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  • Microsoft
  • Google
  • Sun Microsystems
  • BT
  • IBM
  • Yahoo! Inc.
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  • Atlassian Software Systems
  • Disney
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  • Etelos
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  • Kablink
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  • MindTouch
  • Mozilla Corporation
  • Novell, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
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  • RightScale
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • Tenth Planet
  • Ticketmaster
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  • White Oak Technologies, Inc.
  • XAware
  • ZDNet

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Allison Randal

Allison Randal

O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Allison Randal is a Program Chair for O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention. Her first geek career was as a research linguist in eastern Africa. But eventually her love of coding drew her away from natural languages to artificial ones. Allison is the architect of Parrot (a virtual machine for dynamic languages), on the board of directors of The Perl Foundation, and founder and president of Onyx Neon.

Sessions

8:45am Wednesday, 07/23/2008
Welcome
Location: Portland Ballroom
Allison Randal (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. ) Moderated by: Allison Randal
Opening remarks. Read more.
2:35pm Thursday, 07/24/2008
Art of Community Lightning Talks
Emerging Topics
 Location: Portland 252
Dawn Foster (Fast Wonder Consulting), Danese Cooper (Open Source Initiative and REvolution Computing), Allison Randal (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), Audrey Eschright (Elevated Rails), Sulamita Garcia (Intel), Nnenna Nwakanma (OSI, nnenna.org), Stormy Peters (GNOME Foundation), Silona Bonewald (League Of Technical Voters), Erinn Clark (.), Zaheda Bhorat (self) Moderated by: Dawn Foster
Given the open source movement, the popularity of social networks, and new tools for collaboration, more people are looking for ways to build community. The Art of Community came about because we wanted to write a book about community using a wiki so that a community could grow around the book. A different author leads each chapter, and you will hear from many of them during these lightning talks. Read more.
OSCON 2008