Go is an open source programming language that enables the production of simple, efficient, and reliable software at scale.

Edmonton Go is a meetup to collaborate, discuss, and learn Go.

Meetups

June 2015 Meetup

Packer machine images and code reading

Food at 6:30 pm. Please RSVP at Meetup or Google+. News and Talks at 6:45. Talks Packer Packer is a tool building machine images written in Go. Our resident devops guru, Fletcher Nichol, from Chef Software will be presenting on it. See also: images Code reading Back by popular demand, we’ll be doing a code reading activity in small groups. Some suggestions: container/heap is a [heap data structure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heap_(data_structure) interface provided by the Go standard library negroni is a middleware stack for Go (interpose is an alternative) gorilla/pat is a request router, and much simpler than gorilla/mux gorilla/context is a registry for request variables News GopherFest 2015 videos Go Team is working on a Code of Conduct, likely derived from Django Change Proposal Process for Go (mailing list) and Interim Code Review and Issue Tracker Conventions GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1 Go Newsletter and @EdmontonGo for more news Events GopherCon 2015 - July 8-9 at the Colorado Convention Center Edmonton Go Meetup - July

May 2015 Meetup

Lightning Talks

Food at 6:30 pm. Please RSVP at Meetup or Google+. News and Talks at 6:45. Lightning Talks Short ~10 minute talks on Go or something you’re using Go for. Dockerize Go and Redis Chris Olsen (source) Testing in Go Matthias Stone Go Arrays & Slices Nathan Youngman (slides) News Introducing gb, a project based build tool for the Go programming language by Dave Cheney (getgb.io) go-bootstrap, default web project. Events Monthly Hack Day - May 13 GopherCon 2015 - July 8-9 at the Colorado Convention Center Edmonton Go Meetup - June

April 2015 Meetup

MongoDB

Food at 6:30 pm. Please RSVP at Meetup or Google+. News and Talks at 6:45. Talks Running MongoDB Queries Concurrently With Go William Kennedy will be presenting (via Google Hangout) on using MongoDB and the mgo library (pronounced “mango”) for Go. News GopherCon Speakers & Talks Announced Go 1.5 To Do List Articles and Talks Interview with Go’s Russ Cox and Sameer Ajmani More Research Problems of Implementing Go by Dmitry Vyukov Building Database Driven Apps With Go by Anna Navatsyk Events Monthly Hackathon - April 11 Docker’s Birthday Party March 23-April 19 Go Challenge - Monthly GopherCon 2015 - July 8-9 at the Colorado Convention Center Edmonton Go Meetup - May

Where

Hosted at Startup Edmonton
Suite 301, 10359 - 104 Street

When

Third Thursday of each month at 6:30 pm.

How to get there

By transit: From Bay Station walk north on 104th St. to Mercer Warehouse.
By car: Check ParkingPanda for rates on Rogers Place event nights.