November 2023 Newsletter

Community highlight

This month's community highlight goes to Davidson!!

Davidson has earned this month’s community highlight due to their exceptional contributions to our community. Their continuous effort to build a program that ensures that members of the community have access to resources that inform them about the code review process has been nothing short of amazing!

Davidson, this month's award is for you!! Thank you for being a part of our community and we can’t wait to see what you do with the mob review session! :nemo_techtank: :nemo_techtank:

In case you missed it

Large Language Models: What Are They And How Do We Use Them?

Last month we were at the Cohere office as Luis Serrano’s gave an amazing talk titled: Large Language Models: What Are They and How do We Use Them?

If you missed Luis Serrano’s amazing talk, the full recording is available here!

From Junior to Mid-Level & Beyond: Strategies for Career Advancement

We hosted a panel discussion centred around levelling up from a Junior developer to an intermediate developer, senior developer and beyond! Thank you to our amazing panellists Jules, Randall, and Danny for awesome insights into the expectations, challenges, and strategies for mid-level developers.

If you didn’t get a chance to attend the fantastic session then checkout using this link. Passcode: &8ud34RK

TechTank at Niagara Glen

Last month we had an awesome hiking trip down in the Niagara Glen area! The days leading up to this trip had rain scheduled but thankfully the trip commenced without a hitch! We also got to learn that one of these dogs REALLY loves the water haha!! Shoutout to 🐶 for being an absolute champ!

Spooooky Season 👻

To end off October, we had our inaugural Halloween party! Shoutout to everyone for making it such a fun night!

Gratitudes with Nemo /thanks

Last month we released a few new features for Nemo and these features were designed with one goal in mind — We want to provide ways to strengthen community bond!! 💜

We released our thanks feature because we believe in recognizing and celebrating each other's contributions, and that's why we're integrating gratitudes (with a unique twist) directly into Nemo. Within a message or by itself, Simply type !thanks @username or !thanks @username @username, share your reasons for gratitude or give a well-deserved shout-out. You can also thank multiple people at the same time! You can go into any of the public channels, start sharing your thanks and make someone's day!

Contact Admins with /notify-admins

Have a question or concern that you want to privately send to the admin team but aren’t sure who or how to reach out🤔? Don’t you fret! Let us know by using the /notify-admins command!

For you Information

Mob review sessions

Davidson is starting mob review sessions — a synchronous session where members of a group (typically a team) get together to review a PR. Here, authors will be provided with the opportunity to explain their changes and reviewers will have an opportunity to share their thoughts and questions about the PR. So if you have any open PRs feel free to submit them in the #study-tank channel!

Are you interested in giving a talk at one of our TechTalk events?

Fill out the form here and one of our admin team will get back to you :saluting_face:

Nemo Commands

Wondering what commands you have access to with Nemo?

• /notify-admins: Have a question or concern that you want to privately send to the admin team but aren’t sure who or how to reach out🤔? Don’t you fret! Let us know by using the /notify-admins command!
• !thanks: Within a message or by itself, Simply type !thanks @username or !thanks @username @username, share your reasons for gratitude or give a well-deserved shout-out. You can go into any of the public and start sharing your thanks and making someone's day today!
• /suggestions: We would love to hear your ideas! So at any time, feel free to use the /suggestion command to send your ideas directly to the admin team.
• /coffee-bio: This allows you to edit your coffee chat bio which will be used to introduce you to
• /coffee-activate: This allows you to activate your coffee chat profile. Your profile is active by default when you join the channel
• /coffee-deactivate: This allows you to deactivate your coffee chat profile without leaving the coffee chat channel
• /jokes: Want Nemo to send a joke to your favourite channel? Use /jokes followed by the category to share a joke

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