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 (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.