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šŸŽƒ Fall Vibes: 0kb pumpkin spice šŸ‚
Published on October 8, 2023 by TorontoJS

Hello wonderful Javascripters!

It has been 2 whole newsletters since we provided an update šŸ™€ Thanks again to Marco Campos and drey moreau

Happenings

Zeinab Farag and Chantal Gagnon organized an event for empowering women and non-binary folks in tech at VMWare Tanzu Labs

Photo cred: Yusra J.

Another JS Tech Talk, this time about DX topics at VMWare Tanzu Labs!

Shruti Vellanki on the POUR framework for shifting accessibility left
Photo credits and hot keys editing pro: Tehseen Chaudhry

Center: Rare sighting of longtime community member Nikolas LeBlanc who emerged to give a talk on DORA, SPACE framework and its role in accelerating delivery while keeping your team happy. If you are nerdy about this topic, tell us more in #techlead or #testing on Slack!

Wait, there's more!

After nearly 7 years, the TorontoJS Instagram is BACK FROM THE DEAD thanks to Sami Xie! #spooktacularJS #jk #anythingforthegram

Ken Beaudin is leading the charge with scouting for promo volunteers to keep up with our Javascriptians for our Guild migration and all the varied events coming from 4 organizers!

Spontaneity rules! Evert will be doing a pilot event, JS Website Club for freelancers and funemployed of us creatively blocked on getting our wee profiles out there.
We joke, "it's like ham radio club, but personal homepages"

Yuri Yang is hosting a blissful walk in the park for our next JS Social on Saturday Oct 21 (followed by šŸ— Korean Fried Chicken indulgence)!

Marco Campos and Dale Karp's next online Code Club on Sun Oct 22 4pm ET. Bring yer projects!

Aman Aalam and Sami Xie will be taking over in-person event programming this fall. Stay tuned!

Achievement unlocked āœØ
We're thrilled to announce YOUR very support has allowed us to gather sufficient funds to:
ā˜‘ļø pay off old outstanding bills
ā˜‘ļø have baseline operational float for the coming year

The latter wouldn't be possible without generous support from DevCycle, a recent event sponsor for JS Tech Talk.

Even more rewarding is watching volunteers become leaders and agents in the larger community, or finding career progression; shout out to:


No one in our team would have anticipated such talent and thought leadership coming out of Toronto! Bravoooo šŸ£Ā