A curated list of mentors who are interested in helping new contributors get involved in Rust.
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Work in progress - RustBeginners#11
If there are any topics of interest that you're looking for that aren't covered by any of the mentors here just open an issue to let us know! We will do our best to find a mentor for that topic / library / whatever and get them to sign up.
Andre Bogus (@llogiq)
- Pronouns: he/him
- Contact Twitter (@llogiq), reddit (/u/llogiq)
- Spoken Languages: English, German
- Topics: Procedural macros, writing lints, unsafe code, performance, bit twiddling, public speaking
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
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.
Bhargav Voleti (@bIgBV)
- Pronouns: he/him
- Contact: Twitter (@2093bps)
- Spoken Languages: English, Hindi
- Topics: Beginners, async, distributed systems
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
Jane Lusby (@yaahc)
- Pronouns: she/her
- Contact: Twitter (@yaahc_)
- Spoken Languages: English
- Topics: Beginners, community outreach, cargo, clippy, tracing, CLI
- Aditional Resources: My work tracker, I'm especially happy to mentor any of these issues
Luca Barbato (@lu-zero)
- Contact: IRC (lu_zero on freenode.net), Telegram (lu_zero)
- Spoken Languages: English, Italian
- Topics: Multimedia, cargo, proc-macros, CLI
Lucio Franco (@LucioFranco)
- Pronouns: he/him
- Contact: Twitter (@lucio_d_franco)
- Spoken Languages: English, Italian, French
- Topics: Async io, networking, distributed systems, game dev, compilers
Mara Bos (@m-ou-se)
- Pronouns: she/her
- Contact: Email ([email protected]), Twitter (@m_ou_se), IRC (M-ou-se on Freenode)
- Spoken Languages: English, Dutch
- Topics: Embedded, CLI, math, proc-macro, Linux, undefined behaviour, FFI, lifetimes
Nikolai Vazquez (@nvzqz)
- Pronouns: he/him
- Contact: Email ([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
Oli (@oli-obk)
- Pronouns: he/him
- Contact: Zulip (@oli), Github (@oli-obk), Discord (oli#1337)
- Spoken Languages: German, English
- Topics: Miri, const eval, error messages and other diagnostics, optimizations, MIR
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!
Shady Khalifa (@shekohex)
- Pronouns: he/him
- Contact: Twitter (@shekohex)
- Spoken Languages: Arabic, English
- Topics: Networking, FFI, CLI, parsers, development tools, web (server-side)
Søren Mortensen (@nerosnm)
- Pronouns: he/him
- Contact: Twitter (@nerosnm), Email ([email protected])
- Spoken Languages: English
- Topics: Beginners/the basics, developer tools, CLI, Rust–Swift/Objective-C interop
William (@Firstyear)
- Pronouns: he/him/they/them
- Contact: Twitter (@Erstejahre), Email ([email protected])
- Spoken Languages: English
- Topics: Code review, beginners, C-FFI, concurrency, data structures, security, identity management aka authentication
- Additional Resources:
Zack M. Davis (@zackmdavis)
- Contact: Twitter (@zackmdavis), email ([email protected]), Discord (zackmdavis#3944)
- Spoken Languages: English
- Topics: Language basics, rustc development (especially diagnostics)
- Rust Language Cheat Sheet - https://cheats.rs/
- rust-learning - https://github.com/ctjhoa/rust-learning
- awesome-rust - https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust#resources