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Season 4 Wrap Up - Reviewing the year and celebrating our community

Season 4, Episode 9 | December 2, 2021

In this final episode of season 4 of the podcast, Bekah and Dan bring back special guest and community maintainer, Kirk Shillingford to retro our Virtual Coffee Hacktoberfest Initiative, talk about our monthly challenges and our excitement of going into year 2 of the challenges, and we even throw in some amazing and/or awful jokes at the end.

Kirk Shillingford

Software Developer, and Community Maintainer at Virtual Coffee.

Bekah Hawrot Weigel

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

Dan Ott

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

Show Notes:

Kirk, Dan, and Bekah are back again to wrap up Season 4 of the podcast. We talk about Hacktoberfest and how proud we are of what our community did over the month of Hacktoberfest:

  • 100 members signed up,
  • 66 members merged at least 1 pr,
  • 336 collectively we merged 336 PRs were merged by these members across 129 repos.

On the virtualcoffee.io site: 81 PRs merged, 50 were new member profiles, 31 others.

We talk about the monthly challenges, including already surpassing the monthly goal for blogging half way through November, and what we're looking forward to doing in the next 12 months.

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