Outreachy Alums, December 2018 to March 2019

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Outreachy December 2018 to March 2019 Interns

45 interns were selected for this cohort.

Ceph

Tina Kallio

Location: Stockholm, Sweden
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Tinatinak

Ceph mentor(s): Lenz Grimmer
Project: Create an automatic REST API documentation based on Python docstrings
Project skills:

CNCF OpenTelemetry

Gaby Soria

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
IRC/Chat/Forum username: gabys

CNCF OpenTelemetry mentor(s): Juraci Paixão Kröhling
Project: Create a set of performance tests
Project skills: Go, Java, Quality Engineering

Debian

Anastasia Tsikoza

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Saint Petersburg, Russia
IRC/Chat/Forum username: moonkin

Debian mentor(s): Paul Wise and Raju Devidas
Project: Improve integration of Debian derivatives with Debian infrastructure and community
Project skills: Django, Git, Makefiles, Python, Shell, SQL

Fedora

Lenka Seg

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Barcelona, Spain
IRC/Chat/Forum username: lenka

Fedora mentor(s): Aleksandra Fedorova
Project: Create CLI tool to interact with Pagure pull-requests API
Project skills: Git, Interacting with REST APIs, Python

Git

Tanushree Tumane

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Git mentor(s): Christian Couder and Johannes Schindelin
Project: Improve `git bisect`
Project skills: Bash scripting, C, Git

Slavica Đukić

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Git mentor(s): Johannes Schindelin
Project: Turn `git add -i` into a built-in
Project skills: C, or a C-like language such as Javascript, It will be a bonus if the student has managed to build Git from source, Perl

GNOME

Teja Cetinski

Pronouns: she/her/hers
IRC/Chat/Forum username: tejac

GNOME mentor(s): Daniel García Moreno
Project: Create Gtranslator initial integration with Damned Lies
Project skills: C, Django, Gtk+

Maira kodama

Pronouns: they/them/theirs
Location: Curitiba - PR, Brazil
IRC/Chat/Forum username: mairandomness

GNOME mentor(s): Daniel García Moreno
Project: Extend Fractal media viewer with video support and explore video conference
Project skills: Gstreamer or video library knowledge, Gtk+, Rust

Clarissa Lima Borges

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Brasil

GNOME mentor(s): Jim Hall
Project: GNOME Usability Testing
Project skills: Independent learner (willing to learn by reading web articles, under guidance of a mentor), Usability testing

GNU Guix

Laura Lazzati

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
IRC/Chat/Forum username: lsl88

GNU Guix mentor(s): Gábor Boskovits and Björn Höfling
Project: Create user video documentation for GNU Guix
Project skills: Ability to select important/relevant information, Communication skills, Documentation

Jenkins

David Olorundare

Location: Illinois, USA
IRC/Chat/Forum username: mide

Jenkins mentor(s): Matt Sicker and Jeff Thompson
Project: Add audit logging to Jenkins
Project skills: Apache Maven, Git, Java

Latha

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Tamil Nadu, India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: LathaGuna

Jenkins mentor(s): Matt Sicker and Jeff Thompson
Project: Add audit logging to Jenkins
Project skills: Apache Maven, Git, Java

JupyterHub

Georgiana D.

Location: Bucharest, Romania

JupyterHub mentor(s): Yuvi Panda and Min Ragan-Kelley
Project: Highly available JupyterHub proxy with Traefik
Project skills: Asynchronous programming, Python

Leticia Portella

Pronouns: she/her/hers
IRC/Chat/Forum username: leportella

JupyterHub mentor(s): Yuvi Panda and Min Ragan-Kelley
Project: JupyterHub-native user management system
Project skills: Python, Tornado Web Framework

Kubernetes

Eduar Tua

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Monterrey - Mexico
IRC/Chat/Forum username: eduartua

Kubernetes mentor(s): Paris Pittman
Project: Revamp Kubernetes Developer Guide
Project skills: Git, Go, how an API works and high level understanding of kubernetes

LibreHealth

Virginia Balseiro

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Uruguay

LibreHealth mentor(s): Toni Shortsleeve
Project: Create Multilingual User Documentation of the LibreHealth EHR (Electronic Health Record)
Project skills: Healthcare office or clinical processes, Multilingual: conversational English and post- secondary literacy in native language

Linux Kernel

Dafna Hirschfeld

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Tel-Aviv, Israel
IRC/Chat/Forum username: dafna

Linux Kernel mentor(s): Helen Koike and Hans Verkuil
Project: Adding support for stateless codecs in the Virtual Codec Driver (vicodec)
Project skills: Command line, C programming language and notions of data structures (arrays, lists, hashes, etc), Notions of operating systems, concurrency (locks, semaphores, mutex), object oriented programming

Shayenne Moura

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: São Paulo/Brazil
IRC/Chat/Forum username: shayenne

Linux Kernel mentor(s): Daniel Vetter and Rodrigo Siqueira
Project: dri-devel aka kernel GPU subsystem (2 internships)
Project skills: C, Interest in low-level hardward programming and GPU/graphics

Mamta Shukla

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Maharashtra,India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Mamta_

Linux Kernel mentor(s): Manasi Navare and Harry Wentland
Project: dri-devel aka kernel GPU subsystem (2 internships)
Project skills: C, Interest in low-level hardward programming and GPU/graphics

Gizzy d'Rast

Pronouns: they/them/theirs

Linux Kernel mentor(s): Haiyang Zhang
Project: Enhance graphic experiences for Linux VMs on Hyper-V
Project skills: C, Operating system concepts

Maya Nakamura

Location: Seattle, WA, U.S.A.

Linux Kernel mentor(s): Michael Kelley and Long Li and Sasha Levin
Project: Improve Linux kernel support for running as a guest on the Hyper-V hypervisor (2 internships)
Project skills: C or C++ programming, Operating system concepts, Virtualization and hypervisor concepts

K. Brown

Location: United States

Linux Kernel mentor(s): Michael Kelley and Long Li and Sasha Levin
Project: Improve Linux kernel support for running as a guest on the Hyper-V hypervisor (2 internships)
Project skills: C or C++ programming, Operating system concepts, Virtualization and hypervisor concepts

Mozilla

Syeda Aimen Batool

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
IRC/Chat/Forum username: aimen

Mozilla mentor(s): Armen and Dustin J. Mitchell and Sarah Clements
Project: Extend ReactJS graphing tool
Project skills: ChartJS, JavaScript, React

Skanda B.K.

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Bangalore, Karnataka,India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Skanda

Mozilla mentor(s): Corey Dow-Hygelund and Ben Miroglio
Project: Identifying Abnormal User Behavior in Firefox
Project skills: Python or R

Lenka Pelechova

Location: Bratislava, Slovakia

Mozilla mentor(s): Jan Honza Odvarko
Project: Implement support for resizeable columns for Network panel in Firefox Developer Tools
Project skills: Contributing to the Mozilla code base, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React and Redux

Eva D

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Milton Keynes
IRC/Chat/Forum username: edieblu

Mozilla mentor(s): Julien Wajsberg
Project: Improve accessibility in https://perf-html.io
Project skills: CSS, JavaScript, React

Shivangi Kakkar

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: shivie

Mozilla mentor(s): Luke C and Jonathan Kingston
Project: Improve Firefox Containers Add-ons
Project skills: Browser Add-on/Extension Development, Git and GitHub, JavaScript, HTML, CSS

Trang T.H Nguyen

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
IRC/Chat/Forum username: TrangEmily

Mozilla mentor(s): Andrew Halberstadt
Project: Improve usefulness and useability of Mozilla's data warehouse front-end
Project skills: JavaScript, Linux systems administration, Python

Mariana Meireles

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Berlin
IRC/Chat/Forum username: marimeireles

Mozilla mentor(s): Mike Taylor and Karl Dubost
Project: Improving rendering performance of webcompat.com
Project skills: Git and GitHub, JavaScript, Python

Shiwani

Location: India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: shivani18

Mozilla mentor(s): Rachel McGuigan and Lizz Noonan and Madalina
Project: Mozilla Support Community Onboarding Developer Internship
Project skills: Ability to follow Brand Guidelines, Github command line knowledge, Google Optimize knowledge, Django familiarity, Amazon Web Services knowledge, and minor experience in SEO, Usability Testing, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Django, Docker

Johanna Herman

Location: London, United Kingdom

Mozilla mentor(s): Marcos Caceres
Project: Standardization of Web Application APIs
Project skills: English, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, Quality assurance (testing)

Kristin Taylor

Location: Austin, TX, USA

Mozilla mentor(s): Matt Wobensmith
Project: UI/UX web design for a new Mozilla automation project
Project skills: Ability to design or conceptualize a web interface, Git, JavaScript and HTML

Kris Thayer

Location: Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Mozilla mentor(s): Teon L Brooks and Megan McCorquodale
Project: User Classification/ Heavy User Project
Project skills: Python or R

mUzima

Zita Reiner

Location: Stevenage, Egyesült Királyság

mUzima mentor(s): Ada Yeung and Benard Mokaya and samuel owino
Project: Design and Coding
Project skills: Android, Java, XML

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mUzima mentor(s): Ada Yeung and Simon Savai
Project: Design and Create Tutorial and Marketing Videos
Project skills: Documentation, Graphic Design, Video Creation and Editing

Open Bioinformatics Foundation

Deepashree Deshmukh

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Pune, India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: kushinauwu

Open Bioinformatics Foundation mentor(s): Yo Yehudi
Project: Redesign Open Bioinformatics Foundation Website and implement in CMS
Project skills: CSS, HTML, WordPress

OpenStack

Dhanuka

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Sri Lanka
IRC/Chat/Forum username: dhanuka

OpenStack mentor(s): Ilya Etingof and Dmitry Tantsur
Project: Create Redfish Ansible module
Project skills: Ansible, Python, Redfish

Islam Musleh

Location: Savannah, GA
IRC/Chat/Forum username: imus

OpenStack mentor(s): Colleen Murphy and Kristi Nikolla
Project: Improve OpenStack Keystone API Unit Tests
Project skills: Git, Python

Erus

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
IRC/Chat/Forum username: erus

OpenStack mentor(s): Colleen Murphy and Kristi Nikolla
Project: Improve OpenStack Keystone Federation Operator Experience
Project skills: Git, interest in security and protocols, Python

Public Lab

Cess Wairimu

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
IRC/Chat/Forum username: cess

Public Lab mentor(s): Jeffrey Warren and Sagarpreet Chadha and Sidharth Bansal and Gaurav Sachdeva
Project: Extend community collaboration statistics and visualization system for PublicLab.org
Project skills: Git and GitHub, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails

Wikimedia

Gueleu S. Farida

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Douala, Littoral, Cameroun
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Dialo_

Wikimedia mentor(s): Subbu Sastry
Project: Add a new Linter category for Wikimedia wikis
Project skills: DOM / HTML, Experience with PHP or node.js, Wikitext

T.Crespy

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Buea, South West Region, Cameroon

Wikimedia mentor(s): Sage Ross and Pratyush Singhal and Urvashi Verma
Project: Create an event setup wizard for Programs & Events Dashboard
Project skills: React, Ruby, User interface (UI)

Marty Hernandez Avedon

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: New York, NY

Wikimedia mentor(s): Srishti Sethi and Sarah R.
Project: MediaWiki Action API: Documentation improvements to the top 50 most viewed API pages on-wiki
Project skills: Collaboration tools (Github, Phabricator, etc), Python, Wiki editing (writing templates, creating and managing translatable pages, etc)

Giselle J

Pronouns: they/them/theirs
Location: United States

Wikimedia mentor(s): Etonkovidova
Project: QA: Automation Testing - port Echo Notification tests to Node.js
Project skills: Basic programming skills - any programming language, Be familiar with Selenium automation framework, Command line

BarbV

Location: SF Bay Area
IRC/Chat/Forum username: barbv

Wikimedia mentor(s): Rummana Yasmeen and Etonkovidova
Project: Quality Assurance: Improve and increase test coverage for various Wikimedia projects
Project skills: Documentation, Methodological approach to find the steps that ensure replicating an issue consistently, Observation skill for identifying UI glitches

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