Audrey Tang

Chinese
pic=AudreyTang060527.jpg
altname=Original name
t=唐鳳|t2=唐宗漢
s=唐凤|s2=唐宗汉
p=Táng Fèng|p2= Táng Zōnghàn
w=T'ang² Fêng⁴|w2=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."cite news |url=http://www.ettoday.com/2006/02/08/327-1902964.htm |date=2006-02-08 |accessdate=2007-03-22 |title=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) |publisher=Eastern Television |last=Chen |first=Chun-ming |language=Chinese]

Biography

Tang showed an early interest in computers, beginning to learn Perl at age 12.cite news|url=http://taiwan.cnet.com/enterprise/features/0,2000062876,20087861-3,00.htm|title=專題報導 : 尋找台灣自由軟體力量 (Special Report: Searching for the power of Taiwanese free software)|date=2000-06-28|accessdate=2007-03-22|last=Li|first=Hsin-ru|publisher=CNet Taiwan)] Two years later, Tang dropped out of high school, unable to adapt to student life. 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. In late 2005, she changed both her English and Chinese names and began to live her life as a woman, citing a need to "reconcile [her] outward appearance with [her] self-image". [cite web|title=Audrey Tang's Blog: Runtime Typecasting |month=December | year=2005 |url=http://pugs.blogs.com/audrey/2005/12/runtime_typecas.html |accessdate=2007-08-04] Taiwan's Eastern Television reports that she has an IQ of 180. She is a vocal proponent for autodidacticismcite news|url=http://www.epochtaiwan.com/content_detail.asp?art_id=955|title=平淡中見絢爤-李雅卿的教改之路 (Lee Ya-Ching's road toward educational reform) |date=2000-06-28 |accessdate=2007-04-16 |last=Chen|first=Bo-nian|publisher=Epoch Taiwan)] and individualist anarchism.

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; [cite web |url=http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/03/03/pugs_interview.html |title=A Plan for Pugs|date=2005-03-03 |publisher=Perl.com (O'Reilly Media) |accessdate=2007-03-22] 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.

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. [cite web |url=http://search.cpan.org/~autrijus/|title=Author page for autrijus |publisher=CPAN.org |accessdate=2007-03-22] She is also responsible for setting up smoke test and digital signature systems for CPAN. [cite web |url=http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/04/30/cpants.html |title=Becoming a CPAN Tester with CPANPLUS |date=2002-04-30 |publisher=Perl.com (O'Reilly Media) |accessdate=2007-04-14] In October 2005, she was a speaker at O'Reilly Media's European Open Source Convention in Amsterdam. [cite web |url=http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/09/08/autrijus-tang.html |title=Perl Internationalization and Haskell: an interview with Autrijus Tang |date=2005-09-08 |accessdate=2007-03-23 |publisher=Perl.com (O'Reilly Media)]

Publications

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References

External links

* Audrey's [http://pugs.blogs.com/ Pugs Journal] and [http://pugs.blogs.com/audrey/ Personal Blog] .
* [http://debby.dyndns.info/archives/005857.html An interview with Autrijus by Debby] (in Mandarin)
* [http://perlcast.com/2006/03/29/interview-with-audrey-tang/ Podcast interview with Audrey on Perlcast]
* [http://par.perl.org/ Perl Archive Toolkit]