Allison Randal
Dr. Allison Randal is a free software and open hardware developer and strategist. She is chair of the board at Software Freedom Conservancy, board member at LLVM Foundation, governing board member at CHERI Alliance and OpenInfra Foundation, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group.
In the past three decades, she has served as president of Open Source Initiative, board chair at OpenInfra Foundation, president at Perl Foundation, board member at Python Software Foundation, board chair at Parrot Foundation, and technical architect of Ubuntu. She collaborates in the Debian, RISC-V, and CHERI projects, has a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and currently works on Linux and open hardware at Capabilities Limited.
Session
Open Source is software, hardware, a community, a development methodology, a resource, a charity, a business, a philosophy, and more than the sum of its parts. This reflection on decades of engagement in free and open source software and open hardware mixes a dash of history with an ounce of hope for the future.