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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

Founder of Changeset Consulting. (In the MeFi Mall!) Current main projects: improving Python packaging and writing grant proposals to help open source projects get funding.

Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. Open source entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, Recurse Center alumna, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software. New York City, heterosexual cisgender, married, without children, born & raised in the US, upper-middle-class, a child of high-caste Hindus, generally ovo-lacto-vegetarian for purposes of large-gathering catering orders, generally friendly.

Into free and open source software and free culture, science fiction, the Mahabharata, tax history, Vienna Teng, the Mountain Goats, Dar Williams, Ellen Ullman, Zen Cho, Ann Leckie, Neal Stephenson, Jon Bois, Lavanya Sankaran, Hari Kondabolu, and hiking and biking.