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Foojay Podcast #27: Chicago JUG and KUG

September 04, 2023
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Author(s)

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    Frank Delporte

    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 ... Learn more

  • Mary Grygleski

    Mary is a Java Champion, and an experienced, passionate Developer Advocate. She has serviced companies as an advocate, such as IBM and DataStax in topic areas that include, most recently, ... Learn more

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

Chicago Kotlin

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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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Author(s)

  • Avatar photo
    Frank Delporte

    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 ... Learn more

  • Mary Grygleski

    Mary is a Java Champion, and an experienced, passionate Developer Advocate. She has serviced companies as an advocate, such as IBM and DataStax in topic areas that include, most recently, ... Learn more

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