I am a Krita developer and a woman, however I don’t really like Zoom. We could talk on IRC though - it would be good if you knew how to get to Krita’s official channel on IRC anyway, because it’s sometimes pretty useful. We could talk on some temporary channel like, I dunno, ##krita-contributors-temp , to not disturb people on the main channel with a big crowd. You can connect with https://web.libera.chat/ , but note that you never see the messages that happened before you connected, there is no history keeping.
And I see I’ll have to add new stuff to the Beginner coding tasks in Krita: easy and short feature requests, ready to implement …