Ubuntu Women Mentoring Program

The Ubuntu Women Mentors program allows new Ubuntu contributors to work together with skilled contributors whose expertise span across areas like:

Package and/or maintain software to be included in the next release.
Writing locales for languages
Providing technical assistance for a specific task.
Creating desktop art (icons, screensavers, wallpapers,...) for Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu/Xubuntu.
Writing technical documentation for a planned release.
Maintaining technical wiki pages and integrating them with the relevant sections or even translating them to other languages.
... any other Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu/Xubuntu related task.

Our goal is to encourage women in Ubuntu to increase participation and contribute to tasks where they have limited experience and are willing to learn.

How does it work?

We maintain a list of active mentors and mentoring projects and pair up mentees with mentors in their field of interest. Please read this MentoringFAQ for more details.

Currently active mentors and their areas of interest

Individuals

Name	IRC nick	Gender	Time Zone	Specialty
Jerome Gotangco	jsgotangco			Documentation, Edubuntu, bug triage (xorg, g-a-i, u-m).
Vincent Untz	vuntz			Gnome desktop-related stuff (to develop ideas for the desktop, fixing some bugs, growing the desktop group, etc...)
Lyz Krumbach	pleia2	female	UTC-8	Communication in Ubuntu - IRC, mailing lists, forums
Mackenzie Morgan	maco			Packaging, bug triaging, bug fixing
Leigh Honeywell	hypa7ia	female		Getting started with Ubuntu in general, Security, general sysadmin stuff, Python, bash and other shell scripting, Perl
Myriam Schweingruber	Mamarok	female		All things Kubuntu and KDE desktop, bug triaging, LoCo teams, support, IRC, mailing lists, forums, etc.
Amber Graner	akgraner	female		Non-developer areas of contribution to the community, Events Planning, ubucons, Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter
Laura Czajkowski	czajkowski			Communication in Ubuntu - IRC, mailing lists, organising events, how to get involved in Ubuntu
Akkana Peck	akk	female		Programming - especially Python, C, Javascript, Mozilla/Firefox, GIMP - bug fixing, writing, public speaking

Note: the gender field is completely optional, but has been included as some mentees (people being mentored) are more comfortable with a mentor of a particular gender.

Teams

The following teams in the Ubuntu Community have an ongoing partnership with the Ubuntu Women Project to help provide mentors through their mentoring programs.

Name	Mentoring Program URL	Contact
Beginners Team Mentoring	https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/Structure#Mentors	Charles Profitt

Request: Please do not contact any of the mentors with questions about Ubuntu user-related problems. For this purpose we already have a devoted community who help Ubuntu users.

Other Mentoring Program Activities

The Mentoring Program also sponsors the Ubuntu Women Courses, part of the Ubuntu Classroom.

Contact Us

Send an email to our mailing list (this is a publicly archived mailing list)

Send an email Michelle Hall, Laura Czajkowski and Elizabeth Krumbach directly:

On IRC, join #ubuntu-women-project (pubilcly archived) or #ubuntu-women on irc.freenode.net, where volunteers will be able to guide you. There may not be people monitoring this channel 24/7, so please be patient if nobody responds, or try the mailing list instead.