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 community problems, or find those who can (are community problems the problems you meant here?-Katie)

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

Find a greeter
FIXME: how?

The best way to contact a greeter is by __________. We also suggest that new contributors hang out on our IRC channel ______________. It's easy to get on IRC (link to instructions).

Greeters:


 * 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.