Outreachy Alums, December 2020 to March 2021

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Outreachy December 2020 to March 2021 Interns

52 interns were selected for this cohort.

ASF

Maria Podorvanova

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Canberra, Australia

ASF mentor(s): John Mora and Carlos Muñoz and djkevincr and madhawa
Project: Add a datastore for Elasticsearch in Apache Gora
Project skills: ElasticSearch, Java programming, NoSQL

Gaby Ortiz

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Azuay, Ecuador

ASF mentor(s): John Mora and Carlos Muñoz and djkevincr and madhawa
Project: Add a datastore for Neo4j in Apache Gora
Project skills: Java programming, Neo4j, NoSQL

Tashiya Menuri

Location: Sri-Lanka
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Tashiya Menuri

ASF mentor(s): djkevincr and ming and Ayeshmantha Perera
Project: Create RabbitMQ publisher plugin for Apache APISIX
Project skills: lua, Message brokers

Mujuzi Moses Tusha

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Kampala, Uganda
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Mujuzi

ASF mentor(s): djkevincr and Gang Li
Project: Extend Backend API to Query all up and downstream dependencies of the task - Apache Dolphinscheduler
Project skills: java

Segun Ogundipe

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Segun

ASF mentor(s): djkevincr and Gang Li and Lidong Dai
Project: Extend multiple sql statement query for SQL task - Apache Dolphinscheduler
Project skills: java, javascript

Audrey Ndum

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Buea, Cameroon
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Audrey

ASF mentor(s): Nasser Kaze
Project: Update and Upgrade Fineract CN
Project skills: Git, Java, Spring

CNCF OpenTelemetry

Ashmita Bohara

Location: Nepal

CNCF OpenTelemetry mentor(s): Juraci Paixão Kröhling
Project: Jupyter notebooks repository
Project skills: Any programming language supported by Jupyter, Data science

Fedora

Ella Daniels

Pronouns: they/them/theirs
Location: Tel Aviv, Israel

Fedora mentor(s): Marie Nordin
Project: Develop & Design a Fedora Zine
Project skills: Graphic Design, Print Media, Project Management

Richard Gregory

Location: Port Harcourt, NGA
IRC/Chat/Forum username: richardgreg

Fedora mentor(s): Sarah Finn and pingou
Project: Enable CI/CD of content to Fedora docs site
Project skills: Containers, Kubernetes, Python

Shreya Gupta

Location: India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: shreya11

Fedora mentor(s): Fernando Fernandez Mancera
Project: Implement new features on Nmstate and Nispor
Project skills: Linux, Python, Rust

Free Software Foundation

Rukkykf

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: rukkykofi

Free Software Foundation mentor(s): Ian Kelling and Andrew Engelbrecht
Project: Code in PHP to help nonprofits accept and manage cryptocurrency donations
Project skills: GNU + Linux system administration, Implementing an API, PHP

Git

Joey Salazar

Location: Costa Rica
IRC/Chat/Forum username: JSal

Git mentor(s): Jonathan Nieder and Emily Shaffer
Project: Add Git protocol support to Wireshark
Project skills: C language, Network protocols

Charvi Mendiratta

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Faridabad, Haryana, India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: charvi077

Git mentor(s): Christian Couder and Phillip Wood
Project: Improve droping and rewording commits in Git interactive rebase
Project skills: C language, Git, Shell scripting

GNOME

Amanda Shafack

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Buea, Cameroon
IRC/Chat/Forum username: lkmandy

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

Mantoh Nasah Kuma

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Cameroon

GNOME mentor(s): Philip Chimento
Project: Improve the Debugging Experience in GNOME's JavaScript Engine
Project skills: C++, Git, JavaScript

GNU Guix

Magali L. Sacramento

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: São Paulo

GNU Guix mentor(s): Simon Tournier and Gábor Boskovits
Project: Add a subcommand showing GNU Guix history of all packages
Project skills: Guile Scheme, Knowledge of a programming language, Linux

InterMine

Hanan Younes

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Waterloo, ON
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Hanan

InterMine mentor(s): Rachel Lyne and Kevin Herald
Project: Create InterMine user training docs
Project skills: English Language

M Sanni

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: SanniM3

InterMine mentor(s): Daniela Butano and sergio contrino
Project: Review, update, and integrate InterMine developer documentation
Project skills: English Language

Linux Kernel

Sumera Priyadarsini

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

Linux Kernel mentor(s): Daniel Vetter and Melissa Wen
Project: dri-devel aka kernel GPU subsystem
Project skills: C

Mixxx DJ Software

Aanyu Deborah Oduman

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Uganda
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Aanyu Deborah Oduman

Mixxx DJ Software mentor(s): Owen Williams
Project: Improve User Manual
Project skills: DJing, English Writing, Technical documentation writing

Mozilla

Alaa Emad

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Egypt
IRC/Chat/Forum username: AlaaEmad

Mozilla mentor(s): Botond Ballo and Timothy Nikkel
Project: Add Linux touchpad support for desktop zooming
Project skills: C++, Javascript, Linux graphical APIs

Nina Pypchenko

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Mozilla mentor(s): Jonathan and Kelvin
Project: Create User Interface for Pocket’s Curated Articles Tool
Project skills: HTML & CSS, JavaScript, React specifically using create-react-app CLI application, Typescript, Version control tool: Git

Linh Nguyen

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Sunnyvale, California
IRC/Chat/Forum username: linh

Mozilla mentor(s): William Lachance and Anthony Miyaguchi
Project: Extend Glean Dictionary
Project skills: Client-server web applications, Git, JavaScript, Python

Richa Sharma

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Mozilla mentor(s): Rob Wu and Luca Greco
Project: Improve Firefox to give users more control over add-ons in Container tabs
Project skills: Firefox extension APIs: WebExtensions, JavaScript, Using version control systems such as Git ; Mercurial

Leli Schiestl

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Berlin

Mozilla mentor(s): Christoph Kerschbaumer
Project: Improve the User Experience of HTTPS-Only Mode
Project skills: A fundamental understanding of the Web Security Model, Sound communication skills in English, Web-Programming

Hasna Hena Mow

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mozilla mentor(s): Nazim Can Altinova and Julien Wajsberg
Project: Make Firefox Profiler more usable for users who don’t speak English
Project skills: JavaScript, React, Using distributed version control systems such as Git

OpenAstronomy - Astropy & SunPy

Tinuade Adeleke

Location: Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Tinu

OpenAstronomy - Astropy & SunPy mentor(s): Brigitta Sipőcz and C.E. Brasseur
Project: Enhancement of infrastructure for a more sustainable astroquery
Project skills: Python, Web query APIs

Kateryna Ivashkiv

Location: Lviv, Ukraine

OpenAstronomy - Astropy & SunPy mentor(s): Stuart Mumford and Kris Akira Stern and Nabil Freij
Project: Performance Monitoring for SunPy and Astropy
Project skills: Benchmarking, Python, System Administration

Open Information Security Foundation

Juliana Fajardini Reichow

Pronouns: she/her/hers
IRC/Chat/Forum username: jufajardini or increible_ju

Open Information Security Foundation mentor(s): Shivani Bhardwaj and Jason Ish and Victor Julien
Project: Convert protocol from C to Rust
Project skills: C, English, Git, Rust

Tharushi Jayasekara

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Sri Lanka

Open Information Security Foundation mentor(s): Shivani Bhardwaj and Jason Ish and Victor Julien
Project: Improve Python tools for Suricata
Project skills: English, Git, Python

OpenStack

T.I. Fasoyin

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: tabbie_fash

OpenStack mentor(s): Maysa de Macedo Souza
Project: Add new IP protocol to Kuryr-Kubernetes
Project skills: Code-review, Python

Dina Saparbaeva

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Karakol, Kyrgyzstan
IRC/Chat/Forum username: disap

OpenStack mentor(s): Victoria Martinez de la Cruz
Project: Add share resize feature to Manila UI
Project skills: Django, Linux system knowledge, Python

Tosin Farai

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Tosin

OpenStack mentor(s): Julia Kreger and Iury Gregory
Project: Extend Ironic's Ansible modules
Project skills: Ansible, Code review, Python

Anuradha

Location: India

OpenStack mentor(s): Iury Gregory and Julia Kreger
Project: Improving Ironic API on OpenStack SDK
Project skills: Python, REST API

paulali

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Kenya
IRC/Chat/Forum username: kiwi_36

OpenStack mentor(s): Victoria Martinez de la Cruz and Goutham Pacha Ravi
Project: Unified limits support in OpenStack Manila
Project skills: BASH, Linux system knowledge, Python

Oppia

Himanshu Taneja

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Kurukshetra, Haryana, India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Himanshu

Oppia mentor(s): Riya Sogani and Diana Chen
Project: Conduct user studies while drafting and implementing a plan for large scale outreach
Project skills: Analytical thinking, Communication in english, Graphic Design, Report Writing

Wala Awad

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Palestine
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Wala'

Oppia mentor(s): Riya Sogani and Diana Chen
Project: Conduct user studies while drafting and implementing a plan for large scale outreach
Project skills: Analytical thinking, Communication in english, Graphic Design, Report Writing

Public Lab

Will Gutierrez

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Oakland, CA, United States

Public Lab mentor(s): Jeffrey Warren
Project: Comment Editor Overhaul Project
Project skills: Ajax, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails

Ruth Waiganjo

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Nairobi,Kenya

Public Lab mentor(s): Jeffrey Warren and Sneha Mishra and Cess Wairimu
Project: New Dashboard Implementation Project: Bootstrap 4 and Rails
Project skills: Bootstrap 4, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails

QEMU

Elena Afanasova

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Russia

QEMU mentor(s): Stefan Hajnoczi and Jag and Elena Ufimtseva
Project: Implement the ioregionfd API in the Linux kvm.ko kernel module
Project skills: C

Tor Project

Maria Violante

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Kalamazoo, MI, USA
IRC/Chat/Forum username: ViolanteCodes

Tor Project mentor(s): Alexander Færøy
Project: Anonymous Ticket Handling
Project skills: Django, Python

Joydeep Sen Gupta

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: New Delhi, India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: championquizzer

Tor Project mentor(s): gaba and Gustavo gus
Project: Help Tor Project support our users
Project skills: Git, User support, Written communication in English

Ushahidi

Renu Jain

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Rajasthan, India

Ushahidi mentor(s): Anna Iosif and Romina
Project: Improve accessibility on the Ushahidi Platform
Project skills: Accessibility, HTML, JavaScript Programming

Wikimedia

Liudmila K

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Moscow, Russia
IRC/Chat/Forum username: lost_enchanter, lostEnchanter

Wikimedia mentor(s): Adam Baso
Project: Analyze community authored functions that build Wikipedia infoboxes and more
Project skills: Python

Aisha Khatun

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Sylhet, Bangladesh
IRC/Chat/Forum username: tanny411, aisha

Wikimedia mentor(s): Adam Baso
Project: Analyze community authored functions that build Wikipedia infoboxes and more
Project skills: Python

Jesse Amamgbu

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: brownre

Wikimedia mentor(s): Isaac Johnson
Project: Build a tool for inferring what countries are associated with a given Wikipedia article
Project skills: Data science, Design, Python

Harshinee Sriram

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Wikimedia mentor(s): Daniyal Abbasi and Chaitanya Mittal
Project: Create a Not Safe for Work (NSFW) media Classifier for Wikimedia Commons
Project skills: APIs, Computer Vision, Python

KayYen Wong

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Malaysia
IRC/Chat/Forum username: kaywong, 0xkaywong

Wikimedia mentor(s): Miriam Redi and Diego Sáez Trumper
Project: Create Machine Learning datasets to measure content reliability on Wikipedia.
Project skills: Data Analysis, Python, SQL

Harriet

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Uganda

Wikimedia mentor(s): Vidhi Mody and Soham Parekh and Željko Filipin
Project: Evaluate Microsoft Playwright as replacement for our browser automation
Project skills: Node.js, Testing

Ogechi O

Location: Lagos Nigeria

Wikimedia mentor(s): Pavithra Eswaramoorthy and Rexx
Project: Review and improve Lua documentation on meta and mediawiki.
Project skills: Lua, Technical writing

Yocto Project

Dorinda Bassey

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: dorinda

Yocto Project mentor(s): Paul Eggleton and Ross Burton
Project: Add support for elfutils debug info server
Project skills: C programming, gdb usage, Yocto Project build environment

Ida Delphine

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Bamenda, Cameroon
IRC/Chat/Forum username: ida, idadel, idadelveloper

Yocto Project mentor(s): Paul Eggleton and Tim Orling
Project: Enhance Yocto Project License Tracing
Project skills: Linux system knowledge, Python

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