Salaam to all 👋!
Welcome to the September edition of the DD Newsletter - the place to go for your round-ups, updates, and everything in between. Here we'll round off what has been happening in our community and look ahead at our upcoming events and initiatives!
As usual, the newsletter is jam-packed with updates, lots of stuff to share, and a few cool things worth checking out. This edition includes information about upcoming events and campaigns, a Community spotlight, interesting reads, and our favourite meme of the month. You won't want to miss it.
Stay safe and in good health!
Continuum Spark Award Final20
We're super excited to announce that Deen Developers has made the Final20 for the GMW Continuum Spark award, but we need your help to make the next round!
The Continuum Spark Award are searching for social impact startups that propose innovative ideas that can make a positive impact towards the lives of Muslims and beyond. These ideas should bring people closer to Allah SWT and enlighten them through the values of Islam.
As a tech-for-good community that aims to solve real-world issues through tech and community, it’s great to see Deen Developers recognised as one of the 20 finalists alongside some impactful organisations.
If our vision resonates with you then vote for us by clicking on the link below and tapping the heart button ❤️ for Deen Developers 👇
Deen Developers events sell out quickly so make sure to follow us across all our social platforms to stay up to date with our latest events and activities
Additional Highlights
This past month we led a ChatGPT for Front End develoment session with the Battersea ICEC Youth Circle
Our new brand video 🎥
A few weeks ago we announced the redesign and relaunch of our main Deen Developers website. We created our new landing page with a cleaner, more modern design that helps to tell our story and brand identity as we’ve grown over the last few years.
The next step as part of this process is sharing our new brand video which captures everything that we’re about. Hear from our founders and community members to learn about:
👤 - who we are
📋 - what we do
🚀 - what drives us
Re-introducing Deen Developers: a tech-for-good community of founders, techies, and creatives who ship products that solve real-world problems 🌍
Check out the launch video above.
Community Spotlight
Co:Helm: The Co-Pilot for Health Care
Congratulations to Abdel, Zahid and the rest of the Co:Helm team for emerging from stealth having raised a $3.2mn seed led by Sequoia Capital and other investors including Andreesen Horowitz and Google DeepMind's founder Mustafa Suleyman.
The Co:Helm team is on a mission to address the $570bn of spending that is wasted in the US Healthcare system due to administrative inefficiencies by leveraging AI and automation to improve the patient and doctor experience.
With this funding round, the Co:Helm team are able to continue their mission to:
😄 - bring the joy back to healthcare
⚙️ - build AI Co:Pilots for nurses
🙌 - provide an ‘extra pair of hands' to clinicians
🫂 - hire great talent that’s going to help them along the way
To learn more check out the funding announcement from Sequoia.
Other Spotlights
Mohammad has built Scribble with AI to help users create social media creatives directly from prompts.
Ibraheem shared some stunning 3D product shots that he created in Blender.
The Community Spotlight section is an opportunity to share announcements, job openings, and anything else that’s worth highlighting.
Post on the #03_show-and-tell channel if you have something to share.
Slack's Digest
Interesting Articles Shared
Meme of the month
Actual conversation from Slack:
User 1: Yo can you TLDR the bun hype for me? yet to watch the fireship vid
User 2: Do the following:
run:
curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash
Enter a project of your choosing
rm -rf node_modules/
bun install
You have to see it to believe it
Have you got a funny meme? Post it on the #08_memes channel!