Go work groups and hardware projects

Jaana B. Dogan joined the show to talk about hardware geekery, on-boarding people into Go, the state of the feedback loop with the Go team, and her initiative to create Go Work Groups.

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Featuring:

• Jaana Dogan – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
• Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Cory LaNou – Twitter

Show Notes:

• Gopher Gala
• bobbleHat: A Go library to support Raspberry Pi HATs
• From NAND to Tetris
• Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: From Nand to Tetris (Coursera)
• GopherCon 2016: Katrina Owen - Mind the Gap (video)
• A Tour of Go
• Learn Java
• Rust Book
• Go Blog
• Kubernetes Special Interest Groups

Interesting Go Projects and News

• New Netflix Chaos Monkey
• Docker chaos testing tool
• Gophers Slack meetup organizers channel

Free Software Friday

• Cory ­- Shout out to the organizers of all local Go meetups. Specifically the organizers of Chicago Ultimate Golang (Varun) and Minneapolis Ultimate Golang (Eric, Jack, Nick, and Calvin) — each of whom put those cities back on track.
• Erik - Kubernetes Special Interest Groups
• Carlisia - Gophers Slack @gopher bot

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