HP's Allison Randal on the Tipping Point for Open Source

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Channel: O'Reilly · 2015 · Science & Technology

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From OSCON 2015, Hewlett-Packard's Distinguished Technologist on the history and evolution of companies embracing open source.

ABout Allison Randal:
Allison Randal is a software developer and open source strategist, currently working on open source strategy at HP. She is president of the Open Source Initiative, board member at the Perl Foundation, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundation’s group for open source leaders. Allison previously served as president of the Perl Foundation, chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine and chairman of the board at the Parrot Foundation, board member at the Python Software Foundation, open source evangelist and OSCON conference chair at O’Reilly Media, technical architect of Ubuntu, and open source advisor at Canonical. She collaborates in the Debian and OpenStack projects.

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