Virtual Coffee - August 2024

Hey Friends!

After a month of welcoming new community, we’re decided to take some time outside! As programmers, we spend all day in front of the screen. Let's get folks out and about!

💞 Kindness and Gratitude

Spotlighting some of the kindness happening in our community.

Grateful for folks in VC who gave me recommendations for todo list apps a few months ago. - Brian

Grateful for the things I have learnt by just listening in VC. - Taiwo

I am grateful to Andy and Justin for addressing my Visual Studio Code problem so quickly in #help-and-pairing Problem solved! - Joan

📆 What's happening at Virtual Coffee

July Recap

💡Monthly Theme & Challenge: New Member Welcome!

We spent the month opening the space up to new members. Having an influx of new folks in the space keeps the community healthy, thriving, and moving forward. Cheers to all our new members!

August: Community Kindness!

💡Monthly Theme & Challenge: Photograph Challenge!

This challenge asks the community to get outside! Go out into the world, have some great moments and then bring them back to share with the community. We’re more than our times behind the desk and we want to see all the cool things our members get up to. So we’re asking everyone to share those moments of joy and fun and happiness with each other, and turn the space into a place of inspiration, wonderment, and beauty.

Learn more about this challenge in this blog post.

To view all of the details of this year's challenge, check out the August 2024 challenge page.

☕🪑 Coffee Table Events

• Tech Interview Study Group (Mondays at 4:00 PM ET)

• Accountabilibuddies (Tuesdays at 7:00 PM ET | Thursdays at 9:00 AM ET)

• The Pack Hunt (Tandem Job Hunting) (Wednesdays at 2:00 PM ET)

• Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) Office Hours (Wednesdays at 4:00 PM ET)

• Feelings Friday (Fridays at 8:00 PM ET)

• Frontend Friday Folks fighting CSSBattle.dev (Fridays at 11:00 AM ET)

📅 Weekly Async Events

• Mondays: Goal-setting post in #goals-and-wins

• Tuesdays: Trivia in #game-night

• Wednesdays: Midweek check-in in #general

• Fridays:

  • Rust Learning Cohort check-in in #learning-together

  • X (formerly Twitter) chat and gratitude post in #general

☕ Official Virtual Coffee Events

• Virtual Coffee (Tuesdays at 9:00 AM ET | Thursdays at 12:00 PM ET)

• Async Twitter Chat (Weekly chat begins every Friday at 9:00 AM ET)

Note: These are the currently scheduled times for these events at the time of this publication. Please check the official VC #announcements Slack channel, or other noted channels, for any updates and links to event rooms. For the full list of events, check out our events page.

🆕 New Career Focus Channels Alert

We've added three new private channels — Senior+, Mid-level, Early-career — to our Slack for peer-to-peer conversation, because we know that it's good to be able to support and nurture conversations specific to your career level. If you're interested in joining the one you identify with most, DM Bekah or Meg on Slack.

🤝 Volunteering at VC

We're very excited to continue open membership with the support of our active volunteers! All our active volunteers have an invite to send out to someone interested in joining Virtual Coffee. If you're interested in joining the volunteer team, check out some the roles here!

✨ Member Content Highlights

Our members are making the internet a better place with their words and wisdom!

Articles

• The Compound Interest Of Open Source: How Collaboration Leads To Growth - Bekah Hawrot Weigel

• Boosting Web Form Efficiency: Jörn Bernhardt

Videos

• Elixirlang with Brian Meeker and Nick Taylor

🏆 Member Wins

• Pumped that I can announce that I’m giving a talk at Netlify Compose this year! - Nick Taylor

• Added user accounts, a Library, ability to save stories for my kids story-generating app-launched today! - Mike Cavaliere

• Got honorable mention in the "You're so Nashville. If.."  contest ran by the local entertainment independent paper. - Chris Jarvis

👀 What our members are up to

• Chris J. does a weekly post for goals of the week.

• Dominic Duffin co-hosts ArtTechChat on Twitter every Sunday at 1:00 PM ET.

• Ray Deck is co-hosting a vid-pod about low code/no code solutions on YouTube!

• Michael Jolley is streaming on twitch!

💻 Resource Highlights!

Monthly Challenge: Welcoming Community - Ayu Adiati

🏆️ Sponsors

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If you're a member and you’d like to give a Lunch & Learn or Workshop, you can submit your idea here.

Have a question, suggestion, or want to nominate someone’s act of kindness or blog post? Email us at [email protected].