2019

Week of Nov 18, 2019

  • Year of the mouse speaker sticker is out, thanks Huijing! Use this link to preview
  • RSVP with GitHub auth is nearly ready! Check out this PR rk-community-site#95
  • Reached out to NodeFlair who is keen on sponsoring (food + venue) for our Jan event. Will get on a call some time next week, anybody who is interested in hosting Jan should ping in group chat and join this call together

Week of Nov 11, 2019

  • We still working on Airtable RSVP
    In a few words, it's slightly harder to code GH auth purely on front end because Github prevents you from implementing the OAuth Web Application Flow on a client-side only application. Need to use some serverless workaround. Will wrap up this branch without GH auth and pick up later.

  • Met Ethan from NodeFlair who is keen on sponsoring local events, will follow up with this next week

  • Huijing keeps helping us with our site's layout ๐Ÿ’œ

Week of Nov 4, 2019

  • RK 4 happened
  • internal RSVP rk-community-site#79
  • confirmed Gatsby sponsorship for Dec's event
  • generated a rough idea of our next speaker sticker - (y)ear of the mouse
  • created a separate repo for events
    • this makes the talks repo consist solely of talks
    • we can create more templates for talk proposals (topic- or type-based, i.e., "deep-dives" can be more than 10 minutes, welcome discussion on this topic)

Week of Oct 28, 2019

  • Raj joined us!
  • Website updates
    • add external anchor to home topic listing, #65
    • lots of style fixes thanks to @Huijing again
    • add initial commands in gitpod, #69
  • maybe it's time that we have some thoughts around how to get good content out of our community rk-notes#1

Week of Oct 21, 2019

  • Thomas is in React Advanced London!
  • Adding talk listing to home page, #52, thanks @huijing, @JennieJi!

Week of Oct 14, 2019

  • Confirmed Stripe as venue sponsor for Dec 5 x JAMstack event
  • Ditched Meetup, #48

Week of Oct 7, 2019

  • RK #3 happened
    • we semi-successfully recorded ourselves, kudos ken!
    • there was a miscommunication going on with our recording with raj (check twitter chat)
  • we may all go for engineers.sg volunteer training (follow up on dates)
  • we may have DBS as a partner, will follow up in two weeks
  • we had a panelist discussion with rk originals, lessons learned
    • sending panelists prep sheets were very efficient
    • chatting is more impromptu in nature, there are good questions from the ground
    • works good on topics

a bit of random thoughts by @wgao19

  • we had a very small audience for #3
  • also wondering if we have many enough developers who would like to speak
    • good lightning talks are a lot to ask from speakers
    • in general the learning spirits of rk takes more effort
    • we're prolly not great at reaching a lot people, which is fine, we should probably work on growing our core
  • thoughts on reworking on our proposal process
    • make it private or create private channel, people may want private correspondence for this scenario
    • wondering if we should send out private invitations to people who we'd like to have
      • we've been doing this on personal level to friends anyway
      • conferences do this
  • do we want a group chat?

Week of Sept 30, 2019

  • created a hacktoberfest label for the community site, welcoming PRs to add React updates
  • a lot of rk kids were at SingaporeCSS #44 this week
  • inquired GovTech Hive for Nov 2019 (confirmed)
  • inquired Stripe for Dec 2019 (in discussion, may need to change date to Dec 5)
  • 1yo post

Week of Sept 16, 2019

  • submitted request for support to Gatsby community event
  • confirmed Dec 12 for x Gatsby / JAMstack event
  • a few changes on the community site, see changelog
  • the learning tweets seem to have had some interactions, maybe should try more

Week of Sept, 9 2019

  • proposed joint meetup with JAMstackSG potentially in Dec
  • recap event #2
  • briefed in Talk.JS what happened in our last meetup
  • added Talk.JS to friendly links
  • confirmed SP Digital for October
  • made rcs code more defensive and added sponsor list rk-community-site#30

Week of Sept 2, 2019

  • <RK issue={2} /> happened, recap
  • created event for next month