The community of gophers (Go Time #329)

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On this episode, Angelica is joined by Go community leaders from around the world: meetup organizers from Guadalajara, St. Louis, New York & Go Bridge Atlanta. Together, they explore the ins & outs of organizing meetups, the benefits of attending, the Go Developer Network (GDN) & the current state of the Go Meetup community.

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Featuring:

• Wilken Rivera – Website
• Matthew Sanabria – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jennifer Johnson – LinkedIn
• Paul Balogh – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Hannah W –
• Guillermo Galván –
• Angelica Hill – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Go Developers
• Platform Engineering New York
• NJ Code & Coffee
• GoBridge Atlanta
• Golang Guadalajara
• GoBridge
• StLGo
• MO Reliability
• CNCF Saint Louis

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Chapters

1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Coder.com (00:00:46)

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3. Introducing the guests (00:04:24)

4. What makes Go special (00:11:39)

5. Meetups (00:14:45)

6. Ease of planning (00:17:53)

7. Why go to meetups? (00:23:15)

8. Food works (00:36:09)

9. GDN (00:43:01)

10. Advice (00:50:05)

11. Unpopular Opinions! (01:01:38)

12. Hannah's unpop (01:02:02)

13. Jennifer's unpop (01:03:04)

14. Matthew's unpop (01:05:08)

15. Paul's unpop (01:06:34)

16. Outro (01:07:58)