Audrey Tang

Audrey Tang (2015)

Audrey Tang ( Chinese  唐鳳  /  唐凤 , Pinyin Tang Feng , * 18th April 1981 ; formerly known as Autrijus Tang, formerly Alias autrijus now audreyt ) is a Taiwanese free software - programmer , mainly within the Perl Association of is known as the inventor and main developer of the PAR tool and initiator and leader of the Pugs project. She was involved in a total of over 100 Perl projects, such as the new CPANPLUS module. She introduced smoke tests and digital signatures in the CPAN . Audrey is also a translator of numerous free computer programs and several books from the open source movement into traditional Chinese. As a high school dropout, she is an advocate of self-taught and individual anarchism , which has earned her some attention in the Chinese-language press.

In late 2005, she officially changed her gender and subsequently both her Chinese and her chosen English name.

In 2012 Tang was one of the founders of the free citizen participation platform g0v.tw. On October 1, 2016, she was appointed Minister without a portfolio .

Web links

Commons : Audrey Tang  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Audrey's Pugs Journal and Personal Blog
• List of her work in CPAN up to the end of 2005 and today

Interviews

• perlcast.com: Interview with Audrey Tang , March 29, 2006
• Sven Hansen: “I don't give orders”. In: The daily newspaper . November 1, 2019 (Interview with Audrey Tang). 
• Jan Vollmer: "From hacker to digital minister: this is how Audrey Tang solves political system errors". In: t3n . March 16, 2020 (Interview with Audrey Tang). 

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Audrey Tang: Runtime Typecasting , pugs.blogs.com/audrey, December 25, 2005
2. ↑ First Year of g0v.tw - Dismantling our Government and Building It Anew . Retrieved August 25, 2016.
3. ↑ Alexander U. Mathé: A genius becomes a minister . In: Wiener Zeitung Online . August 25, 2016.