Two Year Recap

Two years ago Edmonton Go was just an idea. Thanks to Startup Edmonton for generously providing the space, and to Daniel Huckstep for the requisite kick-in-the-pants, January 27, 2014 marked our first meetup.

Together we’ve enjoyed talks, discussions, code reading, hack nights, videos, workshops, cake eating, sphero battles, and other activities. A dozen people delivered 34 talks, sharing their knowledge and experience with everyone. Thank you so much for your contribution!

If you would like to revisit past talks, presentation slides are often available. An alphabetical list of speakers follows:

Abram Hindle:

• Iteration in Go (February 2014)
• Generic map (April 2014)

Brett McKay:

• Go and Databases (February 2015)

Chris Olsen:

• Dockerize Go and Redis (May 2015)

Curtis Collicutt:

• Software Defined Networking with Gerrit Renker (August 2015)

Daniel Huckstep:

• Go’s Secret C Interface (March 2014)
• Reflection (May 2014)
• The Go Standard Library (October 2014)

Fletcher Nichol:

• Summary of Gophercon with Nathan Youngman (April 2014)
• Docker (September 2014)
• Packer (June 2015)

Gerrit Renker:

• Command line user interfaces (July 2015)
• Software Defined Networking with Curtis Collicutt (August 2015)
• Messaging patterns and job queues in Go (November 2015)

Matthias Stone:

• Testing talk/testify (March 2014)
• httptest and sqlmock (April 2014)
• text/template (June 2014)
• HTML Templates (September 2014)
• Go generate (November 2014)
• What’s New in Go 1.5 (August 2015)
• gorename - how the sausage is made (September 2015)
• The go present tool (October 2015)

Nathan Youngman:

• Types & Methods (January 2014)
• Interfaces, empty interfaces, type switches and type assertions (Feb 2014)
• Composition & Delegation (March 2014)
• Summary of Gophercon with Fletcher Nichol. (April 2014)
• Contributing to Go (May 2014)
• Packages and Dependencies (September 2014)
• Hugo static site generator (October 2014)
• What’s Coming in Go 1.4 (November 2014)
• Amazon S3 with Go (January 2015)
• GopherCon recap (July 2015)

Nicholas Boers:

• Introduction to Reflection (August 2015)

Prateek Srivastava:

• Go on Android (November 2014)

Scott Brooks:

• Gift - Gopher Gala (February 2015)
• Embedding Go into C (September 2015)

It’s been a great two years, and I’m looking forward to what 2016 holds. If you would like to participate in the planning of future events, join the discussion on GitHub.

Have a very Merry Christmas, and see you all in January.