Roles I hold, and what came of them

Projects and documentation I own, wrote, or still look after.

1. 2026 2026

   OSS Portfolio · Personal 🛠 Project

   Built an automated system that collects, organizes, and showcases open source contributions — featuring customizable themes, progress reports, and a live dashboard for active projects.

   2025–present

2. Mautic Docs PRs Tracker · Personal / Mautic 🛠 Project

   Built an automated board showing the Education Team which documentation PRs are waiting on a review, with a reminder page that nudges developers to take a look.

   2026–present

3. OSS Portfolio Template · Personal 🛠 Project

   Turned the portfolio generator into a template anyone can copy and point at their own GitHub account.

   2026–present

4. Mautic contributing guidelines: overhaul and migration · Mautic 📚 Docs

   Rewrote Mautic's contributing guidelines, then moved them onto the Community Handbook site so all three documentation projects point at one set of instructions instead of keeping their own.

   2025–2026

5. Mautic Tester documentation overhaul · Mautic 📚 Docs

   Reworked the Tester guide so it starts with setting Mautic up on your own machine rather than in the cloud, rewriting about half the page.

   2026

6. 2025 2025

   Mautic Community Handbook reStructuredText conversion · Mautic 📚 Docs

   Rebuilt the whole Community Handbook in reStructuredText, the format Mautic publishes its documentation from — every section, from contributing and testing through to policies and the style guide.

   2025

7. Virtual Coffee Handbook · Virtual Coffee 📚 Docs

   Created and looked after Virtual Coffee's handbook — from how to join through to finding your way around Slack — including a 2023 reorganization of every community resource on the site.

   2021–2025

8. Virtual Coffee Monthly Challenges documentation · Virtual Coffee 📚 Docs

   Wrote the facilitator handbook and a guide for every Monthly Challenge, so the volunteers running them had something to follow instead of working it out each time.

   2024–2025

9. Virtual Coffee docs migration to Docusaurus · Virtual Coffee 📚 Docs

   Moved Virtual Coffee's documentation onto Docusaurus on my own — 192 files rebuilt and delivered as a single piece of work.

   2025

Talks, workshops, videos, courses, and podcast appearances.

1. 2025

   From Notes to Leadership: My Tech Writing Evolution · Women Techmakers Vienna — IWD 2025 🎤 Talk

   How keeping notes for myself turned into writing for communities, and then into leading the teams that maintain the docs.

   2025

2. Setting up your local environment to work with the Mautic Documentation · Mautic 🎥 Video

   A walkthrough of getting Mautic's documentation running on your own machine, so you can start making changes to it.

   2025

3. How to create a PR in the low and no code repository for your contribution to be counted · Mautic 🎥 Video

   A short walkthrough of opening a pull request in the low and no code project, so your contribution gets counted.

   2025

4. 2024

   Course Creator: Becoming a Maintainer · Open Source Communities 🎓 Course

   Wrote and published a full course taking contributors from their first change through to helping run a project — sorting incoming issues, reviewing other people's work, and keeping a community healthy.

   2024

5. Intro to Open Source Workshop · Virtual Coffee 🎤 Talk

   Co-hosted with Bekah HW: what Open Source actually is, why it is worth contributing to, and how to make a difference once you start.

   2024

6. Becoming an Open Source Maintainer Workshop · Virtual Coffee 🎤 Talk

   Co-hosted with Bekah HW: the path from regular contributor to maintainer, and what changes once you are the one deciding what gets accepted.

   2024

7. 2024

   Building Bridges, Not Walls: The Importance of Documentation in Open Source Projects · Virtual Coffee Lightning Talks 🎤 Talk

   Why documentation is what decides whether a newcomer becomes a contributor or gives up at the README.

   2024

8. 2023

   Ayu & Dominic - Hacktoberfest is Coming, Preptember is Here! · Virtual Coffee Podcast 🎙 Podcast

   Podcast episode with co-Preptember Challenge Lead Dominic, hosted by Bekah and Dan — preparing for Hacktoberfest from both the contributor and maintainer side, and avoiding burnout during the month.

   2023

9. Career Nav #34: The Power of Communities for Self-Taught Developers · Women Who Code 🎙 Podcast

   Interview with Noelle Notermann on the WWCode Career Nav podcast — learning web development as a self-taught developer and parent, and how Virtual Coffee community provided accountability and support.

   2023

10. 2022

    The Challenges of Self-Taught Dev and How to Overcome Them · Virtual Coffee 🎤 Talk

    A 10-minute lightning talk for Virtual Coffee's yearly members' event, on the challenges of learning to code without a bootcamp or school — chiefly learning alone, with no one to share the frustration with — and what helped.

    2022

11. The Collab Lab: Project Collaboration Program · Virtual Coffee 🎤 Talk

    Lunch & Learn introducing The Collab Lab to Virtual Coffee members, alongside two other speakers — the volunteer-run program that pairs early-career developers on real-world project teams. Ayu completed a cohort herself and served as a Code of Conduct Responder and a Mentor.

    2022

12. 2021

    CodeNewbie shoutout, featured in CodeLand 2021 Day 1 · CodeNewbie 🎥 Video

    A short recess video made for CodeLand Conference 2021, giving a shoutout to CodeNewbie, played during the Day 1 livestream.

    2021

13. Working through burnout as a self-taught developer · Virtual Coffee Podcast 🎙 Podcast

    Season 3, Episode 3 of the Virtual Coffee Podcast, with hosts Dan and Bekah — on combating burnout as a self-taught developer, balancing parenthood with self-directed learning, and why "it's ok to not be ok."

    2021

Awards and honors from the communities I work in.

1. 2025 2025

   Mautician of the Year · Mautic 🏆 Award

   Voted by the Mautic community for years of leading its documentation work — reviewing changes, getting releases out, and helping new writers find their footing.

   2025