On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:

> imagine it must be pretty lonely being the only geek with deep Python
> knowledge and interest in Minsk.

I don't want to distract from your point, but I'm not sure the
underlying assumption is warranted here. I happen to have met a few
pretty good Python programmers from the Baltic states, one of whom
told me about user groups he went to.