# Developer Retreats Keep Getting Better

DevFeed: [Developer Retreats Keep Getting Better](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/developer-retreats-keep-getting-better-32229.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://bruceeckel.com/2019/08/30/developer-retreats-keep-getting-better/>)

Author: Bruce Eckel

Published: 2019-08-30T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Bruce Eckel - Computing Thoughts](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bruce-eckel-computing-thoughts.md>)

Topics: [Python](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/python.md>), [Coroutines](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coroutines.md>), [Concurrency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/concurrency.md>), [Kotlin](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kotlin.md>), [Slack](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/slack.md>)

Tags: [concurrency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/concurrency.md>), [coroutines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coroutines.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [event](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/event.md>), [kotlin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kotlin.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [slack](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/slack.md>), [workshop](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workshop.md>)

## AI overview

The article reflects on a developer retreat organized around Luciano Ramalho's visit and describes how removing productivity pressures created a relaxed setting that still supported learning. It highlights conversations about Python coroutines, Kotlin research, concurrency, and informal communication through Slack.

## Source excerpt

The recent developer retreat took place August 20-26th. We arranged it because my friend Luciano Ramalho (Thoughtworker and author of the best-selling Fluent Python) was doing a multi-stop trip to the US (from his native Brazil) and had a gap in his schedule, so he wanted to come to Crested Butte and have a retreat. This seems to have become a pattern: someone I know would like to come here, and we end up organizing a retreat around their trip.