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This Is Exactly What We Want

by | Fri 5 Mar 2010

A user called Eric left a [comment](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2010/03/04/ubuntu-opportunistic-developer-week-and-python-snippets-day/#comment-136320) on my [Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week and Python Snippets Day](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/2010/03/04/ubuntu-opportunistic-developer-week-and-python-snippets-day/) blog entry which I felt really needs highlighting:

> Thank you and the entire Canonical team for putting the Opportunistic Developer Week together!

> I’ve been stuck doing heavy, back end enterprise Java programming for the past few years. My interest in programming slowly fizzled out.

> On a whim, I decided to check out quickly, acire and the learning materials your team put together. PyGTK erased all the bad taste in my mouth from the Swing applications I’ve coded. 🙂 I haven’t had this much fun programming in a long time! Thanks so much!

This is exactly what I want us to do as community, to help unlock creativity in people’s minds and lower the barrier between idea and implementation. Thanks, Eric, you really put a smile on my face with that one.

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