JUG World Tour: Brazil SouJava JUG and How to Grow your Developer Career (#21)

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, it’s recognized as the world’s largest Java User Group with 40,000 members! There’s a lot we can learn from the people who achieved this.GuestsOtavio Santanahttps://twitter.com/otaviojavahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/otaviojava/https://www.youtube.com/@otaviojavaMaximillian Arruda https://twitter.com/maxdearrudahttps://mastodon.social/@maxdearrudahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/maxarruda/https://linktr.ee/maxdearrudaBruno Souzahttps://twitter.com/brjavamanhttps://code4.life/Free book: http://jav.mn/bestyearPodcast hostFrank Delporte @[email protected]://twitter.com/FrankDelporteLinkshttp://soujava.org.br/https://www.meetup.com/SouJava/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SouJavaContent00’00 Intro00’26 Introduction of the guests02’39 History of Java and SouJava08’03 About working on open source projects and the relationship with JUGs12’55 How Max became part of the JUG organizers and how to incrementally improve your skills23’38 Impact of Covid and the advantage of in-person meetings28’20 The best ways to grow as a developer, the spiral of growth51’29 Trying to get back to the “new normal” with the JUGs01h01’12 Conclusions