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Virtual Coffee Newsletter, August 2022

Virtual Coffee is Making Healthy Habits and Welcoming New Members 💝

Hey friends!

It's time to keep ourselves steady with some Healthy Habits in August!


💞 Community Kindness

Spotlighting some of the kindness happening in our community.

"Today was the first time demo-ing an app I've built to a live audience. I'm grateful to VC for providing that opportunity!"

Rebecca

"Grateful for Julia and Marie for all the feedback in April!"

Glen

"Whenever I'm reading a book about some bit of the tech industry it reminds me how grateful I am to be part of this bit of the industry here, where people are kind and supportive, even towards people working on projects other than the specific ones they favour."

Dominic

📆 What's happening at Virtual Coffee

July Recap

Monthly challenge -> All About Building in Public!

We spent July working on our projects and sharing that process with compatriots and well-wishers. Shout out to all the VC members who showed off what they did on demo day!

Volunteering at VC

Over the last few months, we've been trying to improve our documentation and support here at VC. We're very excited to be opening up membership! All of 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!

August Happenings

💡 Monthly Theme & Challenge: Healthy Habits for Happy Devs!

This month's challenge is all about nourishing our bodies, minds, and spirits so that we can become healthier developers.

Build a new habit that will make you a healthier dev, this can be mind and body-centered (drink, move, read, meditate, rearrange your work station) or code-centered (review your ReadMe, clean your code, refresh your GitHub repo) or both.

Set the goal for yourself this month and define what successfully completing the challenge looks like. For example, could be something like: review the README in 5 of your projects (one every week) or run 2k twice a week.

You can check out our monthly challenge page for more ideas on on getting started with our sharing challenge.

☕🪑 Coffee Table Events

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.


Member Highlights

Lunch & Learn Sessions

We've had some amazing L&L's lately! Here's our latest.

Podcast

We're back with Season 6 of the podcast!

Blogposts

Here's some of the awesome articles our members wrote last month!

Member Wins

As always, shout-out to all our members celebrating new roles this month!

"Finally did my first in-person talk ever! Met so many nice folks at Phoenix JavaScript afterwards."

Lucia

"You guys…I built my first “project” project (as in, not lesson challenges and homework) with JS!"

Debra-Kaye

"Finishing up and prepping to demo the first big feature I've owned at my current job. It has been a looong process. it feels so good to finally make it to the end stages!"

Courtney

What our members are up to

Open Source Projects


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