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 codementors Discord 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.
Stammtisch
A place to meet for networking or discussion with other codementors is the "codementors Stammtisch". We meet every second week for around one hour on Wednesday at 20:00 CET. If you would like to take part, take a look at the codementors calendar or join our codementors Discord. The meeting takes place online. In irregular intervals we may meet in person.
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 codementors Discord.
Current Books
The Readers Club is currently paused.
Previous Books
- November 2023 - March 2024 Domain Modelling Made Functional by Scott Wlaschin
- Mai 2023 - November 2023 Software Architecture: The Hard Parts by Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, Zhamak Dehghani
- 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 |