Bruno Souza Live at JavaOne Las Vegas 2022
Jim Grisanzio with Bruno Souza
Duke’s Corner Podcast — October 26, 2022
Duke’s Corner Podcast with Bruno Souza about his Lifetime Achievement Award for 25 years of building the Java community in Brazil and around the world. The award was presented during the keynote at JavaOne Las Vegas 2022.
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Transcript
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Hey, it’s Jim.
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Welcome back to Duke’s Corner.
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And we were at Java 1 last week.
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Had a great time, great conference.
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This was in Las Vegas.
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And I was taking pictures, talking to developers, talking to friends.
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I also shot some podcasts as well.
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Shot some video, basically.
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I used the audio here, but we’ll put the video on Twitter.
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And this first one was with Bruno Souza.
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He got an award and he talks about that, basically a community development award.
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And he was awarded this in the opening keynote.
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So he stole the show.
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It was really great.
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And yeah, so first up is Bruno and there’ll be four or five more to come.
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Talk to you soon.
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Hey everybody,
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this is Jim Garzanzio from the Java Developer Relations team and we’re back in Java 1,
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right?
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And I got my friend Bruno Souzy here from Brazil and we’re in Las Vegas.
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Isn’t it awesome?
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Isn’t it awesome to be here?
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Java 1 is back, right?
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So I think, you know, seeing so many good people.
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Thanks a lot to be here, Jim.
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It’s so good to see you in person.
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We’ve been talking online for so long, right?
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So it’s so cool.
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Thanks.
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Thanks.
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Yeah, I’m finished with the Zoom calls, honestly.
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It’s great that we’re outside of the conference hall here,
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but we have to work fast because the sun is going to come over and bleach me out.
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So we had the keynote this morning, right?
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And you were given an award.
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You stole the show.
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So tell me about this award.
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So I’m just speechless, right?
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So, you know, it’s an award for, you know, lifetime achievements.
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So 25 years of community involvement.
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And I think this is,
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for me,
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it’s a great,
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great honor that the Oracle team and other people that they work with kind of chose
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me for that.
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It’s the very first award, right?
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So the first time that they give an award like this.
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And so I’m very, very honored.
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I think that,
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you know,
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25 years working with the community and working with people and helping people
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learn Java and help people become,
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and actually help people help other people,
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right?
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I think that’s the cool part.
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I don’t actually know, right?
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But I was very surprised.
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But thanks.
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Thanks for all you guys in the Oracle team.
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Thanks.
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Well, it’s interesting because I didn’t know.
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I’m on the job of developer relations.
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It was a closely held secret.
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I’m in the audience there.
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The keynote is wrapping up.
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I’m taking pictures.
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I’m actually relaxing and they tell us about that.
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And I said, oh, I got to run up and take some more pictures.
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Okay, so long time building community.
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Why?
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Why do you build community?
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Is just something in your heart?
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So,
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Jim,
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I do believe that when we help people to learn,
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to improve,
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they can go and they can form their own path.
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They can take their own lives in their hands and they go do things.
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And I think that there’s nothing better than that, right?
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Because technology is something that is just the basis for a lot of things.
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So if people are not able to do the things that they want,
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to do the things that they love,
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if people are not able to do that,
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then technology is for nothing,
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right?
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And so I think that building communities is a great way for us to really come
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together and we learn from each other.
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And so each one of us can do our part, right?
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Can go after our own interests, the things that we want to do.
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And then at the same time, we build things for others, right?
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So, but I don’t know, man.
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I think that’s, for me, I can tell you one thing, Jim.
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I’ve always been a very shy person, right?
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I have a difficulty.
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Yes, I know everyone thinks that, but I have difficulties.
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For example,
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if I’m on a,
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I don’t know,
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a bank or in a supermarket line,
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I have difficulty in talking to the person in front of me.
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I have to overcome my fears, right?
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But at the same time,
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people is at the center of technology.
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There’s no technology without people, right?
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And so when I learned that, it took me many years to learn that, that people are so important.
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So when I learned that,
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then I had to force myself to actually go meet people and go help people and be helping,
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right?
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Because that’s a cool thing.
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The more you help, the more help you get.
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And I think the community bug kind of bit me
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You know, when we started, we started helping others and then this whole thing blew up.
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And so,
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you know,
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so Java,
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the Brazilian Java Society is such an important part of that because a lot of
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people came together to make that a reality.
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So, you know,
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I’m really looking forward to going to Brazil sometime.
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I’ve never been there.
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I know you’ve done such a great job.
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And you were recognized here.
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And actually, just for everybody out there, when Bruno was announced, it was a standing ovation.
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So, you know, it’s a reciprocal relationship.
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It just is really great.
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So we’re out here.
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We’re in Las Vegas.
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It’s the first day of the conference, the first keynote.
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Now we’re going to go for the second half of the day.
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There will be a technical keynote tomorrow.
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And then on…
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I guess Thursday there’s a community keynote.
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So there’s three days of keynotes here.
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So what’s going on in Brazil?
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When can I come down there and do some stuff?
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Well, there’s a lot of things going on.
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Actually, we went back to doing in-person events since last November.
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So we’ve been doing lots of events.
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We’re doing the developers conference and campus party.
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So there’s lots of opportunities for you to come down.
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So anytime you want, we can figure it out.
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And one interesting thing is that the Brazilian community is very welcoming.
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So if you decide to just come there, we’re going to work things out together to make it happen, right?
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So I got to check with Chad and Char, and I’ll be there as soon as I can.
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Congratulations on your award.
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It’s great.
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I’m really proud of you and jealous as well.
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Thank you so much, man.
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i’m still i still don’t i’m still trying to process this whole thing uh so i really
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would like to thank all the oracle team but not but also all the java champions and
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all the java’s group leaders uh because that has been you know i could never have
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done anything if it was not this huge community so java is such a nice you know if
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you’re watching this
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and you’re not part of a user group,
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or you’re not involved in a community,
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get involved in,
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man,
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because really,
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the community has been an amazing piece of my career,
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and I think that everyone that participates in the community,
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everyone that really comes in and comes to help other people,
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you really grow a lot,
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right?
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You learn more,
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you help other people by helping other people,
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they help you more,
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so it’s such a win-win situation that I think that absolutely everyone should get involved.
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And not only that,
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Jim,
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one thing that always strikes me is that community participation is so good for our careers.
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And it gives so much things for us.
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And there’s so little people doing it, right?
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And so you, man, you can be here with us.
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You can get involved,
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you can join,
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be an open source developer or participate in job as a group or any kind of community.
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Can I tell a quick story?
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Sure.
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So I was in Houston for the Houston Java Group five months ago, right?
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When I came to DevNexus here to the US, I went there to Houston, gave a talk there.
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And so at my talk, there was a guy, he asked a question, you know, oh, I really want to give back, right?
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So can I participate in community?
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Why should I participate in community?
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And so we had a discussion about that,
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and I told him how important it was,
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how good it was going to be for his career.
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And so then I came back to Houston last week, right?
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And so when I was there,
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I got a phone call from him,
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and he said,
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Bruno,
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I want you to come to my community now.
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So I went and visited his community, and so he launched it, hey!
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Woo!
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So after we talked five months ago, he launched his own community.
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It’s not Java related, it’s a community about side projects, right?
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So he launched his own community, right?
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And so five months later, he had a bunch of people
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exchanging information, exchanging ideas, talking about projects.
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And so that’s something that you can do, right?
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You can build a community inside your company.
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You can build a community inside your city.
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And that makes all the difference, right?
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So, you know, this is awesome, Jim.
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Excellent.
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Well, it’s good advice.
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And again, congratulations.
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And we will see you.
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back in here.
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We’ve got to go inside now.
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It’s beautiful out here,
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but everyone’s inside,
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so we’ve got to go to the sessions,
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and I’ve got to go to the booth.
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Thank you, and we’ll see you guys later.
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Thanks a lot, Oracle.
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Thanks, everyone, for watching.
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You should come to Java 1.
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Bye-bye.