December 25 to March 26 Outreachy round: Introduce yourselves here!

Hi there all Outreachy applicants!

Welcome to the Suricata community and forum. We’re happy that you want to learn more about our project and about open source in general.

If you haven’t done so, please go through the pinned post that explains the Outreachy category.

This thread is for all mentors and applicants to introduce themselves, and only that.
If you have any questions or suggestions, check our Outreachy Contribution Rounds FAQ, or create a new topic.

Feel free to choose the length of your introduction. We just want to learn a bit about everybody. I’ll go first. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Hi all ^^

I’m Juliana (Pronouns: She/Her - they/them is also fine).
I will be one of your mentors during the contribution phase.
I am a member of the Suricata developer’s team.
I am also the Outreachy community coordinator for this project.
I’m from Brazil :brazil:
Social media: jufajardini (@jufajardini@infosec.exchange) - Infosec Exchange.
I’m a past Outreachy intern :purple_heart:

During the contribution phase, I’ll be in two time zones:
:mantelpiece_clock: UTC - 3 and UTC - 7
On Discord, I’m Juliana Fajardini :slight_smile:

:e-mail: Please contact me at jufajardini [at] oisf [dot] net in case of any CoC violations or anything you do not feel comfortable sharing in public.

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Hi all ^^

I’m Philippe (Pronouns: He/Him).
I will be one of your mentors.
I am a member of the Suricata developer’s team.
I’m from France :france:

Social media: catenacyber (Catena cyber) · GitHub
I am in France :
:mantelpiece_clock: UTC +1

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Hi, folks!

:waving_hand: I am Shivani
Pronouns: She/Her (They/them is also fine)
I am a member of the Suricata developer’s team
:woman_genie: I’ll be one of your mentors for OISF
:spider_web: https://shivanibhardwaj.com
:e-mail: Contact me at shivani [at] oisf [dot] net in case of any CoC violations or anything you do not feel comfortable sharing in public.
:india: : I am from India
:mantelpiece_clock: : UTC+05:30

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Hi all!

:wave: I am Victor
:man: Pronouns: He/Him
:mantelpiece_clock: Timezone: Europe/Amsterdam
:genie: I’ll be one of your mentors for OISF.
:briefcase: Leading the Suricata development effort.
:email: Contact me at vjulien@oisf.net in case of any CoC violations or anything you might not feel comfortable sharing in public.
:open_file_folder: In the past, I’ve mostly done Open source C development.
:elephant: Mastodon at Victor Julien (@inliniac@mastodon.social) - Mastodon
:notebook: Blog at https://blog.inliniac.net/
:netherlands: I am from the Netherlands

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Hello everyone!

I am Jason (He/Him) and will be one of your mentors.

I am a member of the Suricata development team.

You can contact me me at jish@oisf.net or ish.ca on Discord for any reason. Or follow-me on Mastodon (@ish@infosec.exchange).

I am from Canada :canada: any my timezone is UTC-6.

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Hello everyone.
I am Olusegun from Nigeria and I’m one of the newly approved outreachy applicants.
I’d wish to part-take in the suricata project and learn from great mentors.
Looking forward to add meaningful contributions to this community.

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Hi Everyone,

I’m Desire (Pronouns: He/Him).
I’m an approved Outreachy applicant for the December 25 to March 26 round.
I would be taking part in the Suricata project for the contribution phase, and I look forward to what’s ahead.
I am from Nigeria. :nigeria:

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Hello Suricata Community,

I am James (Pronouns: he/him).

I am an Outreachy intern 2025 and I am honored to contribute to SURICATA.

I am from Uganda, Africa. :uganda: . UTC +3, kaddujames501@gmail.com
I love opensource, thanks for having me .

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Hello Suricata Community,

My name is Charles Promise, and I’m thrilled to be joining you as an Outreachy intern. I’ve been matched with the Suricata project, and I’m genuinely excited to start learning, collaborating, and contributing to the work you’re doing here.

I have a background in cybersecurity and software testing, and I’m particularly eager to deepen my understanding of network security monitoring and open-source development through this experience. I’m looking forward to engaging with the team, exploring the codebase, and contributing wherever I can add value.

Thank you for welcoming me, I’m very happy to be here and can’t wait to get started!

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welcome onboard @sheltcp1 , glad to have you around

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Thank you @james1 I hope to learn from you also..

Hi everyone, Cheryl here from Kenya. I’m one of the newly approved outreachy applicants. Glad I made it here. I’m looking forward to working on the suricata project and definitely looking forward to learning from everyone.

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I am going through the Good first Issues and I will be working on this: Optimization #6583: rust: get rid of unused final zeroes in protocol detection patterns - Suricata - Open Information Security Foundation

Hi Suricata team!

I’m Nirnay Roy. I am an applicant for Outreachy and excited to contribute to and learn from the community. I would like to request a dev role for the contributing to the issue # 5711

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Hey Nirnay, welcome to our community!

Please look for tickets that are not assigned to anyone yet, I see that #5711 was claimed by Charles P a day ago. My suggestion is that you look through the tickets that are assigned as Community Tickets :wink:

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Hi everyone!

I’m Jhonny (Pronouns: He/Him).

I’m from Brazil :brazil: and greatly passionate about cybersecurity.

You can find me on Discord as Jhonny Sousa.
During the contribution phase, I’ll be around UTC -3.

Excited to learn and grow with everyone here! :grin:

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most welcome @Jhonny_rs , glad as well to have you join the community. We grow together.

Hi everyone!, My name’s Ezra.

Fashionably late, but finally here :sweat_smile: . Guess I took “never late than never” a bit too literally :sweat_smile:

I’m excited to be part of the Outreachy winter round and to contribute to Suricata.

Looking forward to learning, collaborating, and diving into open source with you all.

Hello there, and welcome! As you’ve pointed yourself, it is indeed a bit late in the process, so you may need to learn and get started on everything somewhat faster.

The good news is that a lot of questions and answers have already happened in our Discord server, so hopefully that may save you some time, too.

Be sure to check the post about the midway checkpoint, that I posted today. And happy contribution phase!

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