Virtual Coffee Monthly Challenges

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:

• Monthly Challenge for November, 2021: 50k words!

  November challenge -> Blogging: we all work together to hit 50,000 words.

• Monthly Theme & Challenge for October, 2021: HacktoberFest!

  October challenge -> Participate to Hacktoberfest! This month, our members will participate to the DigitalOcean HacktoberFest by being maintainers, contributors, or mentors.

• Monthly Theme & Challenge for 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.

• Monthly Theme & Challenge for 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

• Monthly Theme & Challenge for 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.

• Monthly Theme & Challenge for 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

• Monthly Challenge for 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.

• Monthly Challenge for April, 2021: Community Kindness!

  April challenge -> Celebrating one year of Virtual Coffee by focusing on what make this community special: Kindness

• Monthly Challenge for 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

• Monthly Challenge for 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

• Monthly Challenge for January, 2021: Month of Learning!

  January challenge -> New year, time to learn new things. Four weeks, four check-ins.

• Monthly Challenge for December, 2020: Pairing!

  December challenge -> Pair up and complete five pomodoro sessions with other community members.

• Monthly Challenge for November, 2020: 50k words!

  November challenge -> Blogging: we all work together to hit 50,000 words.