👋 <!channel> If you are having a lazy Sunday (like I am), you should check out this awesome conversation I had around a month back with @ancient-van-29120 🎧 Getting the Job You've Always Wanted: a short AMA about my new job at Doist at RemoteIndian 👉 https://vishnugopal.com/2020/05/17/getting-the-job-youve-always-wanted/

📣 Hi <!everyone> Here are the details for this week’s Campfire session 🏕️ Topic: Why being a software craftsman gives you an edge in freelancing/remote work. Panelists: @nice-country-1598,@crooked-ghost-83128, and @victorious-energy-56764 Agenda • What is craftsmanship? • How to develop a craftsman mindset? • How to use craftsmanship to leverage most out of remote work or freelancing? Register here 👉 https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlcequqzkjEtfUJeb-LJX8IB_NqE9uqNfQ P.S. - I will be a happy listener in the audience this time 🙂

If you have any ideas/topics that you'd like to suggest for RI Campfire calls, then please DM me 🙏🏼

Hi <!everyone>, We'll have to postpone this Saturday's call to sometime next week. It was a busy week for all the panelists and we wanted to have more time to prepare for this call. Hope you understand 🙏 For folks who have already registered, you will receive updates on your email directly.

📣 <!channel> To get a better insight about compensation for folks working remotely from India, I am inviting all of you to anonymously share your salary. We'll share the google sheet with you when we have at least 30 responses. If you have any issues (or suggestions), please DM me. P.S. - Kudos to @clean-salesmen-57717 for kickstarting this initiative 🙌

Wow! This was an unexpected response. We got more than 30 entries pretty quickly. Here is the response sheet with the clear disclaimer that you process this data with a pinch of salt. The intention of this exercise is to figure out the possibilities and not get discouraged by the extremes. Thanks for participating 🙌

⏰ Hey <!channel>, the session on "Software Craftmanship" will happen this Saturday at 5 pm. Folks who haven't registered before, please do so using the link in the quoted message below 🙏

party parrot Hi <!channel> I am very happy to launch the new home of the community which helps to • Compress all the knowledge we are collecting in the slack group • Add/edit a guide or submit an interview via Github PRs • Change the design, add new features, improve the site's codebase, etc I hope by open-sourcing this project, I have planted a seed for some interesting possibilities 🌱 Over to you folks! Let's see what we create 🎨

P.S. - I will be pleased if somebody can take ownership of maintaining this project

👋 Hi <!everyone>, I am writing to you because I need your support so that I can put in the time and effort to make the RemoteIndian community a great place to hang out and learn from each other. The RI project is bootstrapped and it's definitely a full-time job.

The goal of the RI project is to create a blueprint for remote workers in India so that we can build our career sustainably over a 10-20 year period.

If you believe this vision is a worthy one, then please consider making a contribution 🙏 ☕️ Buy me a coffee ( 150 rupees/month ) 🥤 Become a contributor ( 350 rupees/month ) 🙌 Become a supporter( 700 rupees/month ) 🥇 Become a TOP supporter(

1400 rupees/month

) 🎁 What are the perks involved Your name will be displayed on the RemoteIndian thanks page. For Contributor, Supporter and TOP supporter tiers, you will get access to • Recording of Weekly zoom calls where we dive into topics like Personal Finance for Remote workers, Health Insurance etc • Insider emails every month sharing some stats, roadmaps, and stories • AMA with Abhishek 🤗 A big thank you to our generous donators who support us via Patreon. However, I have decided to transition to RazorPay to receive donations so that • The maximum percent of your ₹ goes towards the community rather than 3rd party charges like USD conversion, admin fees, etc • You can donate even if you don’t have a credit card with international payments enabled (which was the case with Patreon) 💌 Please DM me if you’d like to contribute to the RemoteIndian project and I will set up a link for you 🙂

📣 <!channel> An important announcement: If you think someone in the community is not respecting the code of conduct or is making you uncomfortable, send a DM to @many-minister-78351, @loud-glass-33663, or me. We will respect your confidentiality. Let's keep the good vibes going! CoC 👉 https://github.com/remoteindian/remoteindian/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

🚨 Gentle reminder that this session is happening tomorrow at 5pm.

📣 Hey <!everyone>, I am very happy to announce ScaleReal as the first sponsors of the RemoteIndian project 🎉 ScaleReal is a remote-first company working asynchronously to help people across the globe to build and scale their dream projects. I want to thank @crooked-ghost-83128, founder of ScaleReal, for proposing to support the community considering we’re still at a nascent stage 🙏

👋 Hey <!everyone>, it's time to switch on your webcams 📹 We are kickstarting a new experiment called “Wall of Wins”, where people can share wins from the week/progress they are making! The hope is that these short videos will add a more human touch to this remote environment and is a fun way to provide motivation to everyone here 💪 Also, you can type in

/record

 to send a video message to someone in your DMs or on any channel! Here's a gif of what this looks like in action: 🙌 Kudos to @icy-librarian-70729, the founder of standups.io, for reaching out to me with this idea. P.S. - Check out the first video I recorded 👉 #wall-of-wins 👀 . We are mostly introverts here. So this should be fun 😅

📣 <!everyone> A lot of folks here might be interested in building a SaaS product one day 🙋‍♂️ That is why I asked @witty-gigabyte-47737 and @numerous-zoo-23860, who are doing a great job as founders of their respective companies, to come and talk about the process of finding the right problems to solve. ⏰ 👉 4th July, 5 pm 🌐 👉 https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrd-2srD0sHtQ6lEb0qhTsOn98p25a8SiL If you have any questions specifically about the topic of "_How to find and validate ideas_", please feel free to share them on #ama channel.

📣 Hello <!everyone>, Here's the edited recording of the last RI Campfire session on Software Craftmanship Please listen to it when you get a chance 🎧 And if you enjoy the conversation, please share it with your friends and colleagues 🙏 https://anchor.fm/remoteindian/episodes/RI-Why-being-a-software-craftsperson-matters-eg9j3t

🚨 Hey <!everyone>, This Saturday we’re not having a zoom call but next weekend we have one lined up on Nutrition 101 🥘 which I am pretty excited about. Details to be shared early next week.

📣 Also, I wanted to give a shoutout to @able-salesmen-17286 who has been making edits to the interviews on the beta site 🤘

✍️ Hey <!everyone>, I drafted a couple of guides over the weekend. Do have a look when you get a chance. And feel free to suggest any changes 🙏  1️⃣ How to make "work from home" work for you 2️⃣ 🎧 Music for productivity ⚡

📣 <!everyone> In this week's RI Campfire session, we will have Dharini share some tips on eating healthy while working from home 🍽️ IMO, Nutrition plays a key role in optimizing your Health, Energy, and Happiness. Looking forward to this! ⏰ 👉  18th July, 5 pm 🌐 👉 Registration Link

<!channel> Hey everyone, We are starting the session now!

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"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up" - Oliver Wendell Holmes

👋 Hey <!everyone>, A lot of folks come to me with ideas and suggestions to make this space better. Also, some of you want to help out. And I have not been able to respond well enough to these earnest calls of outreach.  Some of it has to do with the fact that I have limited bandwidth. And some of it because I didn’t have a process to manage these conversations. I feel now is a good time to introduce the RI Idea Bank where you can add your suggestions/ideas/feedback. Also, if you want to, you can take ownership of a project through this list. There are 10+ ideas already posted. Go have a look and upvote the ones which resonate with you 🤩

📣 <!everyone> In this week's RI Campfire session, we will have @cold-nest-70029 share a really solid deck on Salary Negotiation 🔥 Here’s the outline - The negotiation framework - Job offer negotiation - Case studies ⏰👉 25th July, 5 pm 🌐👉 Registration Link

👋 Hi <!everyone>, the RemoteIndian project needs your love to keep iterating to the next level. I need your financial support so that I can put in the time and effort to make this community a great place to hang out and make remote work a tad easier. If you have found any value from the tribe, then please consider making a contribution 🙏 ☕ Buy me a coffee ( 150 rupees/month ) 🥤 Become a contributor ( 350 rupees/month ) 🙌 Become a supporter( 700 rupees/month ) 🥇 Become a Top supporter( >1400 rupees/month ) 🏆 Become a Sponsor ( 7k rupees/month ) 💌 Please DM me if you’d like to contribute to the RemoteIndian project and I will set up a Razorpay link for you ⚡ 🙌 A big thank you to our current patrons. Without your encouragement, I would have certainly called it quits.

📣 Hey everyone! FYI, the zoom calls are only for the RI community. So please refrain from sharing the registration link on public networks 🙏 Folks who are not part of the slack group might play spoilsport. Having some skin in the tribe(even though it's just a signup) helps to create a safe space in the zoom calls.

Hey <!everyone> We are going to start the call in 10 mins ☝️

📣 Hey <!channel>, we are starting a community-driven mentoring platform 👥

Why are we doing this experiment? We want the average member to expect more from themselves by talking to the top 20% members of this tribe.

If you feel you can guide folks (on specific topics) in RemoteIndian community and are ok with opening up your calendar, then please fill this form 👉 https://airtable.com/shr6sTfbCdf5TsBrL  Make sure that it's healthy for you while deciding available slots in your calendar. We will surely iterate on this based on the feedback we get.

📣 <!channel> This Saturday, we have an AMA session with @lively-kitchen-45586 which should be pretty rad 🔥 Currently, Sarup is participating in ODF4 but before that, he used to run all things business at Vercel (previously ZEIT). In the past, he has led frontend engg. at Canopy (prev. Mesitis Capital), Ticketsolve, and been an active member of various open-source communities (Fedora, Babel, Ember, etc). 👉 If you are interested, please register to get the details of the zoom call. 

Note: We are having the live AMA session on Saturday 11am (instead of our regular time of 5pm)

Lastly, Please start posting your questions on the #ama channel. They will be given higher priority 🥇

📣 Hi <!everyone>, We are restarting the RI Watercooler sessions from this week 🎉 ⚠️ Please note that these calls will be informal and raw. So please keep your expectations on the lower side 🙏 Also, these calls will not be recorded. Topic: Loneliness and Remote Work (based on the poll we had) Time: Friday 5 pm Format • Quick intro of all participants - 10 mins • Set some context for the discussion - 10 mins • Breakout rooms using prompts - 30 mins • Summary of discussion in breakout rooms and closing thoughts - 10 mins 🌐 Register here 👉 https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvdOihpzwrG93T3WF65YnHr1Dckz4WUImg Let’s see how this works out 🤞 P.S. - I know we are having a double header this weekend, so please choose to participate wisely.

🚨 Just a gentle reminder that we are having this call today evening at 5.