Community
codementors is a community of passionated Software Developer. It was founded by Sascha Bleidner, Daniel Haftstein and Jens Meinecke on 16th of July in 2019.
Naming
As we all know: Naming is one of the hardest challenges in writing code. The same applies for the name of this community. We worked for hours to come up with a good name for this community.
Finally, we settled on the name codementors. Its easy to remember and includes our main goals for this community: coding and mentoring. That is what we want to do: Educating people to become better programmers and ultimately software craftspeople.
Naming convention: codementors is always written in lower case letters.
Chat
We use the slack channel codementorsde.slack.com to share information and communicate with each other. We try to preserve relevant information in this handbook to make it easier to find and reuse this information.
MeetUps
We irregularly meet for Meetups (mostly online) to share knowledge and to train our software craftspeople skills.
The Readers Club
We read and study books together. We meet every week for one hour on Wednesday at 20:00 CET (see: codementors calendar). If you are interested, please contact us in codementorsde.slack.com.
Current Books
- since Mai 2023: Software Architecture: The Hard Parts by Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, Zhamak Dehghani
Previous Books
- January 2023 - Mai 2023: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by Bruce A. Tate
- Mid 2022 - November 2022: Clean Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin
- January 2022 - Mid 2022: Patterns, Principles, and Practices of Domain-Driven Design by Scott Millett and Nick Tune
Calendar
We publish the time and location of all our events in this codementors calendar
History
One day we may look back and ask ourselves: How did it come to this?
| Date | Milestone | History |
|---|---|---|
| 16/07/2019 | Founding | First Meeting with the title: Werkstattgespräch "Dev Gilde" |
| 13/08/2019 | Name is fixed | We finally agreed on a name: codementors.de was registered as a domain. |
| 06/09/2019 | First merchandise | First codementors T-Shirts ordered |
| 13/10/2020 | KotlinCodeCamp | First weekly Kotlin learning event launched |
| 10/01/2022 | TheReadersClub | codementors started with the new format: TheReadersClub |