[Chicago] [ANN] (rescheduled) January meeting this Wed

[Valentina Kibuyaga]

My experience was exceptionally AWESOME!  

Because of the ChiPy mentor/mentee program, I was invited to participate in the Microsoft Ventures accelerator and I have applied:  "Congratulations - your ImHealthy application to Microsoft Accelerator Seattle Class 2 is submitted‏"

@ Tanya, thanks for being accommodating and resilient.  As well, making this a fun, challenging and continuous learning experience.


@ ChiPY, thanks for this amazing program.  I will recommend ChiPy and clearly give credit to ChiPy as part of my success story.


Looking forward to Wednesday!



Valentina Kibuyaga




Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 07:28:22 -0600
From: tanya at tickel.net
To: chicago at python.org
Subject: Re: [Chicago] [ANN] (rescheduled) January meeting this Wed

Just wanted to pipe in 2cents:
I too had weird issues with timing and the Mom occasionally making me quite late to meetings, but Valentina (mentee) was very accommodating.
I had a great Mentor experience (and hope Valentina did too) and also think ChiPy is a super-welcoming place for people who have non standard lives: it's thanks to your encouragement, especially from other caregivers in the group, that I've felt able to attempt a freelancing career that works with this lifestyle.
@Randy -- Agree! Programming in general, plus Open Source, and Coursera, (and Udacity which works better for my attention span)  make realistic careers possible for some people who really had no options before...you're an inspiration for others who've got issues so don't you stop! You may want to check out exercism.io -- open source, collective mentorship system that was started for Ruby but now does about a dozen languages including Python -- it seems awesome!
@ T / Brian -- Maybe there can be a spot in the next Mentor questionnaire for people who  "have or can accommodate special needs"  so that people who think they can work things out might give it a shot.
Best,
Tanya
PS -- can't wait for Wednesday!

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