Hey Friends!
It's April and Lightning Talks are quickly approaching! So we're doing everything we can to get geared up to share our knowledge, learnings, and insights!
💞 Kindness and Gratitude
Spotlighting some of the kindness happening in our community.
"So grateful to find so many encouraging people!"
"Grateful also as always for this community."
"I am also grateful for all the encouragement Julia gave me this week; it helped me break out of my shell."
"Grateful for the VC Community, Good health, Family, getting assigned another client this month."
📆 What's happening at Virtual Coffee
March Recap
💡Monthly Theme & Challenge: Getting Job Ready!
We spent the month working on resumes, cover letters, interview skills, and all thing getting ready to work! Shoutout to all our community members who participated!
April: Find Your Voice with Public Speaking!
💡Monthly Theme & Challenge: Public Speaking!
Whether you're preparing for a keynote, a tech talk, or just want to get more comfortable speaking in public, we've got your back.
During this month, we'll be breaking down the art of public speaking into manageable steps, focusing on different aspects each week. Throughout the month, we'll provide resources, tips, and opportunities to practice and get feedback from the community.
To view all of the details of this year's challenge, check out the April 2024 challenge page on the Virtual Coffee website.
☕🪑 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)
- 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
- Rust Learning Cohort check-in in
☕ 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
- Coding Out Loud: Why I'm Choosing to "Learn in Public" — Julia Alexis Diaz
- Collaborate, Conquer, & Grow: Mastering the Art of Issue Management for Open Source Projects — Ayu Adiati
- Stuck in the Middle with You: An intro to Middleware — Nick Taylor
Videos
🏆 Member Wins
Brave. Bold. Fearless. Our very own Meg spent 4+ hours working on Rust (
#doitlive) this weekend. While I don’t always advocate weekend work, what a great show of effort and inclusion to work through what we’re doing in the Rust#learning-togethercohort live. Live! On YouTube and Twitch! Congrats and way to go Meg.
"DEV picked my WeCoded post for their Top 7 Posts of the Week."
"Pretty pleased I managed from a mkdir to a "working" & publicly hosted website in under 45 minutes"
"Im on the news! WXTL did a little article of the class I teach"
👀 What our members are up to
- Chris J. does a weekly post for goals of the week.
- Nick Taylor's newsletter keeps you up to date with the hot topics in tech.
- 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!
💻 Open Source Projects
- VirtualCoffee.io — a Remix Web App for our community created by Dan Ott.
- FreeCodeCamps's Developer Quiz Site — A newbie friendly repo that frequently accepts OSS contributions.
- OpenSauced's Docs — A static rendered documentation for open source developer onboarding to OpenSauced's projects.
- Intro to Open Source — An introduction to open source and guide through the process of contributing to projects.
- Python Turtle Art Canvas — The aim of this project is to create a collaborative piece of creative coding using Python Turtle Graphics.
- Hacktoberfest How To — Hugo blog template for Hacktoberfest HOW-TO.
- Classic Memory Game — Memory card game from 1968.
- Tiny Troves of Dev Wisdom — A small Unity 2D game made for Hacktoberfest 2023.
- Elm TTRPG Session — A session manager, ttrpg character builder, and dice roller built with Elm and Lamdera.
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 hello@virtualcoffee.io.