Foojay Podcast #27: Chicago JUG and KUG
- September 04, 2023
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Since December last year, the Foojay podcast virtually visited a Java User Group monthly.
This journey has already brought us to many places around the world.
And this time, we are in Chicago to learn from the Java and Kotlin user groups.
Guests
Mary Grygleski
John Burns
Podcast
Host: Frank Delporte
Links
Chicago JUG
- https://twitter.com/CJUG
- https://foojay.social/@ChicagoJUG
- https://www.youtube.com/@ChicagoJavaUsersGroup
- https://www.meetup.com/chicagojug
- https://discord.gg/U25g437
Chicago Kotlin
- https://twitter.com/ChicagoKotlin
- https://foojay.social/@ChicagoKUG
- https://www.meetup.com/chicago-kotlin/
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWCHNOYemampfWXMUdQ95Sw
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb1tSwQ0ReIFFJbVpbNGIvmELaucyBTaL
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Content
00:00 Intro and introduction of the guests
02:08 How Mary and John got into Java, Kotlin and user groups
06:55 History of the Chicago JUG
08:43 How Chicago switched from dotnet to Java in 2010’s
09:09 How Chicago JUG and KUG cooperate
13:04 Size of the communities
13:55 Impact of Covid and working-from-home
18:20 About streaming the event versus in-person
19:47 How to attract new visitors
23:00 Personal benefit of being part of a community
27:39 Speaking at conferences around the world
31:41 Most remarkable sessions
38:25 Outro
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Frank Delporte (@frankdelporte) is a Java Champion, Java Developer, Technical Writer at Azul, Blogger, Author of "Getting started with Java on Raspberry Pi", and Pi4J Contributor. Frank blogs about his experiments with Java, sometimes combined with electronic components, on the Raspberry Pi.
Mary is a Java Champion, and the AI Practice Lead at Callibrity, a consulting firm based in Ohio. She started as an engineer in Unix/C, then transitioned to Java around 2000 and has never looked back since then. After 20+ years of being a software engineer and technical architect, she discovered her true passion in developer and customer advocacy. Most recently she has serviced companies of various sizes such as IBM, US Cellular, Bank of America, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, in topic areas that included Java, GenAI, Streaming systems, Open source, Cloud and Distributed messaging systems. She is also a very active tech community leader outside of her day job. She is the President of the Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG), and the Chicago Chapter Co-Lead for AICamp.
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