Go Community - GopherCon India

Talk about the current state of the Go Community, and what you can do to help us grow.

Transcript

1. Go Community
2. Go Community
3. My Journey • Started Denver Gophers December 2012 • Initial meetup - 12 people • Took over a year to break 20 people • GopherCon Kickoff Party - April 2014 • Beginning Go • Go Lunches • Started Go Meetup Chicago 2015
4. State of Community
5. source: meetup.com February 2015 Our Growth
6. Online Community •Go Nuts Mailing List •IRC Channel •Go+ Community •Go Forums •Twitter •Facebook •Linked In •Slack •Reddit •Personal Blogs •Videos
7. Slack gophersinvite.herokuapp.com gophers.slack.com
8. Go Forum forum.golangbridge.org
9. Online Communities Matter • Great Coverage • Good participation • Room to grow • Not the problem
10. Local Communities Many opportunities to grow! • User Groups (Meetups) • Conferences • Hackathons • Training
11. How can I help?
12. Organizations
13. GoBridge golangbridge.org • Enables minorities in tech • Volunteer based • Open source material • Learn or Teach • Targets underrepresented communities • Guidance for organizers
14. GoBridge - Allies golangbridge.org • I’m not a minority, can I help? • Organizer • Teacher • Teachers Assistant • Host • Sponsor
15. Coming soon… golangbridge.org • San Francisco - 2/27-2/28 • um, where are the rest? HELP US!
16. GoBridge • What do they need? • Hosts • Sponsors • Teachers • Teaching Assistants golangbridge.org
17. Women Who Go womenwhogo.org • Bangalore • México • London • Boston • Boulder • New York City • San Diego • San Francisco
18. womenwhogo.org Women Who Go • They need more help! • Hosts • Sponsors • Organizers
19. Local User Group • Join one • Start One
20. Starting a meetup • Create it • Post a new meeting • Without a date • Without a location • Without a host • Without a sponsor • Who will support you? • Your local community • Other meetup organizers • Online community • Me!
21. Helping Online • Ask Questions - Forums / Slack / etc. • Answer Questions • Blog - Medium • Screencast - YouTube
22. Dave Cheney Says… “please please please blog"
23. Supporters
24. GopherCon / Academy Brian Ketelsen Erik St. Martin
25. Women Who Go Sarah Adams
26. Go Bridge Carlisia Campos Bill Kennedy
27. Corporate Supporters
36. Centraal Minio Google Chain Sagan Systems CouldFlare Ardan Labs InfluxData Digital Ocean Google Cloud Arroyo Networks Iron.io Gopher Academy
37. Special Thanks!
38. What do we need?
40. Why are we doing this? We love Go? Job Security? Makes you look good? Adoption of Go at Work and in Education.
41. Get Involved
42. You want help? Ask me! I’ll Help You! @corylanou cory@lanou.com
43. Thank You! Questions?
44. Get Involved womenwhogo.org Sarah Adams sadams.codes@gmail.com golangbridge.org • Carlisia Campos • @carlisia • Bill Kennedy • @goinggodotnet Local Meetup • The Go Community • Organizers on meetup.com • Cory LaNou - @corylanou