Foojay Podcast #27: Chicago JUG and KUG

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.

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Guests

Mary Grygleski

• https://foojay.social/@mgrygles
• https://twitter.com/mgrygles

John Burns

• https://bigshoulders.city/@wakingrufus
• https://twitter.com/wakingrufus

Podcast

Host: Frank Delporte

• https://foojay.social/@frankdelporte
• https://twitter.com/FrankDelporte

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