Outreachy Alums, May 2021 to August 2021

ASF

Rakhi Kumari

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Aligarh, India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Rakhi, dreampearl

ASF mentor(s): Justin Ross
Project: Implement distributed tracing for Qpid Proton C++
Project skills: C++ programming language, Network programming, Reading protocol specifications

Ceph

Melissa Li

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Toronto, Canada

Ceph mentor(s): Sebastian Wagner
Project: Replace cephadm's SSH python libarary
Project skills: Python programming, Using distributed version control systems such as Git

ChRIS Project

Sony Lomo

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Kenya

ChRIS Project mentor(s): Máirín Duffy and Jennings Zhang
Project: Create front end components to enable medical image retrieval on the ChRIS platform
Project skills: HTML CSS, React, Typescript

Alisamar Husain

IRC/Chat/Forum username: zrthxn

ChRIS Project mentor(s): Máirín Duffy and Jennings Zhang
Project: Create front end components to enable medical image retrieval on the ChRIS platform
Project skills: HTML CSS, React, Typescript

CNCF OpenTelemetry

Harshita Srinivas

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: New Delhi, India

CNCF OpenTelemetry mentor(s): Juraci Paixão Kröhling and Gaby Soria
Project: Performance comparison between OpenTelemetry and OpenTracing instrumentation libraries
Project skills: Java

Common Workflow Language

Dinithi Wickramaratne

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Sri Lanka - Colombo

Common Workflow Language mentor(s): Peter Amstutz and Michael R. Crusoe
Project: Create a translator from Workflow Definition Language (WDL) to Common Workflow Language (CWL)
Project skills: Bioinformatics, Parsing, Python programming, Workflows

seki

Pronouns: he/him/his

Common Workflow Language mentor(s): Peter Amstutz and Michael R. Crusoe
Project: Improve the Common Workflow Language (CWL) Viewer web app
Project skills: Java, MongoDB, Workflows

conda-forge

Mahé

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: New Delhi, India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Mahe

conda-forge mentor(s): Vinicius Douglas Cerutti
Project: Documenting the conda-forge ecosystem
Project skills: GitHub workflow: fork-branch-PR, Python

Debian

'Tunji

IRC/Chat/Forum username: thegodtune

Debian mentor(s): Pirate Praveen and Akshay S Dinesh and Paolo Greppi
Project: Create a yarn plugin to resolve node modules installed via apt
Project skills: Debian Packaging, Node.js

Nkwuda Sunday

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

Debian mentor(s): Pirate Praveen and Akshay S Dinesh and Paolo Greppi
Project: Create a yarn plugin to resolve node modules installed via apt
Project skills: Debian Packaging, Node.js

Eclipse Adoptium

Asjad

Location: New Delhi, India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: 2001asjad

Eclipse Adoptium mentor(s): Shelley Lambert and Longyu Zhang and Lan Xia and Sophia Guo
Project: Deep Learning for AQA Test Triage (Codename ‘Deep AQAtik’)
Project skills: Curiosity, Good communication skills, Python

Sayani Mallick

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Kolkata,West Bengal,India

Eclipse Adoptium mentor(s): Shelley Lambert and Lan Xia and Sophia Guo
Project: Simplify & Gamify AQA External Tests (Codename ‘Tweetest’)
Project skills: Curiosity, Good communication skills, Javascript

EDAM Ontology

Hager Eldakroury

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Cairo,Egypt

EDAM Ontology mentor(s): Hervé Ménager and Matúš Kalaš and Bryan Brancotte
Project: Extend the user interface features of the EDAM ontology browser
Project skills: D3.js, JavaScript, User interface design

Meli

EDAM Ontology mentor(s): Matúš Kalaš and Hervé Ménager
Project: Improve the contents of EDAM ontology (content editing, *optional* coding in Python or Bash)
Project skills: Attention to detail, Excitement about science

F4PGA

Prahitha Movva

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: India

F4PGA mentor(s): kgugala and tgor
Project: Extend SystemVerilog test suite with functionality to filter the results basing on the test output
Project skills: JavaScript, Python, SystemVerilog

Fedora

Dhairya Chaudhary

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

Fedora mentor(s): Marie Nordin
Project: Develop Designs for the Fedora Community Outreach Revamp
Project skills: Graphic Design, Marketing, Typography

Manisha Kanyal

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Greater Noida, India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: manishakanyal

Fedora mentor(s): Lukas Brabec and Josef
Project: Improve Fedora QA Dashboard
Project skills: Javascript, React + Redux

Josseline Perdomo

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
IRC/Chat/Forum username: josseline

Fedora mentor(s): Matthew Miller
Project: Improve Fedora's automated community metrics
Project skills: Data Visualization, Matplotlib, Pandas, Python

Rafael Garcia Ruiz

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Sevilla, Sevilla, España
IRC/Chat/Forum username: razaloc

Fedora mentor(s): Jonathan Lebon and Colin Walters and Timothée Ravier
Project: Support repo overrides in rpm-ostree
Project skills: C programming, Rust programming

Firefox

Neha Binwal

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Firefox mentor(s): Elise Richards
Project: Enhance Accessibility Support for Fenix (Firefox for Android)
Project skills: Git version control, Java, Kotlin

Kajal Kumari Sah

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Itanagar Arunachal Pradesh
IRC/Chat/Forum username: kajalsah

Firefox mentor(s): Emma Malysz and Sam Foster
Project: Improve Firefox Screenshots
Project skills: Javascript, Version Control

Ava Katushka

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Russia
IRC/Chat/Forum username: avakatushka

Firefox mentor(s): Micah Tigley and Gijs
Project: Improve the Firefox Downloads Panel
Project skills: C++, CSS, HTML, Javascript

Ashwini Wankhede

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Firefox mentor(s): Iain Ireland and Matthew Gaudet
Project: Modernize internationalization in SpiderMonkey's regular expression engine
Project skills: C++, Internationalization, Regular expressions, Rust, Version control

Yogita Bhatia

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

Firefox mentor(s): Lauren Zugai and Jody Heavener
Project: Revamp Firefox Accounts Emails with Modernized Templates, TypeScript, & Storybook
Project skills: CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Node, React, TypeScript

Firefox Data Team

Samyuktha Gopalsamy

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: New Brunswick, NJ, USA
IRC/Chat/Forum username: samyuktha

Firefox Data Team mentor(s): Corey Dow-Hygelund and Leif Oines
Project: Identifying Usage Personalities In Firefox
Project skills: Data Manipulation, Python

GNOME

Violet H

Pronouns: they/them/theirs
Location: Lawrence, Kansas
IRC/Chat/Forum username: madds

GNOME mentor(s): Federico Mena Quintero
Project: Librsvg: Implement SVG2/CSS3 features
Project skills: CSS, Rust, SVG

Veena Nagar

Location: Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

GNOME mentor(s): Philip Chimento
Project: Make GNOME asynchronous!
Project skills: Git, JavaScript, Python

GNU Guix

Canan Talayhan

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Istanbul / Turkey
IRC/Chat/Forum username: canant

GNU Guix mentor(s): Christopher Baines
Project: Guix Data Service: revision processing instrumentation and performance
Project skills: Guile Scheme, Software development in general, SQL

Inkscape

Kavya Jaiswal

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: India

Inkscape mentor(s): Martin Owens
Project: Inkscape: On-canvas Align and Distribute Upgrade
Project skills: Programming language like C++ Python

InterMine

Megha Jain

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

InterMine mentor(s): Rachel Lyne and Adrián Bazaga
Project: Migration of natural language query translation code to OpenNMT 2.0
Project skills: Python, Software engineering

Linux Kernel

Mitali Borkar

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

Linux Kernel mentor(s): Vineeth Pillai
Project: Create a linux scheduler test suite to understand functionality and performance of Core Scheduling
Project skills: C programming, Operating Systems, Scripting bash python

Beatriz Martins de Carvalho

Location: Fundão, Portugal
IRC/Chat/Forum username: BeatrizCarvalho

Linux Kernel mentor(s): Melissa Wen and Daniel Vetter
Project: Improvements to DRI-devel (aka kernel GPU subsystem)
Project skills: C programming, git

Deborah Brouwer

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

Linux Kernel mentor(s): Hans Verkuil and Johan Fjeldtvedt
Project: Improving the HDMI CEC compliance tests and the CEC emulation of the vivid driver
Project skills: C, C++, Command line, git

Zhansaya Bagdauletkyzy

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Kazakhstan

Linux Kernel mentor(s): Pavel Tatashin and Tyler Hicks
Project: kernel self test for ksm (kernel same-page merging)
Project skills: C Programming, Linux Experience, Operating System concept

LLVM

POOJA YADAV

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: GOA, INDIA
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Pooja

LLVM mentor(s): Kit Barton and none
Project: Create Documentation and Tutorials for the LLVM Global Instruction Selection Framework
Project skills: C++, git

Sushma Unnibhavi

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Bangalore,Karnataka,India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: sushma

LLVM mentor(s): Anshil Gandhi and none
Project: Implement GlobalISel for the M68k backend in LLVM
Project skills: C++ programming language, LLVM IR, LLVM MIR

Matrix

Meenal T

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: India

Matrix mentor(s): Dan Callahan and Kegan Dougal
Project: Extend and Improve Complement, our end-to-end test suite
Project skills: Docker, Go, HTTP, Perl

H. Shay

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Bay Area

Matrix mentor(s): Dan Callahan and reivilibre
Project: Modernize two Matrix chat microservices: Sygnal and Sydent
Project skills: Docker, HTTP, Python

moja global

Debolina Ghatuary

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Jharkhand, India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Debolina

moja global mentor(s): Andrew O'Reilly-Nugent and Deval Pandya
Project: Climate change speedrun: benchmark and profiling of a C++ MRV library
Project skills: C++

Sree Vidhya

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

moja global mentor(s): Andrew O'Reilly-Nugent
Project: Climate change speedrun: benchmark and profiling of a C++ MRV library
Project skills: C++

OCaml

Odinaka Joy

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Port Harcourt, Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: dinakajoy

OCaml mentor(s): Patrick Ferris and Sonja Heinze
Project: Create opam package search
Project skills: GraphQL, OCaml

Diksha Gupta

Location: Delhi, India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Diksha

OCaml mentor(s): Patrick Ferris and Gargi Sharma and Bella
Project: Improve the ocaml.org website
Project skills: CSS, HTML, OCaml

Shreya kumari Gupta

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Patna, Bihar, India

OCaml mentor(s): Patrick Ferris and Anil Madhavapeddy and Gargi Sharma and Bella
Project: Improve the ocaml.org website
Project skills: CSS, HTML, OCaml

ODK-X

Phebe Temenu

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

ODK-X mentor(s): Caroline Krafft and Li Lin and Waylon Brunette and Albert
Project: Improve ODK-X Documentation and Learning Paths
Project skills: Code editor, Docker, Github, Python, Sphinx, Strong writing skills

OpenArchive

Vani Chitkara

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: New Delhi, India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Vani Chitkara

OpenArchive mentor(s): Viktoriia Savchuk
Project: Improve Outreach & Collaboration + Strategic Social Media Management for OpenArchive
Project skills: Graphic Design, html & css, social media management

Angélica Pagés

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Buenos Aires
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Angel

OpenArchive mentor(s): Natalie C
Project: Improve Outreach & Collaboration + Strategic Social Media Management for OpenArchive
Project skills: Graphic Design, html & css, social media management

OpenStack

Sunday Mgbogu

Pronouns: he/him/his
Location: Lagos
IRC/Chat/Forum username: digitalsimboja

OpenStack mentor(s): Maysa de Macedo Souza and Luis Tomas Bolivar
Project: Add support for OpenStack resources reconciliation in Kuryr-Kubernetes
Project skills: Kubernetes, Python programming

Kafilat Adeleke

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

OpenStack mentor(s): Victoria Martinez de la Cruz
Project: Add support for share types quotas
Project skills: Django, GNU + Linux system administration, Python

cenne.d

IRC/Chat/Forum username: cenn,cenne

OpenStack mentor(s): Dmitry Tantsur and Iury Gregory and Jay Faulkner
Project: Expose boot mode and secure boot status in the Ironic API
Project skills: HTTP, Python, Shell

Archana Kumari

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: archanaserver

OpenStack mentor(s): Victoria Martinez de la Cruz and Goutham Pacha Ravi
Project: OpenStackSDK support for Manila
Project skills: BASH, GNU + Linux system administration, Python

Oppia

Caroline Intaschi

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil

Oppia mentor(s): Riya Sogani
Project: Validating Oppia’s lessons while drafting and implementing a plan for large scale outreach
Project skills: Analytical thinking, Graphic Design, Report Writing, Written communication in English

Ruba

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Palestine

Oppia mentor(s): Riya Sogani and Sean Lip
Project: Validating Oppia’s lessons while drafting and implementing a plan for large scale outreach
Project skills: Analytical thinking, Graphic Design, Report Writing, Written communication in English

Perl & Raku

Rosheen Naeem

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Pakistan
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Rosheen

Perl & Raku mentor(s): Stéphane Gigandet
Project: Improve the Perl code quality of Open Food Facts
Project skills: Linux, Perl

Public Lab

Manasa Kashyap

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: India

Public Lab mentor(s): Jeffrey Warren and Cess Wairimu and Sneha Mishra and Ruth Waiganjo and Sudipto Ghosh
Project: Expand and refine Tag/topic system of PublicLab.org
Project skills: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails

Tilda Udufo

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

Public Lab mentor(s): Jeffrey Warren and Cess Wairimu and Ruth Waiganjo
Project: Improve education-related usability and functionality on PublicLab.org
Project skills: JavaScript, Ruby on Rails

PyMC

Abhipsha Das

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: India

PyMC mentor(s): Oriol Abril Pla
Project: Improve PyMC3 example notebooks for PyMC3 4.0 and Aesara
Project skills: Bayesian statistics, GitHub workflow: fork-branch-PR, PyMC3

sktime

Taiwo Owoseni

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

sktime mentor(s): Markus Löning and Nina Miolane
Project: Create panel forecasting module for occupancy-rate forecasting from Covid-19 hospital data
Project skills: Python programming, Time series analysis

Guzal Bulatova

Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Guzal

sktime mentor(s): Markus Löning and Martina G. Vilas
Project: Extend classification API to handle time-constant variables and predict Covid-19 mortality risk
Project skills: Python programming, time series analysis

TensorFlow

Nirzari Gupta

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

TensorFlow mentor(s): Thea Lamkin and Robert Crowe
Project: Create custom components and tools for TensorFlow Extended (TFX)
Project skills: ML, Python, Software engineering

Kshitijaa Jaglan

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

TensorFlow mentor(s): Thea Lamkin and Robert Crowe
Project: Create custom components and tools for TensorFlow Extended (TFX)
Project skills: ML, Python, Software engineering

Adwan Fatimah

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Lagos Nigeria
IRC/Chat/Forum username: Fatimah Adwan

TensorFlow mentor(s): Thea Lamkin and Robert Crowe
Project: Create custom components and tools for TensorFlow Extended (TFX)
Project skills: ML, Python, Software engineering

Pratishtha Abrol

Pronouns: she/her/hers

TensorFlow mentor(s): Thea Lamkin and Robert Crowe
Project: Create custom components and tools for TensorFlow Extended (TFX)
Project skills: ML, Python, Software engineering

Drishti Vijay Patel

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: India (country)

TensorFlow mentor(s): Thea Lamkin and Kevin Murphy
Project: Create examples for JAX (a new open-source ML library)
Project skills: Matlab, ML, Python

Tor Project

Kulsoom Zahra

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Aligarh, India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: kulsoom_z

Tor Project mentor(s): Gustavo gus
Project: Help Tor Project support our users
Project skills: GitHub workflow: fork-branch-PR, Technical Writer, Written communication in English

UNICEF Innovation

Rachita Saha

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Delhi, India
IRC/Chat/Forum username: rachita_saha

UNICEF Innovation mentor(s): Victor Grau Serrat and Amreen P
Project: Create map visualizations of digital public good developments and implementations
Project skills: Data visualization, Javascript, JSON, React

Ushahidi

Mary Obiagba

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

Ushahidi mentor(s): Anna Iosif
Project: Improve performance on the Ushahidi Platform Client
Project skills: AngularJs, JavaScript, Webpack

Wikimedia

Muniza A.

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Karachi, Pakistan

Wikimedia mentor(s): Martin Gerlach and Isaac Johnson
Project: Build a tool for analyzing and visualizing reader navigation on wikipedia
Project skills: HTML, Jupyter notebooks, Python programming, Research

Slavina S

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: Lyon Area, France
IRC/Chat/Forum username: blancadesal

Wikimedia mentor(s): Sarah R. and Isaac Johnson
Project: Create notebook based tutorials that help users access and work with data on Wikimedia projects
Project skills: JSON, Jupyter notebooks, Python 3, Research, SQL, Technical documentation

Nirali Sahoo

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Location: India

Wikimedia mentor(s): Mike Peel
Project: Synchronising Wikidata and Wikipedias using pywikibot
Project skills: Python, Wikidata

Ammar A.

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

Wikimedia mentor(s): Mike Peel
Project: Synchronising Wikidata and Wikipedias using pywikibot
Project skills: Python, Wikidata

Outreachy May 2021 to August 2021 Interns