No I have no degree but am in school for CS. I had met the hiring manager a few times at the local Python meetup and given a couple of small talks on Python too

No I have no degree but am in school for CS. I had met the hiring manager a few times at the local Python meetup and given a couple of small talks on Python tools like Fabric. He gave me a shot via internship based on that and the relative strength of my github repo. That, and there's a serious shortage of programmers around here.