In this episode of the podcast, Bekah, Kirk, and Dan discuss the decision to pause new membership and what the maintainers are doing to progress towards opening the community up again. We share what we think makes our community special, how we're working to preserve that, and some of the challenges we're figuring out as we take steps towards reopening membership. What goes into the long-term strategy of making Virtual Coffee an intimate group of devs, optimized for you? You'll find out in this episode.

Links:

• DX Ball
• Omega Virus
• Othello
• virtualcoffee.io/members
• Virtual Coffee Paths to Leadership
• Suze Shardlow
• Dunbar's Number

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About Kirk Shillingford

Software Developer, and Community Maintainer at Virtual Coffee.

• @KirkCodes on Twitter
• @tkshill on GitHub

About Bekah Hawrot Weigel

Front-end developer, and Org Maintainer at Virtual Coffee.

• dev.to/bekahhw
• @bekahhw on Twitter
• bekahhw on Instagram

About Dan Ott

Front-end developer, and Org Maintainer at Virtual Coffee.

• dtott.com
• @danieltott on Twitter

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Sponsor Virtual Coffee!

Your support is incredibly valuable to us. Direct financial support will help us to continue serving the Virtual Coffee community.

Please visit our sponsorship page on GitHub for more information - you can evensponsor an episode of the podcast!

Virtual Coffee:

• Virtual Coffee: virtualcoffee.io
• Podcast Contact: [email protected]
• Bekah: dev.to/bekahhw, Twitter:https://twitter.com/bekahhw, Instagram:bekahhw
• Dan: dtott.com, Twitter:

Sponsor Virtual Coffee!

Your support is incredibly valuable to us. Direct financial support will help us to continue serving the Virtual Coffee community.

Please visit our sponsorship page on GitHub for more information - you can evensponsor an episode of the podcast!

Virtual Coffee:

• Virtual Coffee: virtualcoffee.io
• Podcast Contact: [email protected]
• Bekah: dev.to/bekahhw, Twitter:https://twitter.com/bekahhw, Instagram:bekahhw
• Dan: dtott.com, Twitter:@danieltott