Audrey Tang
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| Audrey Tang | |
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| Chinese name | |
| Simplified: | 唐凤 (orig. 唐宗汉) |
| Traditional: | 唐鳳 (orig. 唐宗漢) |
| Hanyu Pinyin: | Táng Fèng (orig. Táng Zōnghàn) |
| Wade-Giles: | T'ang2 Fêng4 (orig T'ang2 Tsung1-han4) |
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, he dropped out of high school, as he was unable to adapt to student life.[1] By the year 2000, at the age of 19, he had already held positions in software companies, and worked in California's Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur.[2] In late 2005, he underwent sex reassignment surgery and changed both his English and Chinese names. Taiwan's Eastern Television reports that she has an IQ of 180.[1] She is a vocal proponent for autodidacticism and individualist anarchism.[citation needed]
[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;[3] 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.[4] She is also responsible for setting up smoke test and digital signature systems for CPAN.[citation needed] In October 2005, she was a speaker at O'Reilly Media's European Open Source Convention in Amsterdam.[5]
[edit] Publications
- Aker, Brian; Krieger, David; Chen Wei-hung, Chang Chih-jung, Huang Chun-ying, Lin Chih-pin, Lin Ke-huan, Liu Kang-min, Tang Chung-han, Weng Chien-ting (translators) (November 2003). 架設 Slash 社群網站 (Running Weblogs with Slash) (in Chinese). Taipei, Taiwan: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 986-7794-22-2.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Chen, Chun-ming. "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)", Eastern Television, 2006-02-08. Retrieved on March 22, 2007.
- ^ a b c Li, Hsin-ru. "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), 2000-06-28. Retrieved on March 22, 2007.
- ^ A Plan for Pugs. Perl.com (O'Reilly Media) (2005-03-03). Retrieved on March 22, 2007.
- ^ Author page for autrijus. CPAN.org. Retrieved on March 22, 2007.
- ^ Perl Internationalization and Haskell: an interview with Autrijus Tang. Perl.com (O'Reilly Media) (2005-09-08). Retrieved on March 23, 2007.
[edit] External links
- Audrey's Pugs Journal and Personal Blog.
- An interview with Autrijus by Debby (in Mandarin)
- Podcast interview with Audrey on Perlcast
- Perl Archive Toolkit
