Project:New contributors/Greeters

Joining a community can be confusing and hard at first. Luckily, the very nature of a community is that there are others to help you out.

Greeters can help you:


 * Ask the right questions
 * Find the right answers
 * Connect with people that share your interests
 * Contribute to your first task
 * Suggest a task you can complete
 * Solve a community problem, or find someone who can

Free software communities can be less open to diversity than they think. Greeters are interested in helping contributors who are having a harder time because of their abilities, age, gender, language, or cultural, ethnic, or economic background.

Find a greeter
FIXME: how?

Introduce yourself on the greeter thread (link) and share a little about why you're getting involved. If you have a specific question, the greeter thread is a great place to get help.

You can also talk to individual greeters on their talk page. To access a talk page, click on the name of the user, and then click on the discussion tab.

New contributors may also enjoy the conversation on our IRC channel: ______________. It's easy to get on IRC (link to instructions).

Greeters:

(Add greeter interests? Languages?)


 * Quim Gil
 * Sucheta Ghoshal
 * Valerie Juarez
 * Nischay Nahata

Becoming a greeter
FIXME: how?

We have possible mentors for development projects. Greeters and mentors do similar jobs in helping community members, but greeting requires less technical expertise. If you are a regular community member, you are probably a good Greeter.