On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves<law...@au-kbc.org> wrote: > On Friday 12 June 2009 14:30:57 Srijayanth Sridhar wrote: >> What are your experiences as a person from a "small town"? My question is >> more directed towards your 'programming culture' now vis-a-vis to your >> programming culture from your small town? > > I am both 'from' and mostly 'in' a small town. My experience is that one has > to be totally self reliant and solely dependent on the internet. For example, > I started programming python circa 2002, but the first time I met and > discussed > with a real live python developer was in late 2006. I _did_ see Pradeep G and > swaroop in a conference in 2004, but was too scared to talk to them ;-) Till > date I have _never_ asked anyone F2F about any problem in programming - there > is no one available. The same goes for sysadmin and practically every other > computer related task. Strangely enough, the same goes for golfers in small > towns - I have yet to get even a tip from a coach. That is also why I prefer > to recruit from small towns and non-elite colleges. The people are more self- > reliant and not so cynical.
Kenneth, I remember that LB 2004 moment. You were sitting in the first row and me & Swaroop were sitting right behind you and gabbing away about some python stuff. You turned and started talking to us (something about plone /zope, I think). The "scared" feeling was mutual :D About asking people F2F about programming/linux, my own first experience bears repeating. This happened during the very first Bangalore-IT.com which had the Linux pavilion (1997/98?). I I had recently discovered linux and having a hard time getting SiS graphics card working on my PC. So, during one of the conf. days I boldly walked (after talking myself into it for couple of minutes) to this well known Linux person and asked him "how do I get this SiS card working?". What my "scared-but-practicing-to-be-bold" self failed to notice is that he was talking to some one else already. He laughed and said, "you should stop using that card then". Yeah, very "cold-water-in-the-face" moment there. I have survived. +PG _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
