his contributions to the open source community.</p>

<h2>Allison Randal</h2>

<p>Over the course of multiple decades as a free software developer,

Allison has worked in a wide variety of projects and domains, from

games, linguistic analysis tools, websites, mobile apps, shipping

fulfillment, and talking smart-home appliances, to programming language

design, compilers, hypervisors, containers, deployment automation,

database replication, and operating systems.</p>

<p>She is a board member at the Perl Foundation, a board member at the

OpenStack Foundation, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for

free software community leaders. At various points in the past she has

served as president of the Open Source Initiative, president of the Perl

Foundation, board member of the Python Software Foundation, chairman of

the Parrot Foundation, chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine,

Open Source Evangelist at O’Reilly Media, conference chair of OSCON,

Technical Architect of Ubuntu, Open Source Advisor at Canonical,

Distinguished Technologist and Open Source Strategist at HP, and

Distinguished Engineer at SUSE. She collaborates in the Debian project,

and is currently taking a mid-career research sabbatical at the

University of Cambridge.</p>

<p>Tony currently serves as the Deputy General Counsel for

    the <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Home">Wikimedia

    Foundation</a>, where he manages the day-to-day operations of Wikimedia's

    legal department, and provide specific expertise on free and open source

    licensing, intellectual property, non-profit law, and privacy matters.

    Tony is also an organizer of

    Conservancy's <a href="https://outreachy.org">Outreachy</a> project,

    which provides paid internships in free and open source for people from

    groups traditionally underrepresented in tech.  Prior to joining

    Wikimedia, Tony served as General Counsel (and “Employee #2”)

    of Software Freedom Conservancy for over six years.  Tony has also spent

    time in the private sector with PCT Law Group and Kenyon & Kenyon, and as

    an intellectual property licensing and business development professional

    with IBM.  Tony received an O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2017.  Tony is

    an active participant in and supporter of the non-profit community, and

    lives in the Bay Area with his family.</p>

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