Audrey Tang

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Audrey Tang

Traditional Chinese: 唐鳳
Simplified Chinese: 唐凤
Original name
Traditional Chinese: 唐宗漢
Simplified Chinese: 唐宗汉

Audrey Tang (born April 18, 1981; formerly known as Autrijus Tang) is a Taiwanese free software programmer, who has been described as one of the "ten greats of Taiwanese computing."[1]

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[edit] Biography

Tang showed an early interest in computers, beginning to learn Perl at age 12.[2] Two years later, Tang dropped out of high school, unable to adapt to student life.[1] By the year 2000, at the age of 19, Tang had already held positions in software companies, and worked in California's Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur.[2] In late 2005, she changed both her English and Chinese names from male to female ones and began to live her life as a woman, citing a need to "reconcile [her] outward appearance with [her] self-image".[3] Taiwan's Eastern Television reports that she has an IQ of 180.[1] She is a vocal proponent for autodidacticism[4] and individualist anarchism.[2]

[edit] Free software contributions

Tang is best known for initiating and leading the Pugs project, a joint effort from the Haskell and Perl communities to implement the Perl 6 language;[5] she has also made contributions to internationalization and localization efforts for several Free Software programs, including SVK, Request Tracker (for which she also wrote a large portion of the code) and Slash, as well as heading Traditional Chinese translation efforts for various Open Source-related books.[1][2]

On CPAN, Tang initiated over 100 Perl projects between June 2001 and July 2006, including the popular Perl Archive Toolkit (PAR), a cross-platform packaging and deployment tool for Perl 5.[6] She is also responsible for setting up smoke test and digital signature systems for CPAN.[7] In October 2005, she was a speaker at O'Reilly Media's European Open Source Convention in Amsterdam.[8]

[edit] Publications

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d Chen, Chun-ming (2006-02-08). "別叫我「先生」！　電腦怪傑唐宗漢變性　改名唐鳳 (Don't call me "Mister"! Tang Zonghan changes sex, name now Tang Feng)" (in Chinese). Eastern Television. http://www.ettoday.com/2006/02/08/327-1902964.htm. Retrieved on 2007-03-22. 
  2. ^ a b c d Li, Hsin-ru (2000-06-28). "專題報導 : 尋找台灣自由軟體力量 (Special Report: Searching for the power of Taiwanese free software)". CNet Taiwan). http://taiwan.cnet.com/enterprise/features/0,2000062876,20087861-3,00.htm. Retrieved on 2007-03-22. 
  3. ^ "Audrey Tang's Blog: Runtime Typecasting". December 2005. http://pugs.blogs.com/audrey/2005/12/runtime_typecas.html. Retrieved on 2007-08-04. 
  4. ^ Chen, Bo-nian (2000-06-28). "平淡中見絢爤-李雅卿的教改之路 (Lee Ya-Ching's road toward educational reform)". Epoch Taiwan). http://www.epochtaiwan.com/content_detail.asp?art_id=955. Retrieved on 2007-04-16. 
  5. ^ "A Plan for Pugs". Perl.com (O'Reilly Media). 2005-03-03. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/03/03/pugs_interview.html. Retrieved on 2007-03-22. 
  6. ^ "Author page for autrijus". CPAN.org. http://search.cpan.org/~autrijus/. Retrieved on 2007-03-22. 
  7. ^ "Becoming a CPAN Tester with CPANPLUS". Perl.com (O'Reilly Media). 2002-04-30. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/04/30/cpants.html. Retrieved on 2007-04-14. 
  8. ^ "Perl Internationalization and Haskell: an interview with Autrijus Tang". Perl.com (O'Reilly Media). 2005-09-08. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/09/08/autrijus-tang.html. Retrieved on 2007-03-23. 

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