Experiences from GopherCon 2023

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

The 10th GopherCon took place the last week of September and it was a blast. In this episode, we’re talking about our experiences at the conference from several different viewpoints. Angelica as a conference organizer, Johnny as an emcee and workshop instructor, Kaylyn as a speaker, and Kris as a regular attendee.

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Featuring:

• Kaylyn Gibilterra – GitHub, X
• Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
• Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

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1. Welcome to Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Kaylyn (00:00:45)

3. Organizing (00:06:45)

4. Russ Cox (00:12:25)

5. Captions (00:18:41)

6. Café X: By Any Beans Necessary (00:23:36)

7. Neurospicy meetup (00:33:05)

8. Meetup Organizers Unite! (00:37:09)

9. The RainGo Alliance Meetup (00:38:32)

10. Everywhere all at once (00:43:53)

11. Fangirling over Rebecca Bilbro (00:51:04)

12. Unpopular opinions! (00:57:18)

13. Kaylyn's unpop (00:58:26)

14. Kaylyn's 2nd unpop (00:59:24)

15. Angelica's unpop (01:00:23)

16. Johnny's unpop (01:01:43)

17. Kris' unpop (01:04:54)

18. Outro (01:14:31)