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We need to properly fill out the expectations. I'm thinking the following points are important to include.

• The main goal is to help them get involved in rust, not to directly teach them. Guiding them to resources and answering questions or helping them find the answer, not giving structured lessons.
• Be polite and always constructive
• Its okay if you don't have a ton of time, as long as you're responsive within ~ 1 day of a question (is this reasonable?)
• If you're no longer active please ask to be removed.

There's probably a ton more things that should be said.

based on a question asked at rustconf

https://discordapp.com/channels/734893811884621927/734893811884621931/746132662586048642

Ben (@gnunicorn)

• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: Matrix (@ben:matrix.parity.io]; Gitter (@gnunicorn]: Twitter (@gnunicornBen)
• Spoken Languages: English, German
• Topics: Hacktoberfest, libp2p, substrate, blockchain, decentralization, networking, p2p, cryptogovernance, cli, web, webassembly, data structures, architecture
• Additional Resources: personal website

Preferred Name: Seun.

Github Handle: https://github.com/joshuaaminu

Pronouns: He/him

Contact: https://wa.me/2348170321148, Twitter (@seun_ja)

Spoken Languages: English.

Topics: Rust generally, as a beginner

Additional Resources: Any other learning resources that you maintain that you would like to share.

Preferred Name (@xrl)

• Pronouns: He/Him
• Contact: ([@uint128_t]) on the rust discord
• Spoken Languages: English, French
• Topics: Actix, Kubernetes, Docker builds
• Additional Resources:

Eliza Weisman (@hawkw)

• Pronouns: she/her
• Contact: Email ([email protected]), Discord (mycoliza#5146)
• Spoken Languages: English
• Topics: Async I/O, networking, concurrent data structures. I'm pretty busy and would generally prefer to provide mentoring for contributions to projects I already contribute to (tokio, tracing, tower, etc).

Looks like @phaazon's name isn't displaying right on the site (#71):

• Github Username or equivalent handle: @LucioFranco
• Pronouns: He/Him
• Contact: twitter @lucio_d_franco
• Spoken Languages: English, Italian, French
• Topics: async io, networking, distributed systems, game dev, compilers

lmk if there is anything else!

Jonathan Turner (@jonathandturner)

• Pronouns: any gender pronoun
• Contact: Email, discord chat(jturner#3961), twitter(@jntrnr)
• Spoken Languages: English
• Topics: Developer experiences, growing projects, Emulation, CLI, and Beginner/Intermediate Rust

I want to add more useful links for beginners who are maybe hesitant or shy to initiate contact with one of the mentors so they can still get their teeth into something.

https://github.com/not-yet-awesome-rust/not-yet-awesome-rust - seems like an okay list of project ideas.

I know @dtolnay has a few good repos as well

https://github.com/dtolnay/request-for-implementation
https://github.com/dtolnay/rust-quiz
https://github.com/dtolnay/case-studies

any other ideas? @sorenmortensen

• Preferred Name: Oli
• Github Username or equivalent handle: oli-obk
• Pronouns: He/him
• Contact: zulip or github preferred, but discord works, too
• Spoken Languages: German and English
• Topics: miri, const eval, error messages and other diagnostics, optimizations, MIR

William (@Firstyear)

• Pronouns: he/him/they/them
• Contact: Twitter ([@Erstejahre] (https://twitter.com/Erstejahre)), Email (william at blackhats.net.au)
• Spoken Languages: English
• Topics: Beginners, C-FFI, Concurrency, Data Structures, Security, Identity Management aka Authentication
• Additional Resources: https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/html/2019/02/26/programming_lessons_and_methods.html
  https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/html/pages/ldap_guide_part_1_foundations.html
  https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/html/2019/04/13/using_rust_generics_to_enforce_db_record_state.html
  https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/html/2019/07/16/cpu_atomics_and_orderings_explained.html

Preferred Name: Mike / Michael Ward @Michael-J-Ward

Github Handle: Michael-J-Ward
Pronouns: he / him
Contact: email / slack / hangouts / discord / any. I haven't actually used twitter until recently but here
Spoken Languages: English
Topics: For Rust specifically, I'm currently working through the rust book and exercism.io exercises. After i finish that I'd like to complete Practical Networked Applications in Rust and find a way to contribute to open source projects.

Such a cool thing to set up! Thank you @yaahc !

Hi Rust Community,
I can not find the topics covered by mentors related to blockchain and cryptocurrency.
It would be great to have them.
Thanks

Linfa - A Rust machine learning framework

• Repo: https://github.com/rust-ml/linfa
• Contact: https://rust-ml.zulipchat.com/
• Mentors: https://github.com/quietlychris, https://github.com/bytesnake
• Spoken Languages: English, German
• Recommended Experiences: Beginner - Intermediate
• Topics: Machine Learning, Data analysis, Clustering, Algorithms

Luca Barbato (@lu-zero)

• Contact: IRC (lu_zero on freenode.net), lu_zero on Telegram
• Spoken Languages: English, Italian
• Topics: Multimedia, cargo, proc-macros, CLI

Looks like the random re-ordering of the mentors is only reordering the first few mentors.

Andreas Fischer (@Vengarioth)

• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: Twitter (@vengarioth), Email ([email protected])
• Spoken Languages: English, German
• Topics: Games Programming, Graphics & Rendering, Netcode (Games), Parsers, Starting a company in germany

Geoff Shannon (@RadicalZephyr)

• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: Discord (@radicalzephyr#6728)
• Spoken Languages: English
• Topics: beginners, intermediates, async/await, macros (by-example and procedural), parsing, tokio

survey the current mentors and possibly whatever mentees I can

get feedback and information on everyones experiences, how many mentees mentors get, how happy everyone is with the system, etc.

Joshua Mir (@joshua-mir)

• Pronouns: He/Him
• Contact: Twitter: @jam10o, Gitter (technical support chat): @joshua-mir
• Spoken Languages: English
• Topics: beginner Rust, parity-ethereum, Substrate runtime development
• Additional Resources: Substrate Docs, Parity (Ethereum) Wiki, Substrate Community Resources

Bernardo Meurer (@lovesegfault)

• Preferred Pronouns: He/Him
• Contact:
  • Twitter (@lovesegfault)
  • Email ([email protected])
• Spoken Languages:
  • Portuguese
  • English
• Topics: Beginners, Intermediates, Video, cameras, data transports, distributed systems
• Additional Resources: You can see the slides of the talk I gave this year as a reference on the kind of stuff I work with.

Ravi (@wafflespeanut)

• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: Twitter (@wafflespeanut)
• Spoken Languages: English, Tamil
• Topics: Beginners, CLI, web, coding practices, clean + maintainable code.
• Additional Resources: I'm actively working on paperclip, a WIP OpenAPI tooling library. I'd love to give a hand if anyone's interested!

• Preferred Name: Shady Khalifa
• Github Username or equivalent handle: @shekohex on almost every website :)
• Pronouns: He/Him
• Contact: Twitter (@shekohex)
• Spoken Languages: Arabic, English
• Topics: Networking, FFI, CLI, Parsers, Development Tools, Web (Server-Side)

• Preferred Name: Søren Mortensen
• Github Username or equivalent handle: @sorenmortensen
• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: Twitter @nerosnm or email [email protected]
• Spoken Languages: English
• Topics: beginners/the basics, developer tools, CLI, Rust–Swift/Objective-C interop

Amit Upadhyay (@amitu)

• Pronouns: Amit Upadhyay
• Contact: [email protected]
• Spoken Languages: English, Hindi
• Topics: Web Development, CLI, Database, Realm

Gabe Martinez (@mystal)

• Pronouns: they/them
• Contact: Twitter (@mystalice), Discord (mystal#3600)
• Spoken Languages: English
• Topics: Beginner/Intermediate Rust, Game Programming (& Design), Rapid Prototyping, Product Management

• Preferred Name: Mara Bos
• Github Username or equivalent handle: @m-ou-se
• Pronouns: she/her
• Contact: E-mail: [email protected], or Twitter: @m_ou_se, or IRC: M-ou-se on Freenode
• Spoken Languages: English, Dutch
• Topics: Embedded, CLI, math, proc-macro, Linux, undefined behaviour, FFI, lifetimes
• Additional resources: -

Raj (@avranju)

• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: Twitter (@avranju)
• Spoken Languages: English
• Topics: Networking, async I/O, beginner/intermediate Rust

• Preferred Name: Nikolai Vazquez

• Github Username or equivalent handle: nvzqz

• Pronouns: he/him/his

• Contact: [email protected]

• Spoken Languages: English, Spanish, German

• Topics: Learning Rust from nothing or experienced newcomers

• Additional resources: I maintain the Static Assertions crate and so I'd be happy to teach people how it works

Bhargav Voleti (@bIgBV)

• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: Twitter (@2093bps)
• Spoken Languages: English, Hindi
• Topics: Beginners, async, distributed systems

Phil Krones (@flip1995)

• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: GitHub (@flip1995), E-Mail ([email protected]), Discord (flip1995#2683; not that active there)
• Spoken Languages: German, English (German is my first language, but I don't really have a "preferred" one)
• Topics: Beginners, Clippy, Lints, Diagnostics

Preferred Name (@rw)

• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: Twitter (Direct Messages are open) @robert_winslow
• Spoken Languages: English
• Topics (General): Distributed systems, low-latency, testing, formal methods, Bayesian statistics, machine learning, deep learning, serialization.
• Topics (Rust-specific): async/await, FlatBuffers, testing, minimizing heap allocations, lifetimes, traits, borrow-checker, API design.
• Additional Resources: Video of a talk I presented at Mozilla HQ on FlatBuffers in Rust.

• Remember that these mentors are a 100% volunteer group, be kind and courteous.
• Something about mentoring vs tutoring, maybe unnecessary as repetative from mentor section?
• Please inform us if they're non responsive for a long period (7 days with no explanation?) or violate the CoC in any way. (need a point of contact for the repo that is not public, if someone experiences abuse we don't want them to have to open an issue to report it.)

I dont know what else

Cyryl Płotnicki (@cyplo)

• Pronouns: he/him/they/them
• Contact: Twitter (@cyplo)
• Spoken Languages: English, Polish
• Topics: mentoring others (so meta!), project management, brand-new-to-rust, structuring tests, property-based tests, fuzzers, distributed systems, I/O
• Additional Resources: I sometimes write about Rust on my blog

Mike Tang (@daogangtang)

• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: Twitter (@daogangtang)
• Spoken Languages: Chinese, English
• Topics: Beginners, community meetup, wasm, web framework, orm, substrate...
• Additional Resources:
  • rust.cc
  • rustforce.net

Esteban Küber (@estebank)

• Pronouns: he/his
• Contact: Twitter (@ekuber)
• Spoken Languages: English, Spanish
• Topics: Beginners, rustc (parser, diagnostics and in general).

At first I wasn't sure if I had time to mentor (I'm pretty busy these days), but then I remembered that I have a duty to pay it forward (Steve was there for me when I was new, and so I should be there for the people who come after me).

Zack M. Davis (@zackmdavis)

• Contact: Twitter (@zackmdavis), email [email protected], Discord (zackmdavis#3944)
• Spoken Languages: English
• Topics: language basics, rustc development (especially diagnostics)

Gray Olson (@termhn)

• Pronouns: she/her
• Contact: Twitter (@fu5ha)
• Spoken Languages: English
• Topics: Beginners, graphics, gamedev
• Additional resources:
  • learn-gfx-hal
  • learn-rendy
  • Introduction to PBR

Andrew Yourtchenko (@ayourtch)

• Pronouns: he/him/them
• Contact: Twitter (@ayourtch)
• Spoken Languages: English, Russian
• Topics: Beginners, CLI, iron, mustache, IPv6 & computer networking in general
• Additional Resources: I would classify myself as an intermediate level in Rust, but I dabble at various levels, e.g. both lower-level like TACACS+ (takaks), FFI (vpp-rust-plugin), as well as higher level like web-apps (rsp10) - will be happy to help and share my experience!

Preferred Name: Brian Anderson

Github Handle: brson

Pronouns: he/him

Contact: Telegram (MrBrianAnderson)

Spoken Languages: English

Topics: Rust tooling, ecosystem, greenfield projects, big ideas, Chinese community, connecting people. I work on TiKV, and have worked on the compiler, std, rustup, crater and others.

Additional Resources: Practical Networked Applications in Rust, Rust Anthology, basic-http-server, my blog and other writings, Rust Cookbook, Rust API Guidelines.

Dimitri Sabadie

• Github Handle: phaazon
• Pronouns: he/him.
• Contact: Twitter @phaazon
• Spoken Languages: French, English.
• Topics: graphics programming, procedural macros, unsafe bindings & FFI, functional programming & type theory, parsing, type-driven architectures, blockchains, low-level optimizations, cargo tools, writing RFCs.
• Additional Resources: My blog, https://phaazon.net/blog.

I want to be a mentor

Preferred Name (@github_handle)

• Pronouns: Maher Khalil
• Contact:[email protected]
• Spoken Languages: English, Arabic
• Topics: Biggners
• Additional Resources:

Erich Gubler (@erichdongubler)

• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: Email ([email protected])
• Spoken Languages: English, Portuguese (BR)
• Topics: Forensics/parsing, workflow (setting up projects, architecture)

Preferred Name: Dylan DPC

Github Handle: Dylan DPC

Pronouns: he/him

Contact: Discord (@dpc), Twitter (@dpc_22)

Spoken Languages: English, German (will be fun xD)

Topics: Open to anything that is sort of in the general-purpose domain
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Hi,

I am currently doing the Rust track on exercism.io

I wait now since 3 days for the OK of a mentor to continue my track, this is not good.
Of course I can leaf the mentored way and unlock all exercises, what I will possible do, but in general, for people who would like to learn Rust this way faster mentor response would be great.

Since this place is about awesome rust mentors I thought it could not harm to add a note about the exercism.io problem here, and maybe this could be added as a possibility for awesome rust mentors to help people like me who use exercism to learn Rust.
Hope it's OK that I opened this issue with this topic

If you find a mentor and you're happy with them, let us know! It would be helpful to the rest of us to see that this is actually helping new contributors get involved.

T.J. Telan (@tjtelan)

• Pronouns: he/him/they/them
• Contact: Twitter(@ThatTJTelan)
• Spoken Languages: English
• Topics: CLI, DevOps (CI/CD, automation, tools, infrastructure), distributed systems, embedded systems, wasm, beginner/intermediate Rust
• Additional Resources:
  • My Blog - https://tjtelan.com/ (Or just the Rust stuff)
  • My Twitch channel - https://www.twitch.tv/tjtelan