🚨 Hey <!everyone>, I would like to collaborate with someone who can tell better stories for the community 🌈 There are many stories from within the community that can inspire members from within the tribe and outside it. And I want these stories to be told - the kind that changes how people feel, and in turn what they do.

"You can’t change minds without winning hearts.”

📝  What you’ll do: Here’s how I imagine things could work out. 1. Interview RI member using Zoom. Transcribe using Otter. 2. Intentionally craft a story that connects deeply with the community 3. Publish it, share it on Twitter/LinkedIn and create the change we hope to see in the world Of course, you can tweak this framework to your liking. 💸  Compensation + Timing: I hope you can publish one story every week, which I am assuming will take 5 hours of your time. Currently, I can offer only a monthly stipend (5k INR) 😇. I have limited funds but I promise to reward you generously when I can. 📥  How to apply: Send an email to abhishek@remoteindian.com with “Storyteller” in the subject line and include: • A brief note about why you’re excited about the role • A story that you recently wrote (It can be published + linked, or drafted in google doc/pdf form!) Deadline: there’s no official deadline but I would strongly recommend getting something in my inbox by Apr 31st. PS - If you know somebody in your network who might be interested in this opportunity, please send them this google doc 🙏

📣 Hey <!everyone>, I hope you are doing ok in these terrible times. I thought 2020 was the worst year ever, but then the last week has been absolutely soul-crushing 😭 We are in the middle of a humanitarian crisis and I feel we need to do our bit in helping save as many lives as possible. 🙏 I would request you to pick at least one cause that resonates the most with you to support 👉 https://donate.indiacovidresources.in/. Please send me the receipts and I will match the total amount donated by RI members up to 50k INR (Have donated 10k till now). 🗣️ Also, I have created a #covid-sos channel to share COVID related resources, requests for help, or simply the need to be heard and seen in these difficult times ✋ Hang in there. We'll come out the other side stronger. 💪 PS - There's no social obligation to donate. It's perfectly ok if you cannot contribute right now. Wear your oxygen mask first. And take care of people around you.

👯‍♀️ RI Buddy Chats 👋 Hey <!everyone>, @broad-camera-13514, and I starting a new initiative where we are curating 1:1 introductions for members of the community! 📈 RI has grown to 1700 people and it's getting harder to meet individual members among the sea of threads and posts. This is an effort to help you meet new people and make friends within RI. 👉  Fill up the form below and you'll be paired up with someone interesting this week! https://forms.gle/1CaGV6Q5J3yLAxsU6

⏰ <!everyone> Here's a final reminder to share your details by 6 pm today 🙏 💌 Will finalize pairings and send out DMs to participants by tomorrow evening

🧹 Housekeeping alert 💌 I've just sent out messages (+calendar invites) to all the members who signed up for the RI Buddy Chats thingy this week. 🙏 If someone registered and got missed, please feel free to reach out to me. 🙂 Hope you have a great chat. PS - Thank you Sudharshan for all the help and support 🤟 ---

👋 Hey <!everyone>, I have made some changes with regards to posting on the #work-opportunities channel. 🔹 We now have a bot look into the #work-opportunities channel and if any post comes from outside (like not from Airtable or our other “authorized” posters), it pings the author with the link to the Airtable form and deletes the post(OP).  🔹 The OP text is shared in DM so that it is not lost before deleting it from the channel. 🔹 The form response will be automatically posted on the channel once reviewed. 🔹 And you will be able to reply in threads if let’s say, you have any follow-up questions. Why am I making these changes 🤔 🎀 Make sure that all postings follow a structured format (and have enough details). The goal is not to block folks from sharing opportunities but to encourage sharing in a particular format. 😇 Introduce some friction into work-opportunities channel. Would like to focus more on quality rather than quantity. 🔍 Have a system to track these listings and find out if folks are getting hired. 🌐 Share these listings on a public website and on Twitter for more visibility (WIP - 🚧). Let’s see how this experiment pans out. Please report any bugs and do share your feedback 🙏 🤟 Thanks to @faint-energy-11966, @purple-gigabyte-25824 and @loud-glass-33663 for kickstarting and giving shape to this idea 💡

This is how it should look 🤩

Hey <!everyone>, this Saturday at 5 pm, I will be hosting an AMA with @flat-morning-91037, who’s working at GitLab 🔥 In this AMA, we are going to focus on Kushal’s journey leading to GitLab. Additionally, we can cover any questions around GitLab’s Remote Playbook or tips in general for working remotely efficiently. 🌐 RSVP if you want to join us live 👉 https://lu.ma/nsbww7a8

📣 Hey <!everyone>, Here's the new job board for the RI community 👉 https://remoteindian.com/jobs 🚀 Please do have a look when you get a chance and let me know what you think 🙂

🚨 New event on Saturday at 5 pm 🎉 Hey <!everyone>, As many of you are having continuous queries regarding GST and IT on the #finance channel,@bulky-apple-90596 is putting together a session to give a basic idea of the provisions of the Income Tax Act as well as the Goods and Services Tax Act relevant for us. Income Tax: 1. Residency Test 2. Presumptive Income under section 44ADA 3. Inclusion in Total Income 4. Relevant Exemptions and Deductions under the Act 5. Tax rates and Income Tax Return GST: 1. GST Applicability 2. Meaning of export service/ zero-rated service 3. GST Chargeability 4. GST Returns We’ll also have a short Q&A round at the end. 🌐 Please register if you are interested 👉 https://lu.ma/fl9ie4z6

👋 Hey <!everyone>, I wanted to give a shoutout to all the patrons for their continued support 🙏 Also, a special round of thanks to our long-term sponsors - Scalereal and Appsmith. Coincidentally, both of them are hiring 🙂 So if you are looking out for new opportunities, please check out their careers page 👀 🔹 Scalereal - https://scalereal.com/careers/ 🔹 Appsmith - https://angel.co/company/appsmith Have a good rest of the day 🌻

📯 RI callout for diverse experts 📯 Hi <!everyone>, we are trying to create a collated directory of all CAs, lawyers, other professionals who can help us with the "other stuff" related to working remotely from India 🙌 🙏 Please share your details, and we'll share the expert directory on the Notion wiki and/or on the RI website. h/t to @faint-energy-11966 for this suggestion 🤜🤛

📹 Hey <!everyone>, Here are the recordings for last Saturday's session on Income Tax and GST for remote workers in India. A huge round of applause for @bulky-apple-90596 for sharing an informative session for the community 🤟 🔸 Income tax (24 mins) 👉 🔸 GST (23 mins) 👉

Also, here are the presentations shared in the above videos ⬇️

🙏 Hey Tribe, I quickly wanted to let you know that we have donated 30k INR to various NGOs and projects that are doing God's work in current circumstances 🙇‍♂️ I want to thank all the members who contributed to this initiative. Kudos to you for doing your bit. And while this might seem like an insignificant amount with the volume of people helping out, it truly means the world to me 🙌 Take care and stay safe <!everyone> 💪

📣 Hey <!everyone>, We have a new channel #gaming to make sure we are not "_All work and no play_ 😛".

Discuss games, showoff your rigs, cry about GPU shortages and more importantly have fun 🎮

🙌 H/t to @famous-art-1142 for starting the fire and making sure I did not procrastinate any further in creating the channel 😅 Have a good rest of the day 🌻

--- 🚨 So, we did a session a month back with Luca Dellanna on Ergodicity which I believe is one of the most important mental models in making "_remote work"_ work for you. The crux of the talk is that you want to be exposed to risks you can recover from. But not to risks whose consequences can permanently debilitate you. ⚠️ The session was a dense one, so you might want to pre-read this guide 👉 https://remoteindian.com/guides/risk-taking Either way, do watch this recording when you get a chance 👉 Cheers <!everyone>!

📣 Hey <!everyone>, I wanted to have members serendipitously talk to each other and build meaningful connections. So we started the buddy-calls initiative, which worked well, but then I became the bottleneck. Thankfully, the good folks at Donut have come to the rescue and offered a one free year of paid subscription. So now we have a very friendly and useful Slack bot that pairs folks randomly and nudges them to have a conversation 🎉 Currently, I have set up 3 channels with very different intents and frequencies 🔁 🔹#mentorship - Make introductions between mentor/mentee (every 4 weeks) 🔹#wfh-buddies - Introduce WFH pros to remote newbies for bonding and support (every 2 weeks) 🔹 #donut-be-strangers - It’s an opportunity for human connection through an open-ended chat (every 2 weeks) ✨👉 If any of the objectives resonate with you, then please join the respective channel(s) before the pairing happens on Thursday at 10 am ⏰ Let's see how this goes. And happy to receive feedback to make this better. Have a good rest of the week 🌻

👋 Hey <!everyone>, there is a 2-day live workshop next weekend on Posture and Stress Management. This workshop will cover understanding, preventing, and fixing spinal health issues through yoga. You also learn about dealing with stress through pranayama and meditative exercises. 🧘‍♀️ Remote Indian members get an exclusive discount of 30% through the coupon code - 🍀*REMOTEINDIAN30*🍀. Please don’t share the coupon code publicly, but feel free to share it with family and friends. You can know more and register 👉 here 👈. You can also reach out to @tall-advantage-5586, the founder of Yogami, for questions and feedback. Have a healthy and happy day! 💪

📣 Hey <!everyone>, Here's something to watch over the weekend (if you had missed the live zoom call). 🙏 Thank you @flat-morning-91037 for doing this AMA for the community and sorry for the late upload 😇

👋 Hello <!everyone>, I need your help! _Over the last 12 months, RemoteIndian transformed from a very niche slack group to a digital community of more than 1800 remote workers from India. It’s been a whirlwind—hosting 30+ zoom calls, shipping_ RI v3.0_, launching a job board, curating WFH tools, and getting a few un-released projects underway._ In all that, I let things slide, particularly around the content, resources, and rituals that would make our community thrive.  I’m looking for some volunteers, aka Community Champions, to get RemoteIndian to the next level! • ~5 hrs every week • Work on one specific area ◦ Community - Engage with our slack community daily as a host and connector ◦ Events - Produce weekly zoom calls, including expert chats, social mixers ◦ Newsletter - Distill and publish community insights into our weekly community newsletter ◦ Or Pitch your own role that can delight remote workers or help folks who want to start working  • Excited about remote work, being part of a bootstrapped setup, growing a community • Love playing and building in no-code • You lead with curiosity and empathy Fill this form if you’re interested!

👋 Hey <!everyone>! Here's a reminder that we've added a bot named Donut to Slack to help us get to know each other better. @nice-toothbrush-33259 will pair everyone in #donut-be-strangers every 2 weeks on Thursday and encourage them to meet (remotely 💻) for coffee ☕, lunch 🥪, or donuts 🍩. You can opt in or out by joining or leaving #donut-be-strangers. We have a similar thing going to introduce WFH pros to remote newbies for bonding and support (every 2 weeks) 👉 #wfh-buddies ⏰ If this sounds interesting, please do join the respective channel(s) before the pairing happens on Thursday at 10 am  👯‍♀️ Enjoy!

--- 🎉 New channel alert I hope #memes are allowed here 🙂 Better late than never 😇

🚨Hey <!everyone>, Here’s an exclusive opportunity to learn and master Blockchain (Web3 development) brought to you by Questbook (YC-W21). I spoke to the founder, and I am quite excited to see how they go about building the world’s first University DAO.

TL;DR – Community funds courses. Learners learn for free. Companies that participated in funding the course, get priority access to the course graduates.

Here's the plan: We will master each of the concepts in blockchain by reading the books mentioned on QuestBook. We curate groups of 8 crypto enthusiasts, read these books together & have discussions whenever someone is stuck. We start this Saturday, 26th June. If you are interested, fill the below form up and enter your Github, and the QuestBook team will reach out to you. 👉 https://forms.gle/1dczWRmwGwPtnqnu7 👈 To know more about QuestBook, please see the attached deck.  PS - Thank you, @breezy-pharmacist-22186 for initiating this idea 🙏

Sharing the deck again (not sure why it got deleted in the original post 😕)

Hey <!everyone>, I am glad to announce @polite-secretary-64403 as the new community leader for the next 3 months. She will take up the responsibility of engaging with the Slack community daily as a host and super-connector. You can DM her in case you need any specific help. If you would like to know her origin story, @stale-park-61087 published this piece recently on our website ✍️ Why am I doing this - She will bring new ideas and energy to this role. - A small step in making the RI community resilient. - Allows me to focus on building product(s) for the RI community. Let's use the 🙌 emoji to encourage and support her 🙂

Hey <!everyone>, a new feature alert 🎉 Now that ~100 jobs have been posted on the RI Job board, I felt it was a good time to add some filters .. 🥅 Filter by Experience 🥅 Filter by Category eg. Engineering 🥅 Filter by Commitment eg. Full-time 🥅 Filter by keywords eg. Javascript If you notice any bugs, please feel free to DM me 🙏

📣 Hey <!everyone>! Here's a reminder that the next round of matches for the #mentorship channel go out tomorrow morning ⏰ Please join/leave the channel before @nice-toothbrush-33259 gets to work at Thursday 10 am 🤖 Also do watch out for DMs where you need to select a group ( mentor/mentee) in order to be eligible for participation 🔀 Have a nice evening 👋

👋 Hello <!everyone>! Like we mentioned in our newsletter, the first edition of the Super Boring League is here 🎉 Get ready to get competitive 'cuz we are bringing a whole hour of fun, trivia, quizzes, memes & more. Come join us this Saturday 17th, 4:30 pm IST onwards. Have fun, play games, and win some awesome prizes! What do you need to do? 1. Complete your registration on the following link 👉 https://bit.ly/3wzvobV 2. That's it 🥳

Hey RemoteIndians, <!everyone> It is my honor and privilege to serve as a RI community manager.  🙏  In order to ensure that we remain in a positive and  collaborative environment, we’ve rolled out a set of community guidelines that will really help make RI better. RI community Guidelines. -https://bit.ly/RIGuide Guidlines covers 1. Expectation from a RI member 2. Direct Message Guidelines 3. What is not allowed 4. What do do when some one offends or breaks the rule. Note this is a draft, Please review and suggest improvements. We have a wonderful community full of passionate, helpful  Indians from all corners of the world. If you have any  suggestions on how we can improve and collaborate better, please reach out to me  Thanks. 😊