Congratulations to Frances Coronel, Open Source Lead at Techqueria and recipient of Sentry’s first-ever Open Source Grant! She has been working professionally as a developer since 2015 and has both a Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science. Her passions outside of work include contributing to open source, public speaking and mentoring other URMs in tech. She has been involved with Techqueria as an open source lead since 2018.
Techqueria is a volunteer-run organization that aims to create spaces for career advice and development, events, conferences, and speaking opportunities among Latinx professionals in tech. Sentry's Open Source Grant will allow them to create a member portal that better engages their community through user profiles, job boards, and event calendars. The grant also reflects Techqueria's targeted approach toward inclusion and community-building in all of their projects. Eight other projects were also reviewed, including Distribute Aid, anemone, lollipop cloud, lufthaden, matterhorn, plots2, readthedocs, and EteSync, which demonstrate a wide range of innovative initiatives focused on open source development and community engagement.