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Outreachy December 2022 to March 2023 Interns

64 interns were selected for this cohort.

ASF
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Joshua O.

GitHub
Location: Kenya

ASF mentor(s): David Smiley
Project: SOLR-11872 Refactor test infra to work with a managed SolrClient; ditch TestHarness
Project skills: Docker, Java development
Bioconductor
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Beryl Kanali

Blog Twitter GitHub

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Nairobi
IRC/Chat/Forum username: BerylKanali

Bioconductor mentor(s): Wokaty
Project: Convert Sweave vignettes to R Markdown
Project skills: Git, GitHub, R, R Markdown, RStudio
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Atuhurira Kirabo

Blog GitHub

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Kampala

Bioconductor mentor(s): Hervé Pagès
Project: Refactor the BSgenomeForge tools
Project skills: git, GitHub, R package development, R programming, Writing technical documentation
ChRIS Project
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David Sopuruchukwu Obodo

GitHub
Location: Lagos

ChRIS Project mentor(s): Máirín Duffy and Gideon Pinto
Project: Consolidating and making reusable various react UI components from two user interfaces
Project skills: HTML CSS, React, Typescript
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Cynthia Iradukunda

Blog Twitter GitHub

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Rwanda

ChRIS Project mentor(s): Máirín Duffy
Project: Consolidating and making reusable various react UI components from two user interfaces
Project skills: HTML CSS, React, Typescript
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Cornelia Ekpenyong

Blog Twitter GitHub

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

ChRIS Project mentor(s): Jennings Zhang
Project: Research and evaluate search engines for use in the ChRIS project
Project skills: Python
CNCF OpenTelemetry
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Pridhi Arora

Blog GitHub

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Noida, UP, INDIA

CNCF OpenTelemetry mentor(s): Srikanth Chekuri
Project: Add auto instrumentation support for python threading module
Project skills: Python3, Threading, Unit testing
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Ononiwu Maureen Chiamaka

Twitter GitHub

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

CNCF OpenTelemetry mentor(s): Harshita Srinivas and Juraci Paixão Kröhling
Project: Create a Component Generator
Project skills: Building Opentelemetry collector components, CI, Golang
Common Workflow Language
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Ngumih Fien

Twitter GitHub GitLab

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Bamenda, North West, Cameroon

Common Workflow Language mentor(s): Peter Amstutz and Sarah Wait Zaranek
Project: Expanding the CWL User Guide
Project skills: Common Workflow Language (CWL), Git, Python, Technical Writing
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Levai Mackenzie Ágbàrà

Blog Twitter GitHub

Pronouns: they/them/theirs
Location: Delta State
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Levai

Common Workflow Language mentor(s): Peter Amstutz and Sarah Wait Zaranek
Project: Expanding the CWL User Guide
Project skills: Common Workflow Language (CWL), Git, Python, Technical Writing
Creative Commons
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Oritsedere Precious Oghenerukevwe

Blog Twitter GitHub GitLab

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Abuja

Creative Commons mentor(s): Timid Robot Zehta and possumbilities
Project: Refactor CC meta search
Project skills: CSS, Git, GitHub Pages, HTML, JavaScript, JSON, PHP
Debian
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Billy Warren

Blog
Location: Kampala

Debian mentor(s): Santiago R.R. and Iñaki Malerba
Project: Improve Salsa CI
Project skills: Knowledge on Continous Integration, Shell scripting, Using git
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Sandra Uwah

Blog GitHub
Location: Nigeria

Debian mentor(s): Daniel Kahn Gillmor and Pirate Praveen
Project: Prepare OpenPGP.js for distribution in Debian and related operating systems
Project skills: Debian Packaging, JavaScript Programming, OpenPGP
Eclipse Adoptium
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Lumu

Location: Kampala

Eclipse Adoptium mentor(s): Shelley Lambert and Scott Fryer and Haroon Khel
Project: Open Infrastructure Monitoring Configuration (Codename "MonCon")
Project skills: Ansible playbooks, Communication
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Atuhwera Julian

GitHub

Eclipse Adoptium mentor(s): Shelley Lambert and Wen Zhou and Andrew Leonard
Project: Software Bill of Materials Refinements (Codename "SmoothBOM")
Project skills: Docker, Linux system knowledge
Ersilia Open Source Initiative
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Dhanshree Arora

Blog Twitter GitHub

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: India

Ersilia Open Source Initiative mentor(s): Gemma Turon and Miquel Duran-Frigola
Project: Extension of the Ersilia Model Hub, a FOSS platform featuring AI/ML models for biomedical research
Project skills: Python
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PaulineB

Blog Twitter GitHub

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Lagos

Ersilia Open Source Initiative mentor(s): Gemma Turon
Project: Extension of the Ersilia Model Hub, a FOSS platform featuring AI/ML models for biomedical research
Project skills: Python
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Jeevanshi Sharma

Blog Twitter GitHub

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Jeevanshi

Ersilia Open Source Initiative mentor(s): Gemma Turon and Amna Ali
Project: Extension of the Ersilia Model Hub, a FOSS platform featuring AI/ML models for biomedical research
Project skills: Python
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Carolina Caballero

Blog GitHub
Location: Colombia

Ersilia Open Source Initiative mentor(s): Gemma Turon and Adrià Fernández-Torras
Project: Extension of the Ersilia Model Hub, a FOSS platform featuring AI/ML models for biomedical research
Project skills: Python
Fedora
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Tanushree

Blog Twitter GitLab

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: West bengal, India

Fedora mentor(s): Madeline Peck
Project: Create and Design Icons for a Chat System
Project skills: Ideation & Communication, Inkscape, Visual Design Principles
GNOME
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Shinigami

Blog GitHub GitLab
Location: India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Shinigami

GNOME mentor(s): Federico Mena Quintero
Project: Create infrastructure for Performance tracking for librsvg
Project skills: Python, Rust, Shell scripting, Web development
JupyterHub
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Sheila Kahwai

Blog Twitter GitHub
Location: Kenya
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Sheila

JupyterHub mentor(s): Georgiana Dolocan and Sarah Gibson
Project: Create a reusable JupyterHub pytest plugin
Project skills: git, pytest, Python
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Blessing Ogoh Onyowoicho

Blog Twitter GitHub
Location: Lagos, Nigeria

JupyterHub mentor(s): Min Ragan-Kelley and Georgiana Dolocan and Sarah Gibson
Project: Improve Accessibility in JupyterHub
Project skills: git, HTML, web accessibility
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Allan Wasega

Blog Twitter GitHub
Location: Kenya
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Allan

JupyterHub mentor(s): Sarah Gibson and Georgiana Dolocan
Project: Restructure and improve JupyterHub documentation by implementing the Diataxis framework
Project skills: Git version control, Markdown, Written English language
LibreOffice
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Ximena Alcaman

Blog Twitter GitHub GitLab

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Chile

LibreOffice mentor(s): Marina - deneb_alpha - Latini and Jussi Pakkanen
Project: Rework the LibreOffice installer
Project skills: General knowledge on building software, msitools, Python
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Rachael Odetayo

Blog Twitter GitHub GitLab

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

LibreOffice mentor(s): Marina - deneb_alpha - Latini and Jussi Pakkanen
Project: Rework the LibreOffice installer
Project skills: General knowledge on building software, msitools, Python
Linux Kernel
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Deepak

Blog
Location: Gujarat, India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: drv

Linux Kernel mentor(s): Saurabh Sengar and Praveen Kumar
Project: Coccinelle cleanups in the Linux Kernel
Project skills: C, git, Linux Kernel
Mboalab
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Ruqaiya Sattar

Blog Twitter GitHub GitLab

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Sindh, Karachi, Pakistan
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Ruqaiya Sattar

Mboalab mentor(s): jafsia elisee and Stephane Fadanka
Project: improve a digital stethoscope android app
Project skills: Android development, ML
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ABDUL-WADUD MUSA

Blog Twitter GitHub

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

Mboalab mentor(s): Stephane Fadanka
Project: improve a digital stethoscope android app
Project skills: Android development, ML
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Petra Ukeh

Blog Twitter GitHub GitLab

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

Mboalab mentor(s): jafsia elisee and Stephane Fadanka
Project: improve a digital stethoscope android app
Project skills: Android development, ML
ModECI
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kusanele mpofu

Blog Twitter GitHub

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: South Africa

ModECI mentor(s): Padraig Gleeson and Ankur Sinha
Project: Create Jupyter notebooks demonstrating Machine Learning workflows using MDF
Project skills: Jupyter notebooks, ML, Python
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Monsurat Onabajo

Blog Twitter GitHub

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

ModECI mentor(s): Padraig Gleeson and Ankur Sinha
Project: Create Jupyter notebooks demonstrating Machine Learning workflows using MDF
Project skills: Jupyter notebooks, ML, Python
moja global
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Ananyashree

Blog GitHub
Location: Shimla, India

moja global mentor(s): Andrew O'Reilly-Nugent and Simple Shell and Palak Sharma
Project: MLOps for distributed land sector modelling
Project skills: Geospatial analysis, Julia, MLOps, Python, R
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Hien

Blog
Location: Canada

moja global mentor(s): Andrew O'Reilly-Nugent and Amara and Kateryna Derhaus
Project: Research data sources for carbon sequestration in forests
Project skills: Data processing, Julia, Python, R, Research
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Bolu Adesanya


Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Lagos/Nigeria

moja global mentor(s): Andrew O'Reilly-Nugent and Amara and Kateryna Derhaus
Project: Research data sources for carbon sequestration in forests
Project skills: Data processing, Julia, Python, R, Research
NetworkX
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Paula Perez Bianchi

Blog GitHub GitLab
Location: Buenos Aires, CABA, Argentina

NetworkX mentor(s): Mridul Seth and Ross Barnowski
Project: Create Pedagogical Interactive Notebooks for Algorithms Implemented in NetworkX
Project skills: Git, Jupyter, Python
OCaml
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Prisca Chidimma Maduka

Blog GitHub

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Benin city, Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Prisca

OCaml mentor(s): Patrick Ferris and Odinaka Joy
Project: Implement a non-blocking, streaming codec for TopoJSON
Project skills: Functional Programming, Geospatial
ODK-X
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Mbah Redeem Anjoh

Blog Twitter GitHub

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Cameroon
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Redeem Grimm

ODK-X mentor(s): Caroline Krafft and Ben Green and Waylon Brunette
Project: Custom UI components for ODK-X mobile apps
Project skills: Android studio, User interface design
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Godswill Ukpong

Blog Twitter GitHub
Location: Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Caveman

ODK-X mentor(s): Caroline Krafft and Ben Green and Waylon Brunette
Project: Custom UI components for ODK-X mobile apps
Project skills: Android studio, User interface design
Open Information Security Foundation
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Haleema Khan

Blog GitHub

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

Open Information Security Foundation mentor(s): Juliana Fajardini Reichow and Shivani Bhardwaj and Jason Ish and Victor Julien
Project: Add Frame Support to Application Layer Parsers in Suricata
Project skills: C, Git version control, Rust
Open Life Science
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Nneoma Jilaga

Blog Twitter GitHub

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

Open Life Science mentor(s): Yo Yehudi and Ismael Kherroubi Garcia
Project: Re-brand OLS name and materials
Project skills: Graphic Design, Markdown, UX research, Version control, Webpage creation, Written Communication in English
Open Science Community Saudi Arabia (OSCSA)
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Richie

Blog Twitter GitHub

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Benin city, Edo state, Nigeria

Open Science Community Saudi Arabia (OSCSA) mentor(s): Batool Almarzouq and Abdulrahman Alswaji and Meli
Project: Improve the bilinguality and accessibility of OSCSA website
Project skills: back-end web development, Front-end web development, Github workflow
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Goodnews Sandy

Blog GitHub

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

Open Science Community Saudi Arabia (OSCSA) mentor(s): Batool Almarzouq and Abdulrahman Alswaji and Meli
Project: Improve the bilinguality and accessibility of OSCSA website
Project skills: back-end web development, Front-end web development, Github workflow
Oppia
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Aanuoluwapo Adeoti

Blog Twitter

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Nigeria

Oppia mentor(s): Sean Lip and Allan Z
Project: Create effective and engaging online lessons on Basic Science and/or Digital Skills.
Project skills: Clear written communication, Graphic design, Teaching experience, Translating lessons, User research, Writing reports
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Addisalem Degefa


Oppia mentor(s): Sean Lip and Allan Z
Project: Create effective and engaging online lessons on Basic Science and/or Digital Skills.
Project skills: Clear written communication, Graphic design, Teaching experience, Translating lessons, User research, Writing reports
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Erio Crucecia


Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Kampala, Uganda

Oppia mentor(s): Om Khandade
Project: User Research and Go-to-Market activities to increase usage and awareness of Oppia on web and mobile
Project skills: Communication skills, Graphic Design, Report writing, Translating Lessons, User Research, Video Editing
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AISHAT MUIBUDEEN

Blog Twitter GitHub

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

Oppia mentor(s): Olaiwola Bolaji
Project: User Research and Go-to-Market activities to increase usage and awareness of Oppia on web and mobile
Project skills: Communication skills, Graphic Design, Report writing, Translating Lessons, User Research, Video Editing
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Nneoma Pretty Agu

Blog

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Oppia mentor(s): Olaiwola Bolaji and Nmeso
Project: User Research and Go-to-Market activities to increase usage and awareness of Oppia on web and mobile
Project skills: Communication skills, Graphic Design, Report writing, Translating Lessons, User Research, Video Editing
Public Lab
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Segun.A

Blog GitHub

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Public Lab mentor(s): Jeffrey Warren and Cess Wairimu and Tilda Udufo
Project: Improve MapKnitter Lite for mapmaking with aerial photos as a lightweight web service
Project skills: HTML, JavaScript
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malikk

Blog Twitter GitHub

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

Public Lab mentor(s): Jeffrey Warren and Cess Wairimu and Tilda Udufo
Project: Improve MapKnitter Lite for mapmaking with aerial photos as a lightweight web service
Project skills: HTML, JavaScript
QEMU
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amarjargal

Blog GitHub

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

QEMU mentor(s): Stefano Garzarella and Ming Lei
Project: Extend QEMU Storage Daemon, supporting the new Linux's userspace block driver (ublk) framework
Project skills: C programming, Linux user, QEMU source code
Tor Project
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Robertmin

Blog GitHub
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
IRC/Chat/Forum username: HashRate

Tor Project mentor(s): Jeremy Rand and Daniel Kraft
Project: Create Tool to Detect/Prevent Proxy Leaks
Project skills: Go language, Privacy Tech, Using Linux
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Olanma

Blog Twitter GitHub GitLab

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

Tor Project mentor(s): meskio
Project: Extend GetTor to distribute TorBrowser on censored networks over IM and social media
Project skills: Go language
Wagtail
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Starykova Albina

GitHub

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Cyprus

Wagtail mentor(s): Thibaud Colas and Sage Abdullah and Josh Munn
Project: Develop tools to help Wagtail editors create accessible content
Project skills: Accessibility, CSS, Django, HTML, JavaScript
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Damilola Oladele

Blog Twitter GitHub
Location: Nigeria.
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Damilola Oladele

Wagtail mentor(s): Thibaud Colas and Coen and Stephanie Brown and Storm Heg and Jonny Peacock
Project: Improve user guide documentation for Wagtail
Project skills: Information Architecture, Writing technical documentation, Written English language
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Lovelyfin00

Blog Twitter GitHub
Location: Benin city, Edo state and Nigeria

Wagtail mentor(s): Thibaud Colas and Paarth Agarwal and LB
Project: Introduce Stimulus for interactive widgets within Wagtail
Project skills: Accessibility, Accessibility, CSS, Django, HTML, JavaScript, Performance, Security, Security
Wikimedia
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Nicole B

Blog Twitter GitHub

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Bern, Switzerland

Wikimedia mentor(s): Slavina S and Damilare Adedoyin
Project: Create a Web Application for Editing Toolhub Records
Project skills: HTML CSS, Javascript, Python
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Hannah Waruguru Njoroge

Blog Twitter GitHub

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

Wikimedia mentor(s): Slavina S and Damilare Adedoyin
Project: Create a Web Application for Editing Toolhub Records
Project skills: HTML CSS, Javascript, Python
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Sheila W.

Blog GitHub

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

Wikimedia mentor(s): Diego Sáez Trumper and Muniza
Project: Develop a web app for patrolling based on the new ML-based service to predict reverts
Project skills: css, html, Javascript, Python 3
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Kelechukwu Vivian Nwandu

Blog GitHub

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

Wikimedia mentor(s): Éder Porto and Mike Peel
Project: Develop features for Wiki Loves Monuments App
Project skills: Graphic Design, Python programming, SPARQL
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André Rodrigues

Blog GitHub

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Wikimedia mentor(s): Z. Blace and Owen Blacker
Project: Hybrid event production for QueeringWikipedia 2023
Project skills: Free Software literacy, MediaWiki familiarity, streaming media literacy
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Enow Enow

Location: Buea Cameroon

Wikimedia mentor(s): Jay
Project: Rewrite Imagebulk tool to scale up
Project skills: JavaScript, Python programming, VueJS
Zarr
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BRANDON AWA

Blog GitHub
Location: CENTRAL REGION, YAOUNDE CAMEROON

Zarr mentor(s): Sanket Verma and Josh Moore
Project: Create Tutorials for Zarr
Project skills: Git, GitHub, Python programming
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Weddy Gikunda

Blog GitHub

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

Zarr mentor(s): Sanket Verma and Josh Moore
Project: Testing the support and interoperability of Zarr Zip Stores
Project skills: Git GitHub, Python programming, Zarr fundamentals

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