January 2016: Gala Recap

Please RSVP at Meetup or Google+.

We get things started at 6:30 pm.

Sponsors

Pizza provided by Bellstone Engineering and they're hiring. Venue provided by Startup Edmonton.

Manning Publications eBook Giveaway:

• Go Web Programming by Sau Sheong Chang
• Algorithms of the Intelligent Web, Second Edition by Douglas G. McIlwraith, Haralambos Marmanis, and Dmitry Babenko
• Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, Second Edition by John Resig, Bear Bibeault, and Josip Maras

News

• Go 1.6 is coming soon

Gala Recap

This will be an informal meetup where those participating in the Gopher Gala will have a chance to share what they built.

Space Gophers

A tank-like game with a Go game server and a CreateJS front-end.

• Kether Saturnius
• Wyatt Johnson (Calgary)
• Michal Nicpon (Calgary)

View on GitHub.

GoTyper

A word typing game where you can buy goroutines to help you type. Built with termloop.

• Scott Brooks

View on GitHub.

GoBotGo

GoBotGo is a competitive Go (board game) arena written in Go (#golang) for bots to play via an HTTP API.

• Matthias Stone
• Evan Hollenbeck
• Brett Mckay

View on GitHub.

bobbleHAT

A Go library for Raspberry Pi HATs (Hardware Attached on Top).

• Nathan Youngman
• Carlisia Campos (California)
• Ravi Sastryk (California)
• Olga Shalakhina (Ukraine)

View on GitHub.

Vote

Community voting is open until Saturday, January 30th at 6pm.

Events

• Gopher Gala - January 22-24 (Registration required) in Edmonton.
• Global Game Jam - Jan 29-31 (Registration required)
• Monthly Hack Day - February 6 (Registration required)
• Edmonton Go Meetup - February - Go 1.6 release party