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172 changes: 172 additions & 0 deletions src/app/monthlychallenges/(challenges)/dec-2025/page.tsx
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import Link from 'next/link';
import LeadText from '@/components/content/LeadText';

const handle = {
listTitle: 'December 2025: Share Your Tradition',
meta: {
title: 'Monthly Challenge for December 2025: Share Your Tradition',
description:
"December challenge -> Let's celebrate the diverse cultures and traditions within our community.",
},
date: '2025-12-01',
hero: {
heroHeader: '',
},
};

export const metadata = handle.meta;

export default function Challenge() {
return (
<>
<h1>
<small>Monthly Challenge for December 2025:</small> Share Your Tradition
</h1>

<p className="lead text-center mt-3">
Let's celebrate the diverse cultures and traditions within our
community.
</p>

<h2 className="mt-5 mb-3">The Challenge</h2>
<p>
December is often a time of reflection and celebration for many, marked
by diverse holidays. However, this challenge is not limited to winter or
current-month festivities. We want to hear about{' '}
<strong>any tradition</strong> that holds meaning for you, whether it's
tied to a season, a birthday, a summer vacation, or an everyday
household custom.
</p>
<p>
This challenge is a month-long celebration of storytelling, reflection,
and connection. It's your chance to share photos, recipes, and personal
stories of how you and your loved ones celebrate life's moments. Our
goal is to engage our community, help us all learn more about each
other, and provide built-in support for anyone who might find themselves
alone during the holidays. Let's make this an engaging, asynchronous
experience where you can share your traditions in the way that feels
most interesting and fun for you.
</p>

<h2 className="mb-3">How to Participate</h2>
<p>
You can share your traditions by starting a new thread or replying to an
existing one in the <code>#monthly-challenge</code> channel.
</p>

<h3 className="mb-3">Start the Conversation</h3>
<p>
Kick off your sharing by answering this prompt as the first message in
your new thread:
</p>
<LeadText>
<p>
"Share one tradition (any season, any time of year) and tell us what
makes it meaningful to you."
</p>
</LeadText>

<h4 className="my-4">Thread Ideas to Inspire You</h4>
<ul>
<li className="mb-3">
<strong>🍽️ Food & Recipes:</strong> Share a recipe, dish, or food
tradition you love (a photo is a bonus!).
</li>
<li className="mb-3">
<strong>🎵 Music & Playlists:</strong> Share music, songs, or
playlists that are part of your tradition.
</li>
<li className="mb-3">
<strong>📚 Tradition-in-a-Book:</strong> Share a book, poem, or story
connected to a tradition.
</li>
<li className="mb-3">
<strong>🐾 Pet Traditions:</strong> Do your pets celebrate with you?
Share their customs!
</li>
<li className="mb-3">
<strong>🔨 Tradition-Inspired Crafts or DIY:</strong> Share photos or
steps for a craft you make for a tradition.
</li>
<li className="mb-3">
<strong>💡 Lights & Lanterns:</strong> Share photos of beautiful light
displays, night light traditions, or cultural lanterns.
</li>
<li className="mb-3">
<strong>🏡 Places & Decorations:</strong> Share a photo of a place,
decoration, or display connected to a tradition important to you or
your family.
</li>
<li className="mb-3">
<strong>🤣 Traditions That Make You Laugh:</strong> share a funny,
quirky, or unexpected tradition.
</li>
<li className="mb-3">
<strong>👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family & Community:</strong> Share a story about a
tradition that brings people together.
</li>
<li className="mb-3">
<strong>⏩ Passing It On:</strong> What tradition are you currently
passing on to others?
</li>
<li className="mb-3">
<strong>🆕 Invented Traditions:</strong> What's a unique tradition
you've invented for yourself or your family?
</li>
<li className="mb-3">
<strong>🌱 New Traditions:</strong> What tradition did you start as an
adult, or one you want to begin?
</li>
<li className="mb-3">
<strong>🗑️ Retired Traditions:</strong> What's a tradition you stopped
doing (and why)?
</li>
</ul>

<h3 className="mb-3">Lunch and Learns</h3>
<p>
Do you have a hands-on tradition you'd like to share, such as baking a
special dish, demonstrating a cultural craft, or sharing the history
behind a custom? We encourage you to share it through a{' '}
<Link href="/resources/virtual-coffee-handbook/guides-to-virtual-coffee/lunch-and-learns">
Lunch and Learns
</Link>
!
</p>
<p>
You can submit it on our{' '}
<Link href="/lunch-and-learn-idea">Lunch & Learns Idea Form</Link>.
</p>

<h3 className="mb-3">Explore Related Channels</h3>
<p>
If you have specific cultural or language content you'd like to share,
you may also be interested in checking out and posting in:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<code>#foreign-languages-and-culture</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>#food</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>#making-stuff</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>#entertainment</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>#i-love-animals</code>
</li>
</ul>

<hr />

<p>
You can reach out to the maintainers or monthly challenge facilitators
if you have any questions. Remember, we're always here to help. ❤️
</p>
</>
);
}
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export default function Challenge() {
return (
<>
<div className="alert alert-success">
This monthly challenge is complete. Congratulations! Please join us for
the <Link href="/monthlychallenges/dec-2025">next challenge</Link>!
</div>

<h1>
<small>Monthly Challenge for November 2025:</small> Creative Community
Challenge
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the month to learn more and give it a try.
</p>

<h2 className="mt-5 mb-4">Blogging Track: Continuing the November Tradition</h2>
<h2 className="mt-5 mb-4">
Blogging Track: Continuing the November Tradition
</h2>
<p>
For those who used to participate in our November Blogging Challenge, we're making sure that blogging remains a key component of this year's creative focus!
For those who used to participate in our November Blogging Challenge,
we're making sure that blogging remains a key component of this year's
creative focus!
</p>
<p>
You can choose to make blogging (either non-tech or tech-related) your primary creative activity this month. Whether you're writing a novel, starting a new blog, or just publishing a single post, we encourage you to use the resources and community support to achieve your writing goals. This specific track allows you to continue the tradition of prioritizing content creation during November as part of the broader Creative Community Challenge.
You can choose to make blogging (either non-tech or tech-related) your
primary creative activity this month. Whether you're writing a novel,
starting a new blog, or just publishing a single post, we encourage you
to use the resources and community support to achieve your writing
goals. This specific track allows you to continue the tradition of
prioritizing content creation during November as part of the broader
Creative Community Challenge.
</p>

<h2 className="mt-5 mb-4">How to Participate</h2>
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<code>#making-stuff</code> channel on Slack.
</li>
<li>
If you want to share your blog post, either non-tech or tech-related, drop it at <code>#content-creation</code> channel on Slack.
If you want to share your blog post, either non-tech or tech-related,
drop it at <code>#content-creation</code> channel on Slack.
</li>
<li>
Use the VC <code>#monthly-challenge</code> channel to post any
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on social media.
</li>
<li>
X posts, blog posts, and pictures are all welcome as long as they abide
by our{' '}
X posts, blog posts, and pictures are all welcome as long as they
abide by our{' '}
<a href="https://virtualcoffee.io/code-of-conduct/">
Code of Conduct
</a>
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<hr />

<p>
As always, you can reach out to the maintainers or monthly challenge
facilitators if you have any questions.
</p>
<p>
We also do weekly check ins in the <code>#monthly-challenge</code> channel on Slack to track your activities progress and to celebrate with you! 🩵
</p>
As always, you can reach out to the maintainers or monthly challenge
facilitators if you have any questions.
</p>
<p>
We also do weekly check ins in the <code>#monthly-challenge</code>{' '}
channel on Slack to track your activities progress and to celebrate with
you! 🩵
</p>
</>
);
}
30 changes: 29 additions & 1 deletion src/app/monthlychallenges/page.tsx
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},

{
current: true,
title: 'Creative Community Challenge',
subtitle: `Let's make some space for the other parts of ourselves.`,
description: (
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</>
),
},
{
current: true,
title: 'Share Your Tradition',
subtitle: `Let's celebrate the diverse cultures and traditions within our community.`,
description: (
<>
<p>
This challenge is all about connection, storytelling, and celebrating the customs that make <em>you, you</em>. Whether it's a winter holiday, a family birthday ritual, a favorite summer meal, or a silly household custom, we want to hear about it! Share photos, stories, recipes, or even host a Lunch & Learn about any tradition—big or small—that brings meaning or joy to your life. We spend so much time focused on work and code. Let's make space to learn about the personal histories and cultural experiences that enrich our community.
</p>
<p>
In this challenge, we encourage you to connect with one another by sharing the special ways you celebrate moments throughout the year.
</p>
{/* <p>
Learn more about this challenge in{' '}
<a href="">
this blog post
</a>
.
</p> */}
<p>
To view all of the details of this year&apos;s challenge,{' '}
<Link href="/monthlychallenges/dec-2025">
check out the December 2025 challenge page
</Link>
.
</p>
</>
),
},
];

const currentItem = challengeList.find((item) => item.current);
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