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Don't miss the largest Go community gathering in the world! Exceptional workshops, talks and tutorials, hours of networking, and a sunny destination with more than 1,500 of your gopher friends awaits! Get your ticket before prices increase on June 24th!

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We bet you're excited to see the Gophercon 2018 videos... #golang #gopherconorbust

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2 years

You may have noticed that the team at Gopher Academy has been unusually quiet lately. We have an important conference announcement to share.

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7 years

Thank you to everyone who purchased extra swag to support next year's diversity fund! In total we raised $12,300! #gophercon

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4 years

It's official Gophers! Mark your calendars for some social "undistancing" December 6th - 8th in sunny San Diego, California! ☀️GC21 will be in-person with a live streaming option for those who cannot attend. Interested in speaking? The CFP will open Monday, April 5th. #golang

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First 7 GopherCon 2016 videos have been released. The rest are coming soon. #golang

GopherCon 2016

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6 years

Attention Gophers! If any of you are staying at a #gophercon hotel, be sure they are giving you our gopher key cards! We've been checking in with the hotels, but we want to make sure they are following through! #gopherconorbust #golang

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4 years

#GopherCon is now #GoVirGon ! Join us virtually in November for a week of online programming, networking and engagement! Stay tuned for more details to come...

GopherCon 2020 Online

#GopherCon is now #GoVirCon! With increasing cases of coronavirus in the US, travel bans and restrictions holding strong likely through the end of the year, and Gopher Academy’s increasing concern...

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We have a lot of interest in more information about the post-conference videos of the talks. We will publish all talks, including lightning talks to our YouTube channel, , within a month of the last day of #gophercon .

Gopher Academy

Gopher Academy is the creative force behind GopherCon, a conference celebrating all things Go! Since its debute in 2014, GopherCon has developed some of the very best programming in the Go community....

GopherCon 2016 - Lightning Talks

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7 years

Touching down in Denver in 30 days. The swag game at GopherCon is strong!

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7 years

Our CFP is now open. Share and encourage your friends to submit. #golang #gopherconorbust

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1 year

✨Our community lost some of its sparkle last week with the passing of @carolynvs . Carolyn was a big part of bringing #GopherCon to life each year, and dedicated to elevating new & diverse community members. She also loved a good emoji and fur babies. We will miss her kind soul.

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4 years

To celebrate #golang 's 11th birthday next week, the Go Team is doing the gift giving by donating passes to #GoVirCon for Gophers in need. If you want to attend please send us an email at info @gopheracademy .com! 💙 #GopherLove

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8 years

All remaining GopherCon talks and Lightning Talks are live!

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4 years

The long anticipated announcement is here... #GoVirCon presentations, Go Time podcasts, Lightning Talks and the "Ask Me Anything" session with the Go Team are now live on Gopher Academy's YouTube channel. Happy holidays Gophers!

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7 years

Gophercon 2018 tickets go on sale in just over 4 hours. Anybody as excited as we are? #golang #gopherconorbust

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8 months

🎉Go 1.22, where 'for' loops no longer point in one direction, but embark on a new 'range' of possibilities, has landed! From language changes and improved performance to standard library additions, it’s time to level up your code game! 💻 Release notes:

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2 years

We weren’t quite at the attendance level we were hoping for and had to resort to cloning…

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8 years

We’ve dropped 5 more videos from GopherCon 2016 on our YouTube channel: #golang #gophercon

GopherCon 2016

Why Go was the right choice for CockroachDB

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10 years

All talks are available online now! http://t.co/P4fdDDHoAN #gophercon

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1 year

Did you know that @CockroachDB was written in Go? To see why Go was the "write stuff" for their distributed database, check out their blog ⤵️ #Golang #GophersUnite

The first question many developers ask us is what our experience has been writing a distributed database in Go, a garbage-collected language.

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7 years

We know how much you love our custom keycards, here is a peek at the 2017 keycard. Amazing artwork by @ErickZelaya #golang #gophercon

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@GopherCon

2 years

It's #GopherCon week!! 🎉🎉🎉 Our gopher on the scene was starting to wonder where all his friends have "bean" for the past few years, but we assured him you'll be here soooooonnnnnn!! Safe travels Gophers! #GopherConOrBust #GophersUnite #golang

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8 years

Don't miss @kelseyhightower teach us how to build apps that DEPLOY THEMSELVES. #golang #gophercon

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5 years

Gophercon 2020 News: June conference dates will be rescheduled. More info: #golang

GopherCon 2020 Update

It’s been a few weeks since our first release about GopherCon and COVID-19, so we wanted to share an update. You all are the backbone of this conference and so important to us!

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3 years

Calling all Gophers with a brilliant idea to share... the CFP for #GopherCon is open! Never been on stage before? Even better! We love to feature fresh, new ideas. GC22 will be an in-person, vaccinated event in September. Website and tickets coming soon!

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2 years

We've been quite busy behind the scenes. Rooming, programming, and workshops are all coming together! More to come in early July. In the meantime, check out this amazing artwork by @ashleymcnamara and @ErickZelaya ! See if you can find some hidden gems. #golang

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6 years

#gophercon attendees! Get excited for an amazing welcome party tonight at Sculpture Park located at the Denver Performing Arts Complex! Food trucks, lawn games, and the GopherCon band awaits! Bring your badge and look for staff holding signs to direct you! 7p - 11p #golang

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5 years

We hate to show off, but did you see this year's program? #golang

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6 years

Check out our cool hoodie design to raise money for the @GopherCon diversity fund. Shout out to @ashleymcnamara and @ErickZelaya for their incredible design work! We have a limited quantity, so grab one before they are gone! #golang #gopherconorbust

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4 years

It's been a long 6 weeks since we sadly announced the postponement of #gophercon , but we are happy to finally report the new dates have been set! The hotel page will take a couple weeks, but the website is updated otherwise. Please direct any questions to info @gopheracademy .com

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2 years

Special props to our "front row fan club"! #GopherCon has the most supportive attendees! #GophersUnite #golang

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2 years

We are deeply saddened by the Supreme Court's decision to strip women of their federal protection to make personal health choices. We stand side-by-side with all women in tech, and will continue to choose and gather in states that support the rights of all our community members.

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Who's excited for the first official day of #gophercon tomorrow? Let's meet another awesome speaker! @NataliePis is a certified sailor, working to become a skipper, an enthusiastic stone collector and could teach you a few things about fencing! #golang

GopherCon 2024

Come and celebrate the 10th anniversary of GopherCon with us in Chicago! With exceptional pre-conference workshops taught by a few of the smartest people we know, some of the very best programming...

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Don't forget we are live streaming Monday and Tuesday. sponsored by Backtrace.io

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We’d like to say a huge thank you to all of our amazing speakers at #GopherCon ! Your engaging and insightful talks have truly fueled the Gopher community. We appreciate your expertise and inspiration! 💡 #GophersUnite

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4 years

#GoVirCon tickets are now available at ! We can't think of a better way to start the weekend! #golang #ThirdTimesTheCharm

Rumor has it that all the cool Gophers will be in Chicago July 7th - 10th to celebrate the 10th anniversary of GopherCon! See you there?

Fixing For Loops in Go 1.22 - The Go Programming Language

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2 years

#golang is being used at @LiaAerospace to solve the problems in the aerospace industry like orbital trajectory optimization using unsupervised machine learning and industrial control/automation for rocket engine testing. Join @whittileaks & learn more! 👉

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Go 1.21 includes a preview of a change to for loop scoping that the Go team plans to ship in Go 1.22, removing one of the most common Go mistakes. Check it out here: #Golang

Go 1.21 shipped a preview of a change in Go 1.22 to make for loops less error-prone.

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With increasing concerns about COVID-19 we’ve had some questions regarding potential impact on @GopherCon . We’ve published our response here: … TLDR: GopherCon 2020 is still scheduled to take place in late June. #gophercon

GopherCon 2020 COVID-19 Response

Many in the community are facing concerns about COVID-19, the disease caused by the newly discovered coronavirus [1]. We at Gopher Academy are following the status of COVID-19 carefully in preparat...

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Let's all take a moment to give some love to our awesome #GoVirCon captioner, @smiley845 ! She's been with us for 4 years now and she's captioning a continuous 8+ hr feed LIVE for 3 days, starting today, and only taking 60-second bio breaks.😆 Talk about a pro!! 💙

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The @MarriottMarina loved the gophers so much they gopherized themselves! Speaking of the Marriott, if you realize you've lost something, we turned in any remaining items we received to the front desk.

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3 years

If you missed the action at #GopherCon this year or you just want to revisit some of the content, the talks are now live on Gopher Academy's YouTube page! Lighting Talks and pre-conference workshops will be coming soon as well.

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Hooray!! 🎉The schedule for #GopherCon 's talks and workshops is officially complete and live on . Check it out and join the largest Gopher gathering of the year in San Diego this September! #RoadtoGopherCon #Golang

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GopherCon is partnering with the Marriott to “Make a Green Choice”. Guest rooms will be serviced on the 4th day of stay, though trash will be removed throughout. In return, the hotel will plant a tree through the Arbor Day Foundation. #gopherconorbust

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Our next fantastic speaker, Russ Cox, speaking about The Future of Go! #gophercon

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3 years

Attention Gophers! The Call for Proposals is now open! As a reminder, when choosing the final speaker line-up, preference will be given to those who have not previously spoken. All topics centered around Go are welcome! #golang

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Interested in attending GopherCon 2018 but need help making it happen? Let us help! Apply here for one of our diversity scholarships: #golang

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We believe everyone deserves a chance to be a part of the #GopherCon magic!🪄 If you're passionate about Go and would like to join us in July, but don't have the financial means to do so, consider our scholarship program. ⏰The submission deadline is Monday, February 5th, at

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Who remembers the excitement of the CoreOs bus rolling up to #GopherCon that first year? Since then, we've journeyed through a decade of epic adventures, forged unbreakable bonds, and shared endless #golang wisdom! Gophers, what are YOUR favorite conference memories? Share the

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Here we are again Gophers. We were really looking forward to seeing some of you in San Diego this December, unfortunately the virus had different plans. GoVirCon 2.0 is back and will be better than ever! Check out our blog and website for more details.

GoVirCon is back

With cases of COVID-19 continuing to rise throughout the US due to the Delta variant, we at Gopher Academy have made the bittersweet decision to bring GoVirCon back.

Repeatable and Isolated Development Environments for Go

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Check out the highlight video and speaker interviews @changelog shot for 2015! Who's excited for 2016? #golang

Films Gophercon 2015

News and podcasts for developers

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While everyone is eating lunch, don't forget to check out our diversity fund booths! 100% of the proceeds go to helping get gophers from around the world to #gophercon and thanks to your help last year we were able to get over 40 gophers here this year!

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Apply for the 2019 Gophercon Diversity Scholarship here: #golang #gophercon #gopherconorbust

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4 years

It may be @golang 's birthday, but you know who else's birthday it is? This guy right here... @justenwalker ! Join us for his talk "Safety Not Guaranteed - Using unsafe to syscall Windows APIs without CGO" at #GoVirCon tomorrow. And don't forget to wish him a happy bday in Discord!

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7 years

Go Advent Day 7 ; Repeatable and Isolated Development Environments for Go By @bketelsen #golang #advent

One of the common criticisms of the GOPATH is that it is hard to create isolated development environments without resorting to hacks, bash scripts, multiple GOPATH settings, or other trickery.

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While Kris left us all doing what she loved the most, it doesn't make the loss of her spirit on the planet any less profound. She was brilliant, funny, and lived life unapologetically. Our community is better because of you. Go climb that endless peak Nova.🏔️💙

Joe Beda

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Last Wednesday evening Kris Nova had a climbing accident and died. All of us that loved her are heart broken and stunned. She was an amazing person that lived out loud and built connection and community wherever she went. She will be horribly missed.

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Who's the best community ever?! You are! You have doubled our attendance in just two weeks and exceeded our overall showing of 1,400 at GVC20! Due to the incredible generosity of our sponsors, this year's ticket is free, so join us.

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3 years

We're coming out of our program planning gopher hole for a special announcement... Early Gopher tickets go on sale Thursday, July 1st at 12p ET for #gophercon ! This ticket type is limited, so set your alarm to visit .

Rumor has it that all the cool Gophers will be in Chicago July 7th - 10th to celebrate the 10th anniversary of GopherCon! See you there?

GitHub - mongodb/mongo-go-driver: The Official Golang driver for MongoDB

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Thank you for making this year’s #GopherCon unforgettable!🎊 What an incredible 10 years it has been, Gophers. YOU are the heart of this community. ❤️ Thank you to the attendees, speakers, workshop instructors, sponsors, and everyone who made this year’s event spectacular. This

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Meet the @MongoDB team at #gophercon ! Stop by the booth and say hi, grab some swag and learn more about the MongoDB Go Driver:

The Official Golang driver for MongoDB. Contribute to mongodb/mongo-go-driver development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Hard at work on challenges! #ctf #security #fallout #gophercon23 #golang

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Thanks to Ian Lance Taylor for his talk on Generics in Go! #gophercon

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We have a handful of Early Gopher tickets for #GopherCon . This offer expires in 10 days on July 31st, so get 'em while they're hot! #golang

Rumor has it that all the cool Gophers will be in Chicago July 7th - 10th to celebrate the 10th anniversary of GopherCon! See you there?

GopherCon 2022: Donia Chaiehloudj - TinyGo: Getting the Upper Hen

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#TinyGo has become a community favorite for Gophers like @doniacld , building personal projects. Join her for a demo of how she monitors the temperature and humidity of her henhouse to ensure her feathered friends stay safe and healthy using #golang .

TinyGo is a Go compiler for small places such as microcontroller or web. Join Donia for a demo and see live henhouse temperature and humidity data displayed ...

Go Programming Language | Google Cloud

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Join us in the TinyGo Backstage in Shedd B @Marquis_Chicago and join your fellow Gophers in preparing for the Return of the TinyGo Hardware Hack Session! #GophersUnite #golang

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A message from our Diamond Sponsor: We at @googlecloud are so excited to sponsor #Gophercon this year! Check out for more on @golang ❤️GCP - See you in #SanDiego #Golang #GopherFriends

Learn about Google Cloud products and tools that support Go programmers developing Go applications.

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4 years

We're excited to announce @GopherCon 's annual Pre-Conference Meetup tradition continues on October 28th! Learn how your fellow Gophers coped with the pandemic, paid it forward by teaching others, and listen to their journeys to #GoVirCon . Signup at #golang

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2 years

Someone plan a parade Gophers... the talks for #GopherCon are officially live!! Workshops are on the way next, but in the meantime, check out our speakers and their talks at . The line-up is fire! 🔥 #golang

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2 years

Registration for #GopherCon is open. We've waited three years to see your smiling faces, so stop by between 3p - 7p today for your name badge, conference program and stickers, of course! #GophersUnite #golang

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6 years

We're excited to announce that we are accepting Diversity Fund Scholarship applications, now through Friday, March 1st. Though we are looking for diversity in both areas of gender and race, we absolutely consider need as well, so apply!

Rumor has it that all the cool Gophers will be in Chicago July 7th - 10th to celebrate the 10th anniversary of GopherCon! See you there?

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🤔 Gophers, we want to hear from you! Let us know in the comments. 💡 #golang

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8 years

Live streaming of @GopherCon begins at 8:50 MDT today. Catch the action on

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6 years

Only 8 days until #gophercon ! Time to get to know another awesome speaker! A huge soccer fan, you may find @derivativeburke walking to his closest pub to watch because he doesn't own a car. Incredibly versed in Go and environmentally conscious! #golang

GopherCon 2024

Come and celebrate the 10th anniversary of GopherCon with us in Chicago! With exceptional pre-conference workshops taught by a few of the smartest people we know, some of the very best programming...

PaperCall.io - GopherCon 2019 Lightning Talks

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Created by @Cosmos co-founder @JaeKwon , @_Gnoland is the first smart contract platform to use Gnolang (Gno), an interpreted and deterministic version of #golang . lowers the barrier to entry to web3, making it easy for web developers to make the switch.

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4 years

Many of you have been anticipating the launch of #gophercon ticket sales and the CFP. But due to current events in the United States, we've chosen to leave room for more important conversations.

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6 years

Wait, what?!? Only 7 days left to submit your talks for #gophercon ! Get on it Gophers!

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10 years

Many talks already up on Github, some with code samples too Star this!

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5 years

Another huge thanks to Elena Morozova, @lelenanam , for her wonderful talk, How Uber "Go"es!

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1 year

We’re excited for Buf to bring their Gopher once again to #GopherCon ! #GophersUnite #Golang

Buf

@bufbuild

2 years

Buf is bringing a friend to @GopherCon ! Come by our booth to take a photo with this seven foot tall bundle of joy. #golang #GophersUnite

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6 days to go Gophers! In the wise words of Morpheus... get 'er done! #Golang

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5 years

Thanks to Yusuke Miyake for speaking to us on the Optimization for Number of goroutines Using Feedback Control! The #gophercon tutorial sessions are killin' it!

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5 years

Just when you started having #gophercon withdrawals... we officially have a Flickr account! So far we've added albums for 2019 and 2018. We will continue to add past ones, so be sure to check back. And before someone asks... vids are in the works!

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3 years

Congratulations to our co-founder @bketelsen on his newest release! 💙

Brian Ketelsen

@bketelsen

3 years

And they said not to release on Friday … Meet Liam Walker, born 5/14

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Don't forget to submit for Lightning Talks at #gophercon before March 31st! Whether it’s a personal project or an abbreviated version of a conference talk submission, the Lightning Talks are a great opportunity to get the word out in seven minutes or less!

The GopherCon Lightning Talks will take place on Community Day, Saturday, July 27, 2019. These 5 - 7 minute talks offer everyone a chance to take the stage at the conference, but with a little less...

www.papercall.io

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4 years

Happy birthday Go from #GoVirCon !

Go

@golang

4 years

🎉 Happy Birthday, Go! 🎂 🥳 Today we celebrate 11 years of Go. Thanks to all who have helped us get this far. We hope you are all staying safe and wish you all the best! — #golang

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Looks like Mat Ryer, @matryer survived Ron's targeting drone! He's giving us his talk, How I Write HTTP Web Services After Eight Years #gophercon

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1 year

🚨Free Conference Pass Alert! 🚨 If you're in need of a conference pass to #GopherCon , but your budget is a little tight this year, our friends @Tailscale have offered to help the community. 💙 Send us an email at info @gopheracademy .com. #RoadToGopherCon #Golang

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The #GopherCon stage is ready for your brilliance, and we want YOU to take the spotlight! If you have a talk idea that revolves around the awesomeness of Go, we are all ears. We're accepting proposals until Monday, February 26th. That’s 2 WEEKS from today, so submit now!

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That feeling you have after submitting your proposal for #gophercon ! 1 day left Gophers! #golang #gopherconorbust

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4 years

Attention Gophers! Don’t miss out on the GopherCon 2020 Pre-Conference meetup tomorrow - October 28th. For all the details and to join please visit . During the meet up we will be chatting on #gophercon2020meetup Slack channel. #golang #GoVirConOrBust

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We have so many exciting things going on for Diversity this year. Thanks to everyone who is helping. GC17 will be amazing because of it.

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6 years

Here comes #GopherCon ! Check out this sweet speaker... a @womenwhogo organizer with a conf wardrobe filled with Pusheen, gopher & unicorn tees, if @carolynvs is not on the stage, she'll be sitting in the front row bringing a smile to other speakers' faces!

GopherCon 2024

Come and celebrate the 10th anniversary of GopherCon with us in Chicago! With exceptional pre-conference workshops taught by a few of the smartest people we know, some of the very best programming...

GopherCon 2022: Takeshi Yoneda - CGO-less Foreign Function Interface...

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2 years

Rounding out our weekend of gratitude, join @mathetake as he shows how @Tetrateio has open-sourced a WebAssembly runtime purely in Go called “wazero” to avoid CGO usage.

Foreign Function Interface(FFI) is a mechanism to invoke functions written in another language. In Go, there are only a few ways to achieve this, calling C f...