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Pycon Notes: Building Open Source Communities in Rio de Janeiro
by john on Feb.20, 2010, under Python
Henrique Bastos – @henriquebastos
Small Acts are only the essential things.
Python 2008 was hosted in Rio. They had 400 people over 3 days. Henrique sent out an email asking for more information. The python population in Brazil is young, majority under 30, tend to be students, use it for web development (mostly Django) and consider Python essential to the work they do.
http://pythoncampus.org/ does tutorials and talks on university campuses in Brazil. Did 4 sessions last year. Will do one a month this year.
Rio Pythonistas run dojos weekly. Team coding in front of an audience with a projector showing their work.
Horaextra (Overtime) is a weekly social hour for technology enthusiasts.
Python enthusiasts attend conferences for other languages to meet other developers and build community.
They gave a Python t-shirt to President Lula, video of this became a hit at conferences and on YouTube.
SmallActsManifesto.org lists the principles used to build the community in Brazil.
