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Last week, Go Meetup groups around the world arranged events on the same day to celebrate the release of Go 1.8, so I decided to get my city (Leeds, UK) involved and organised an event.
Alan [0] from Hitachi Capital did a talk on his team's experience of adopting Go, I talked about why I think it's worth learning Go, and Craig Andrews [1] did an update on what's new in Go 1.8.
My slides are up online at [2]
I had no idea whether there would be any interest and had just planned to use the Infinity Works office, but when I put tickets up on EventBrite, 30 went really quickly. Infinity Works then kindly sponsored both an event space and the bar for the night.
We did a hands-on session after the talks and all the speakers helped people to get Go installed and to write their first programs - everyone got at least past "Hello, World!" with a lot of people getting to running Web servers, and some writing Web scrapers.
Getting line and character positions from Go's JSON unmarshal errors
Mob Programming and No Estimates at Agile in Leeds
