Galvanize/Gather: 1062 Delaware Street, Denver CO 80204 - ViaWest Cloud Conference Room East.
Just walk through Gather (the restaruant) and we are in the second conference room on the left.
There will be a sign outside the door promoting our meetup.
- 6:30 - Meet and Greet. Drink some beer and eat some pizza compliments of bwbacon group.
- 6:40 - 6:45 - Brief introduction from our sponsors bwbacon group bwbacon.com.
Special thanks to them for the beer and pizza! - 6:45 - 7:00 - Continue eating/drinking. Meet/Greet/Introductions.
- 7:00 - 8:00 - Round Table: We had several topics to pick through, but looking at the attendess,
we are going to have people that know nothing about Go, and some that have some pretty good experience.
We had this format for our first meeting, and it went great. We will be doing adhoc programming on the
big screen to show examples of code, as well as we are open to helping with anyones project as well.
Feel free to bring your ideas/questions. There will be plenty of us to split into groups as well if we want to focus on different areas. - 8:00 - 9:00 - Question and Answer session.
- GO+ This community is really picking up and has a lot of great posts and resources
- GO wiki A little about everything here. Check here first if you are looking for more resources on go
- golang.org The official site for the GO language
- Go Playground Create and share go snippets
- Go Tour Great way to learn go for the first time
- Effective Go This is a MUST read for anybody learning go as an experienced developer
- Additional Effective Go Notes
- 10 Things you (probably) didn't know about go - Amazing quick tips for making you a better go programmer. This is a post in response to most people new to go and what they have an "alergic" reaction to. MUST READ for new developers!
- Golang Videos Amazing videos explaining key areas and concepts about go. The first video about Concurrency is amazing!
- loader.io Just released, this is a cloud based load testing tool. Very impressive tool.
- Go By Example
- Golang-book
- Go book app spot
- Meetup.com Official meetup site with all the scheduled meetups
- Github Github account used to post before and after code/comments from our meetups
- @DenverGophers Our twitter account. Please follow us to find out the latest news/events in the local area about go!
- G+ Our G+ Community page.
Galvanize creates an “innovation ecosystem” designed to give entrepreneurs and innovators the best chance of success at the start of their next (or first) big thing. Through the three pillars of Capital, Community, and Curriculum, Galvanize builds a community greater than the sum of its parts to spark disruptive ideas and breakout companies.
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