Project:New contributors/Greeters

Joining a community can be confusing and hard. Then again, after the first steps and a gentle push it can be as simple as swimming or cycling. Greeters can help you:


 * Finding the right information.
 * Collaborating with interesting people.
 * Contributing to a first task.
 * Solving problems, or finding who can solve them.

Free software communities can be less open to diversity than they think. Greeters have an explicit interest helping contributors that find a harder time because of their abilities, age, gender, language or cultural, ethnic or economic background.

Find a greeter
FIXME: how?

Greeters:


 * Quim Gil
 * Sucheta Ghoshal
 * Valerie Juarez

Becoming a greeter
FIXME: how?

We have possible mentors for development projects. Greeters and mentors are connected, but greeting requires less technical expertise. Any regular community members is probably a good Greeter.