Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing?

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I'm in the Bay Area and I did actually go to a Django meetup yesterday in
SF where there were talks revolving around large-scale Django applications.
It was very informative. :)


On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com>wrote:

> Check meetup.com. I live in nyc where there are django, python groups.
> Maybe where you live too
> On Apr 8, 2014 12:45 PM, "Steven D'Aprano" <
> steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 01:38:42 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> >>> -People are super patient and helpful and they answer all your
>> >>> questions and go beyond the call of duty to help you.
>> >>
>> >> A utopia very few will ever find.
>> >
>> > In corporate, yes, it's rare. But it's a lot less rare in open source
>> > projects. I could go into my theories as to why, but it'd make for a
>> > long post.
>>
>> http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/java-shop-politics/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-09 01:38 +1000
  Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-04-08 16:44 +0000
    Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2014-04-08 13:16 -0400
    Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-09 03:18 +1000
      Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? pecore@pascolo.net - 2014-04-08 19:45 +0200
        Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-09 03:58 +1000
    Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? James Brewer <james@brwr.org> - 2014-04-08 12:45 -0700
    Re: [OFF-TOPIC] How do I find a mentor when no one I work with knows what they are doing? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-04-09 00:29 -0400

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