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Allison Randal

Allison Randal is a Debian and Ubuntu developer, specializing in C and
dynamic languages (Perl/Python/Ruby/etc). She is on the board of
directors of the Python Software Foundation and The Perl Foundation,
co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations "self-help group" for free software
leaders, founder and president of Onyx Neon Press, and Open Source
Advisor to Canonical. Her current hobby is astrophysics.