Outreachy Alums, December 2021 to March 2022

ASF

Melodie Ezeani

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

ASF mentor(s): Jarek Potiuk and eladkal and Nasser Kaze
Project: Add Open-Telemetry support for Apache Airflow
Project skills: Monitoring running systems, Python

Bowrna

Location: India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Bowrna

ASF mentor(s): Jarek Potiuk and eladkal and Nasser Kaze
Project: Convert Airflow Local Development environment (Breeze) from Bash-based to Python-based
Project skills: BASH, Python

trisha

Location: Sri Lanka
IRC/Chat/Forum username: trisha

ASF mentor(s): djkevincr
Project: Create REST API for Apache Gora functions
Project skills: Java, REST

Nabwegamo Brenda

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Kampala (Uganda)

ASF mentor(s): Clebert Suconic
Project: Implement distributed tracing for Apache ActiveMQ Artemis.
Project skills: Github workflow, Java programming, Reading Specifications

Edith Puclla

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Ayacucho/Peru
IRC/Chat/Forum username: edithpuclla

ASF mentor(s): eladkal and Jarek Potiuk
Project: Rewrite Github Action workflows to Python
Project skills: Bash, CI systems, Python

Chisel

Olushola Ogunkelu

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Lagos, Nigeria.
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Olushola

Chisel mentor(s): Megan Wachs and Deborah Soung
Project: Create Verilog vs Chisel Side-By-Side Comparison on Chisel Website Documentation
Project skills: Markdown, Scala, SystemVerilog

ChRIS Project

Eugine

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Nairobi,Kenya
IRC/Chat/Forum username: EugineLethal

ChRIS Project mentor(s): Máirín Duffy
Project: Improve ChRIS Core User Interface Experience and extend PACS Query React Components
Project skills: HTML CSS, React, Typescript

Common Workflow Language

Dennis Chukwunta

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Benin City, edo state, Nigeria

Common Workflow Language mentor(s): Michael R. Crusoe and Dinithi Wickramaratne and Bruno Kinoshita
Project: Extend WDL to CWL converter
Project skills: Bioinformatics, Parsing, Python coding, Workflows

Confidential Computing Consortium

Jennifer Chukwu

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

Confidential Computing Consortium mentor(s): Niccholas Rodriguez Vidal
Project: Create demos to show how Confidential Computing works
Project skills: C, C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, Rust

Shraddha Inamdar

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Pune, Maharashtra, and India

Confidential Computing Consortium mentor(s): Niccholas Rodriguez Vidal
Project: Create demos to show how Confidential Computing works
Project skills: C, C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, Rust

softdev_ajay

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Basti, Uttar Pradesh, India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: softdev_ajay

Confidential Computing Consortium mentor(s): Niccholas Rodriguez Vidal
Project: Create demos to show how Confidential Computing works
Project skills: C, C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, Rust

Creative Commons

John Wick

Pronouns: he/him/his

Creative Commons mentor(s): Timid Robot Zehta and Brylie Christopher Oxley
Project: Vocabulary - Remove dependency on Bulma
Project skills: CSS, JavaScript, NPM, Sass

Debian

Abiola Ajadi

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Abee

Debian mentor(s): Antonio Terceiro and Pavit Kaur and Paul Gevers
Project: Improve Debian Continuous Integration UX
Project skills: Automated testing, GIT, Ruby, Web Development

Ayoyimika Ajibade

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

Debian mentor(s): Pirate Praveen and Akshay S Dinesh
Project: Nodejs 16 and Webpack 5 transition in Debian
Project skills: Debian Packaging, git version control system, JavaScript Programming

Caleb O.A.

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: @calebpitan

Debian mentor(s): Pirate Praveen and Akshay S Dinesh
Project: Nodejs 16 and Webpack 5 transition in Debian
Project skills: Debian Packaging, git version control system, JavaScript Programming

Eclipse Adoptium

Joan Njeri

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

Eclipse Adoptium mentor(s): Shelley Lambert and Lan Xia and Sophia Guo and Longyu Zhang
Project: AQA External Application Test Enhancements (Codename "Tether")
Project skills: Communication skills, Curiosity, Docker

Azah Norbline

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Douala, Littoral, Cameroon
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Norbline

Eclipse Adoptium mentor(s): Shelley Lambert and Lan Xia and Sophia Guo and Longyu Zhang
Project: AQA External Application Test Enhancements (Codename "Tether")
Project skills: Communication skills, Curiosity, Docker

Lizy

Location: Uganda

Eclipse Adoptium mentor(s): Shelley Lambert and Lan Xia and Sophia Guo and Longyu Zhang
Project: AQA External Application Test Enhancements (Codename "Tether")
Project skills: Communication skills, Curiosity, Docker

Sehrish Aslam

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Gilgit(Pakistan)

Eclipse Adoptium mentor(s): Shelley Lambert and Andrew Leonard and Stewart X Addison
Project: Secure Software Supply Chain Enhancements (Codename "RASPberry")
Project skills: Good communication skills

Fedora

Vanessa Christopher

Location: Bamenda, North-West Region, Cameroon
IRC/Chat/Forum username: vanessa_kris

Fedora mentor(s): Ankur Sinha
Project: Extend and improve NeuroFedora's user consumable artefacts
Project skills: Git version control, RPM packaging, Software development life cycle

Ojong E.

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Cameroon
IRC/Chat/Forum username: ojong

Fedora mentor(s): Onuralp Sezer and Misc
Project: Revamp the community Websites and Applications
Project skills: CSS3, HTML5, Python 3

Subhangi Choudhary

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Jharsuguda, Odisha, India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Subhangi

Fedora mentor(s): Akashdeep Dhar and Francois Andrieu
Project: Revamp web application to aggregate and distribute IRC meeting minutes and logs
Project skills: HTML5 & CSS3, JavaScript, Python 3

Firefox

Claudia Batista

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Berlin, Germany
IRC/Chat/Forum username: claubatista

Firefox mentor(s): Hubert Boma Manilla and Jan Honza Odvarko
Project: Firefox DevTools HTTP Edit & Resend
Project skills: JavaScript, React, Version control tool: Mercurial

Jane Kotovich

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Coolangatta, Gold Coast, Australia

Firefox mentor(s): Marco Bonardo and Mark Banner
Project: Improve reliability of the Firefox Bookmark dialogs
Project skills: Mercurial version control tool, Modern JavaScript including promises

Shazib Summar

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Lahore, Pakistan
IRC/Chat/Forum username: yamero

Firefox mentor(s): David Parks
Project: Modernize use of Microsoft COM objects
Project skills: C++ programming language, Microsoft COM, Reference counted objects

Chidinma Afamefuna

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: United Kingdom
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Chidinma

Firefox mentor(s): Joel Maher and Andrew Halberstadt
Project: Simplifying the process of migrating tests with tools
Project skills: Javascript, Python programming

Galaxy Community

Afolabi Rahmot Omolabake

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Ikotun, Lagos, Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Rahmot

Galaxy Community mentor(s): Bérénice Batut and Assunta DeSanto
Project: Establish Galaxy Community Mentor Network
Project skills: Github Workflow, Markdown, Organization, Spoken communication in English, Version control, Webpage creation, Written communication in English

Chinonye Egenti

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Imo state, Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Chinonye

Galaxy Community mentor(s): Bérénice Batut and Assunta DeSanto
Project: Establish Galaxy Community Mentor Network
Project skills: Github Workflow, Markdown, Organization, Spoken communication in English, Version control, Webpage creation, Written communication in English

Pia H.

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Buenos aires, Argentina

Galaxy Community mentor(s): Anne Fouilloux and Beatriz Serrano-Solano
Project: Improve our onboarding process of new Galaxy communities
Project skills: Analytical thinking, Github Workflow, Markdown, Organization, Report writing, Spoken communication in English, Version control, Written Communication in English

KernelCI

Jeny Sadadia

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

KernelCI mentor(s): Guillaume Tucker and Michał Gałka
Project: Create new KernelCI API
Project skills: NoSQL - Mongo DB, Python, Web technologies

Maryam Yusuf

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Nigeria

KernelCI mentor(s): Nikolai Kondrashov
Project: Improve Unified Kernel Test Result Database System ("KCIDB")
Project skills: Git, Python 3, SQL

Linux Kernel

Karolina Stolarek

Location: Poland
IRC/Chat/Forum username: kdrobnik

Linux Kernel mentor(s): Mike Rapoport
Project: Create memblock simulator
Project skills: C Programming, Makefile, Operating Systems

Mboalab

Bidossessi Emmanuel AGOSSOU

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Benin
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Bidossessi Emmanuel

Mboalab mentor(s): Stephane Fadanka and jafsia elisee
Project: Improve diagnostics of typhoid through Open Science: An Artificial Intelligence-based technique
Project skills: Data collection

Nodira Ibrogimova

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Tashkent, Uzbekistan
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Nodira_Ibrogimova

Mboalab mentor(s): Stephane Fadanka and jafsia elisee
Project: Improve diagnostics of typhoid through Open Science: An Artificial Intelligence-based technique
Project skills: Data collection

moja global

Asmi Jafar

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

moja global mentor(s): Harsh Bardhan Mishra and Anthony Kwaje
Project: Climate change mitigation: entending models of forest carbon pools to new countries
Project skills: Data analysis, Python, Research

David Guevara-Apaza

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Peru
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Davo

moja global mentor(s): Andrew O'Reilly-Nugent
Project: Climate change mitigation: entending models of forest carbon pools to new countries
Project skills: Data analysis, Python, Research

Simple Shell

Pronouns: he/him/his
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Simple Shell

moja global mentor(s): Andrew O'Reilly-Nugent and Anthony Kwaje
Project: Climate change mitigation: entending models of forest carbon pools to new countries
Project skills: Data analysis, Python, Research

OCaml

Jiae Kam

Location: Austria

OCaml mentor(s): Thibaut Mattio
Project: Build a monitoring dashboard for OCaml.org
Project skills: CSS, HTML, OCaml

Aya Sharaf

Location: NY

OCaml mentor(s): Sonja Heinze and Shon
Project: Improve the OCaml meta-programming ecosystem
Project skills: Functional Programming, Knowledge about ASTs, Meta-programming, OCaml, Some statically typed langauge

Sayo Bamigbade

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Florida
IRC/Chat/Forum username: SaySayo

OCaml mentor(s): Thibaut Mattio and Gargi Sharma
Project: Support `.eml` files in OCaml's VSCode extension
Project skills: OCaml

ODK-X

Shey Bazil

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Douala, Cameroon
IRC/Chat/Forum username: test

ODK-X mentor(s): Caroline Krafft and Waylon Brunette and Phebe Temenu and Jeff Beorse
Project: Explore Mapping With Leaflet and Build an Example ODK-X App
Project skills: Android devices, Github, HTML, Java, JavaScript

Shristi Jain

Location: India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Shristi

ODK-X mentor(s): Caroline Krafft and Waylon Brunette and Phebe Temenu and Jeff Beorse and Matt Johnson
Project: Improve ODK-X Sync-Endpoint Documentation
Project skills: Android devices, Docker, Github, Python, Sphinx, Strong writing skills

Love Sparus Otudor

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

ODK-X mentor(s): Caroline Krafft and Waylon Brunette and Phebe Temenu
Project: Update ODK-X’s Tests to most recent Android Testing Framework
Project skills: Android devices, Github, Java

Open Information Security Foundation

Sam Muhammed

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Cairo, Egypt
IRC/Chat/Forum username: ghostinthehive

Open Information Security Foundation mentor(s): Shivani Bhardwaj and Juliana Fajardini Reichow and Victor Julien and Jason Ish
Project: Expose PDU Parser to Suricata Engine
Project skills: C, Git, Rust, Sound communication skills in English

Modupe

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Open Information Security Foundation mentor(s): Shivani Bhardwaj and Juliana Fajardini Reichow and Victor Julien and Jason Ish
Project: Suricata tests! Clean up, simplify, increase coverage
Project skills: C, Git, Rust, Sound communication skills in English, Unit tests

OpenStack

Mahnoor A.

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Islamabad, Pakistan
IRC/Chat/Forum username: MahnoorAsghar

OpenStack mentor(s): Julia Kreger
Project: Auto-Documenting REST API classes for Ironic
Project skills: Code Review, Continuous Delivery of Software, Python 3

Oppia

Julia Falarini

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: São Bernardo do Campo - Brazil

Oppia mentor(s): Caroline Intaschi and Isalo Montacute
Project: Scale Community Outreach and Conduct Research on Oppia's Lessons
Project skills: Analytical thinking, Graphic Design, Report Writing, Written communication in English

Funke Olatunbosun

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Oppia mentor(s): Caroline Intaschi and Isalo Montacute and Melanie Sojourner
Project: Scale Community Outreach and Conduct Research on Oppia's Lessons
Project skills: Analytical thinking, Graphic Design, Report Writing, Written communication in English

Public Lab

Witah Georjane

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Cameroon
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Jane

Public Lab mentor(s): Jeffrey Warren
Project: Rebuilding Spectral Workbench capture and analysis interface
Project skills: JavaScript, Rails

Paul Ibeabuchi

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Public Lab mentor(s): Jeffrey Warren and Tilda Udufo
Project: Refine the Public Lab Rich Editor
Project skills: JavaScript

SecureDrop

Lirika S

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Korce, Albania

SecureDrop mentor(s): Pizza
Project: Add read receipts for journalists using SecureDrop Workstation
Project skills: A programming language like C Java Python, Linux, Virtualization technology

TensorFlow

Shamima Hossain

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Bangladesh
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Shamima

TensorFlow mentor(s): Jason Mayes
Project: Create reusable technical demos for TensorFlow.js
Project skills: CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, Presenting at Events, TensorFlow.js, Tutorial Writing

Tor Project

Miko

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

Tor Project mentor(s): Gustavo gus
Project: Mapping values and motivations of the Tor network's relay operators
Project skills: Data visualization, Technical Writer, User Experience

UNICEF Innovation

Sabine Vidal

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Cape Town, South Africa

UNICEF Innovation mentor(s): Victor Grau Serrat and nfletcher
Project: Create a retraining Machine Learning Classification Model strategy for Kindly to end cyberbullying
Project skills: GitHub, ML, Python

Wikimedia

Alejandro Guerrero

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: British Columbia, Canada

Wikimedia mentor(s): Mike Peel
Project: Automatically matching new Wikipedia articles with Wikidata items using Python
Project skills: Python 3, Wikimedia

Mahfuza Humayra Mohona

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Bangladesh
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Mahfuza Mohona

Wikimedia mentor(s): Mike Peel
Project: Automatically matching new Wikipedia articles with Wikidata items using Python
Project skills: Python 3, Wikimedia

Alexandra Shagzhina

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

Wikimedia mentor(s): Srishti Sethi and Sarah R.
Project: Develop learning toolkits and videos to demonstrate the use of essential tools for Wikimedia
Project skills: Developing presentations, Developing video tutorials

Ivana Novakovic-Lekovic

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Montenegro

Wikimedia mentor(s): Sage Ross
Project: Improve Wikidata support on Programs & Events Dashboard
Project skills: CSS, JavaScript, Ruby

Osama Tahir

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Melbourne

Wikimedia mentor(s): Soham Parekh and Željko Filipin
Project: Refactor WebdriverIO tests from sync to async mode
Project skills: JavaScript, Node.js, WebdriverIO

Zulip

Lauryn Menard

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Barcelona, Spain

Zulip mentor(s): Tim Abbott
Project: Improve the Zulip server and web application
Project skills: CSS, JavaScript, Python 3

Outreachy December 2021 to March 2022 Interns