Foojay Podcast #21: Brazil SouJava JUG and How to Grow your Developer Career

Once a month, the Foojay Podcast virtually visits a JUG to talk with the people behind it.

SouJava, the Brazil JUG, was founded in 1999, and according to Wikipedia, is recognized as the world’s largest Java User Group with 40,000 members.

There’s a lot we can learn from the people who have achieved this!

Guests

Otavio Santana

https://twitter.com/otaviojava

https://www.linkedin.com/in/otaviojava/

https://www.youtube.com/@otaviojava

Maximillian Arruda 

https://twitter.com/maxdearruda

https://mastodon.social/@maxdearruda

https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxarruda/

https://linktr.ee/maxdearruda

Bruno Souza

https://twitter.com/brjavaman

https://code4.life/

Free book: http://jav.mn/bestyear

Podcast host

Frank Delporte

@frankdelporte@foojay.social

https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte

Links

http://soujava.org.br/

https://www.meetup.com/SouJava/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SouJava

Content

00’00 Intro

00’26 Introduction of the guests

02’39 History of Java and SouJava

08’03 About working on open source projects and the relationship with JUGs

12’55 How Max became part of the JUG organizers and how to incrementally improve your skills

23’38 Impact of Covid and the advantage of in-person meetings

28’20 The best ways to grow as a developer, the spiral of growth

51’29 Trying to get back to the “new normal” with the JUGs

01h01’12 Conclusions

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