The Best Feature of Go [Gophercon BR 2018]

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The Best Feature of Go Daniela Petruzalek Senior Consultant @ ThoughtWorks Google Developer Expert [email protected] September 29th, 2018

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Go Has Some Really Nice Features • Channels • Goroutines • Interfaces • Tests • Reflection • … • Community (!?)

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Go: Building On the Shoulders of Giants (...) C++ Ruby C# Java C Shell Perl Python PHP Pascal JS Oberon Pascal Modula Steve Francia’s Talk @ Curry On: https://goo.gl/iK2G8b

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People > Technology

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"None of what we do in terms of writing software, open source software, would be possible without community. (...) Without the community the technical work cannot exist." Naomi Ceder, chair of the PSF board of directors, EuroPython 2016

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What do you expect from a senior engineer?

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"I came for the language, but I stayed for the community." Brett Cannon, Python Core Dev, PyCon US 2014

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"I came for the community, and I’m staying for the community. (But the language is really cool!)" Daniela Petruzalek, Gopher @ Gophercon UK 2018 :)

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- Software Engineer (C++) - Oracle DBA - Sales Consultant (Database) - Software Engineer (Big Data) Before Go...

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My First Community Talk - Rails Girls Pelotas (Feb 2017) - http://railsgirls.com

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My Personal Mission - Become the reference that I didn't have when I was younger - Help making the IT industry a more humane environment

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My History with Go - The birth of Women Who Go Porto Alegre

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Women Who Go Scholarship

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What can I do to give back to this community?

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Types of Contributions • Open Source • Organizing Events • Public Speaking • Writing Articles • Mentoring / Teaching • User Experience / Reporting • ...

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Disclaimer Don’t try doing everything on this list, at least not at the same time.

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Open Source

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Personal Projects https://github.com/danicat/spinarago

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My First Contribution to Go

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My Newest Contribution!

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Organizing the Gophercon Talks Repository

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The Feedback

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Improving golang-samples

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About Fixing Examples...

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Improving the ‘gota’ Package

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Contributing With Code... 1. It’s not limited to the experts 2. Find your comfort zone 3. Try to improve a package you like 4. No ideas? Start with https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go

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Organizing Events

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Women Who Go Porto Alegre https://github.com/wwg-poa/pacgo

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Gophercon BR 2017 Diversity Scholarship - First year: - 7 women among 180 attendees (~4%) - Last year (2nd edition): - 19 women among 229 attendees (~8%) - 5 scholarship recipients

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About organizing - You don’t need to know Go to organize a meetup - Main challenges: finding sponsors, venues and speakers - Good way to improve social skills - You can organize other things besides meetups - You may collaborate with already existing events - You can (should) start small - It can be very time consuming

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Public Speaking

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Motivation - Useful tool for learning new things - Great opportunity for meeting new people and places - There is a high demand for new speakers!

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About Public Speaking... - Start small to build confidence - Article: How to become a successful technical speaker - Nice balance in time to prepare x impact - It’s often useful to give your personal perspective about something - Keeping track of the talks: - https://github.com/danicat/public-speaking

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Writing Articles

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Writing about your experiences https://goo.gl/smN9qn

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About writing articles - Articles (or videos) can scale better than talks - Talk transcriptions may be useful topics as well - Keep it short for higher impact (under 10 min, ideal 6-8 min) - Write about stuff that you are trying to understand

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Mentoring / Teaching

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About Mentoring - 1:1 approach - Not very scalable, but huge impact - Doesn’t need to be done in person - Twitter - Whatsapp

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Ready 2 Go Beginner’s Workshop - Gophercon BR 2017 - In partnership with Ellen Korbes (@ellenkorbes) - Later turned it into a talk

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Wrapping it Up

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Life After Go... - Google Developer Expert (GDE) - Google Launchpad Mentor - Lead organizer at GDG POA, WWG POA and WTM POA - Member of Gophercon Brazil Board of Advisors - Head of New Chapters at Women Who Go - Writer at Hackernoon - Speaker at several conferences and meetups

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The Result...

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Lessons Learned - You don’t need to accept every offer - Keep the focus on your personal mission - Choose the things that you are more comfortable with - There are infinite ways to contribute to the community

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[email protected] https://linkedin.com/in/petruzalek https://twitter.com/danicat83 Questions?

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