awesome-rust-mentors

A curated list of mentors who are interested in helping new contributors get involved in Rust.

Code of Conduct

All mentors and mentees are expected to abide by the Rust community code of conduct. Violators will be removed from this list.

New Mentors

To apply, simply open an issue. There is a template set up to help you get started quickly.

Expectations For Mentors

Work in progress - https://github.com/RustBeginners/awesome-rust-mentors/issues/1

Expectations For Mentees

Work in progress - https://github.com/RustBeginners/awesome-rust-mentors/issues/11

Mentors

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

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 (rust@m-ou.se), 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

Nikolai Vazquez (@nvzqz)

• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: Email (nikvzqz@gmail.com)
• 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) or (github) preferred, but discord (oli#1337) works, too
• Spoken Languages: German, English
• Topics: Miri, const eval, error messages and other diagnostics, optimizations, MIR

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 (@sorenmortensen)

• Pronouns: he/him
• Contact: Twitter (@nerosnm) or email (soren@neros.dev)
• 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 (william at blackhats.net.au)
• Spoken Languages: English
• Topics: Beginners, C-FFI, concurrency, data structures, security, identity management aka authentication, code review
• Additional Resources:
  • Programming lessons and methods
  • LDAP guide
  • Using rust generics to enforce db record state
  • CPU atomics and ordering explained

Additional Resources

• rust-learning - https://github.com/ctjhoa/rust-learning
• awesome-rust - https://github.com/rust-unofficial/awesome-rust#resources