Why should members participate in the monthly challenge?
These monthly challenges provide members the opportunity to learn, grow, and receive support and mentorship. There will be a theme for each month's challenge and weekly goals for the members to work on. Instructions, resources, and additional help for the challenges is provided in the #monthly-challenge channel in slack. Along with our Maintainers, our Challenge Team Leads plan, organize, and facilitate these challenges.
Who can participate?
These challenges are available to all Virtual Coffee members and the goal is to support developers of all stages in their coding journey. To become a member of Virtual Coffee, all you need to do is attend a Tuesday or Thursday Coffee and submit the form you'll receive at coffee. After you submit the form, you will receive an invitation to join the slack group where you can share your progress on the challenges and ask questions.
Our challenges so far:
- February, 2023: Get job ready! Resumes, Cover Letters, and Elevator Pitch
February challenge -> There is never a bad time to work on job application materials and your elevator pitch
- January, 2023: Month of Learning!
January challenge -> New year, time to learn new things. Four weeks, four check-ins.
- December, 2022: Creative Community Challenge
December challenge -> Let's make some space for the other parts of ourselves.
- November, 2022: 100k words!
November challenge -> Blogging: we all work together to hit 100,000 words.
- October, 2022: Hacktoberfest!
October challenge -> Participate to Hacktoberfest! This month, our members will participate to the DigitalOcean Hacktoberfest by being maintainers, contributors, or mentors.
- September, 2022: Preptember!
September challenge -> Get ready for Hacktoberfest! This month, our member maintainers will cleanup their repos, and our members getting ready to contribute will be writing good issues.
- August, 2022: Healthy Habits for Happy Devs
August challenge -> This month challenge is all about nourish our body, mind and spirit and give a step forward to become a healthier dev
- July, 2022: Demo in public!
July challenge -> Let's build in public, starting with Daily Standup! During this month, let's learn to communicate what we're working on, show our development, be confident and proud of any progress we've made, and demo what we've done!
- June, 2022: Giving meaningful and empathetic feedback
June Challenge -> Being a developer is more than writing code, so this month let's work on providing each other with honest and empathetic feedback.
- May, 2022: Community Kindness!
May challenge -> Heading strong into year three! This month, we are focusing on what make this community special: Kindness
- April, 2022: Get job ready! Resumes, Portfolios, Cover Letters, and Elevator Pitch
April challenge -> There is never a bad time to work on job application materials and your elevator pitch
- March, 2022: Creating Audio/Visual content
March challenge -> Break out your cameras and your microphones. This month we are working on AV content
- February, 2022: Pairing!
February challenge -> Pair up and complete five pomodoro sessions with other community members.
- January, 2022: Month of Learning!
January challenge -> New year, time to learn new things. Four weeks, four check-ins.
- December, 2021: Creative Community Challenge
December challenge -> Creativity: Let's make some space for the other parts of ourselves.
- November, 2021: 50k words!
November challenge -> Blogging: we all work together to hit 50,000 words.
- October, 2021: Hacktoberfest!
October challenge -> Participate to Hacktoberfest! This month, our members will participate to the DigitalOcean Hacktoberfest by being maintainers, contributors, or mentors.
- September, 2021: Preptember!
September challenge -> Get ready for Hacktoberfest! This month, our member maintainers will cleanup their repos, and our members getting ready to contribute will be writing good issues.
- August, 2021: Healthy Habits for Healthy Devs
August challenge -> This month challenge is all about nourish our body, mind and spirit and give a step forward to become a healthier dev
- July, 2021: Demoing in Public
July challenge -> VC Members learned to discuss and share their work throughout June and are now ready to move to the next level, demoing that work.
- June, 2021: Build in Public
June challenge -> Working on building a habit to build in public, show our growth, and be proud of our progress
- May, 2021: Giving meaningful and empathetic feedback
May Challenge -> Being a developer is more than writing code, so this month let's work on providing each other with honest and empathetic feedback.
- April, 2021: Community Kindness!
April challenge -> Celebrating one year of Virtual Coffee by focusing on what make this community special: Kindness
- March, 2021: Get job ready! Resumes, Portfolios, Cover Letters, and Elevator Pitch
March challenge -> There is never a bad time to work on job application materials and your elevator pitch
- February, 2021: Show your work! Creating Audio Visual content
Feb challenge -> Break out your cameras and your microphones. This month we are working on AV content
- January, 2021: Month of Learning!
January challenge -> New year, time to learn new things. Four weeks, four check-ins.
- December, 2020: Pairing!
December challenge -> Pair up and complete five pomodoro sessions with other community members.
- November, 2020: 50k words!
November challenge -> Blogging: we all work together to hit 50,000 words.