She works with a youth groups and has helped Oxford City Council run an anti-HBT bullying initiative. She runs several initiatives to support LGBTQA+ visibility and diversity in STEM. In 2018, Baker gave the TEDx talk entitled "Why we need to build trust to create diversity in institutions".
Audrey Tang (18 April 1981, Taiwanese, non-binary)
They are a politician and free software programmer who served as the first Minister of Digital Affairs of Taiwan from Aug 2022 to May 2024.They are the first transgender person and the first non-binary gender official in the top executive cabinet.
Tang has identified as "post-gender" and accepts "whatever pronoun people want to describe me with online. They are a leader of the Haskell and Perl programming language communities, and is the core member of g0v.
Initially, she coded in pencil and paper because she didn't have a computer. She began to learn Perl at age 12. 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.
Tang initiated and led the Pugs project, a project to implement the Perl 6 language. Tang also made contributions to internationalization and localization efforts for several free software projects.
During their time in the Taiwanese government, they have fostered initiatives to fight misinformation in social media and provide access to non-windows computers to the administration systems.
Continuing with what we have informally called our "gayllery", today we move on to actual active KDE and @gnome contributors, starting with...
Meet Florian Müllner! (he/him)🏳️🌈 gay GNOME contributor.
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Florian started contributing around 2009, as he said if his contribution was a person, it would be aproaching voting age right now. He contributes to gnome-shell, but also mutter, gnome-shell-extensions, polari. In addtion, as he has been around for a while, there's the occasional contribution to other bits and pieces around GNOME (GTK, control-center, gnome-settings-daemon, ...).
Florian finds GNOME a great community that welcomed him with open arms (once he dared to make the jump). He found some real friends over time.
There is also the mission. Providing a computing platform that is driven by vision and need rather than monetization opportunities and a strive for market domination is as important as it ever was.
Last but not least, when GNOME builds an OS "for everyone", that includes him. When GNOME gets better, so does his computing experience.
He likes all kinds of physical activity — walking, hiking, riding a bike. During the pandemic, he got hooked on variant sudoku, and it has been part of his daily routine ever since.
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I also like to write stuff in my blog: https://akselmo.dev/
Contributions to KomoDo are welcome, if there's anything specific: https://invent.kde.org/utilities/komodo
Then you can check my other projects: https://sr.ht/~akselmo/
And I have my games too: https://akselmo.itch.io/
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Meet Federico Mena Quintero (he/him --- @federicomena ) a bi/pan @gnome developer.
He is one of GNOME's founders! 😀 So, he has been around since 1996 or so.
Federico has contributed to a bunch of modules in GNOME - gnome-libs, gnome-panel, GTK, Midnight Commander, gnome-canvas, Evolution, Nautilus. Currently he maintains librsvg.
produce software infrastructure for "everyone". In his own words, "It is heartwarming to see this infra get used in countries like mine (Mexico), without having to ask permission or pay megacorps to use their products. And now that we are setting up the infrastructure like Flathub, this should open similar doors to independent app developers."
@kde @gnome @fmuellner Bist du der Entwickler der besten Gnome-Extentions weltweit.?
Wenn ja danke vielmals du rettest die Gnome Shell vor dem Untergang ;-)
