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**Carlisia Thompson:** Wow, very cool.
**Erik St. Martin:** That's awesome. And Travis, we're kind of blind siding you here, but do you have a project you'd like to give a shout out to?
**Travis Reeder:** Probably the ones I mentioned earlier?
**Erik St. Martin:** That's true, we did give shout outs a lot in this episode.
**Brian Ketelsen:** It's good, though.
**Travis Reeder:** And I can't forget Docker, I suppose, after talking about containers.
**Erik St. Martin:** Docker's an easy one.
**Travis Reeder:** Yeah.
**Erik St. Martin:** For me, I guess recently just the fsnotify, which Nathan Youngman has kind of taken over that and adapted the API to this spec the Go team kind of suggested. Anybody who's unfamiliar with it, it's basically for monitoring file system changes on files. With that being said, all of these projects and...
**Travis Reeder:** No problem, it was good to be here.
**Erik St. Martin:** There's rumor that you guys are doing some kind of major announcement in the near future, and maybe we can get you to come back on and talk about that.
**Travis Reeder:** I'd love to, yeah.
**Erik St. Martin:** If you're not already subscribed, go to GoTime.fm and you can subscribe to the podcast and the newsletter. We are also @GoTimeFM on Twitter. What else am I missing here...? GitHub - if you wanna make suggestions for people to come on the show or topics, github.com/gotimefm/ping. With that said, let...
**Brian Ketelsen:** Hey Travis, on behalf of everybody, thanks so much for all you do in the Go community, we truly appreciate all that you and Iron.io do to facilitate Go, in San Francisco especially, it's really awesome.
**Travis Reeder:** Good to hear, thank you guys.
**Carlisia Thompson:** Absolutely, I'll second that. Thank you.
**Erik St. Martin:** Alright everybody.
**Carlisia Thompson:** Goodbye.
**Brian Ketelsen:** Goodbye.
**Travis Reeder:** Bye guys, that was fun!
• GopherCon recap and experiences
• Francesc Campoy's talk on embracing nil in Go
• Nil use cases, including setting channels to nil in select statements
• Leaking goroutines and concurrent programming pitfalls
• Go project updates, including the Gotrace package for visualizing concurrency
• Discussion about a talk on the Eratosthenes Prime Sieve and its visualization
• Release of videos from GopherCon: timing and process
• Live streaming of talks and potential impact on physical attendance
• Benefits of conferences beyond just attending talks (networking, community)
• Go project room discussions, including dependency discussion and vendoring
• Plans for future GopherCon events
• Proposal for a parade balloon gopher mascot
• Favorite talks from GopherCon (Katrina's talk on fluency vs. proficiency)
• Discussion of community growth and welcoming newcomers to Go programming
• Importance of user feedback and diversity in the Go community
• Need for better resources for beginners, including teaching methods and tools
• Feedback loop discussion on tour complexity and wording
• Collaborative book project proposal for high school students
• Review of Renee French's talk about the Go Gopher design process
• Discussion of Linode sponsorship and its cloud services
• Discussion of a talk about vendoring and tooling in Go development
• Talk "Inside The Map Implementation" from Keith Randall being praised for its technicality and humor
• Use of the "unsafe" package in Go, including potential risks and alternatives (such as creating an alias)
• Proposal to create a new top-level domain or vanity package for safe pointer usage
• Diversity discussions at GopherCon, including ideas for improving newcomer materials and outreach to underrepresented communities
• Ideas for making the Go community more approachable, including learning from other languages like Ruby
• Discussion of projects and initiatives aimed at increasing diversity in the Go community, such as Women Who Go and GoBridge
• Abstraction of Go interface for hardware and robotics projects
• Ron Evans' Gobot room at Hack Day (now renamed Community Day)
• Feedback from attendees on previous years' Hack Days/Community Days
• Potential for a Family Track or Kids' Programming Area with robots and drones
• Sponsorship opportunities for the Family Track/Kids' Programming Area
• Promotion of sponsor Equinox, which provides packaging and distribution services for Go applications
• Discussion of ngrok and its relationship to Equinox
• Erik St Martin's reluctance to appear on camera
• GopherCon Brasil conference announcement and preparations
• Buntdb project discussion and its features
• CleverGopher channel on Gopher Slack for posting gophie photos
• Various conference-related topics, including CFP, registration, and sponsorships
• A humorous exchange about a domain name registration (github.com/totesafe)
• Discussion about a person bringing swag on an airplane that triggered TSA screening
• Tips for traveling with electronics and luggage through airport security
• Shoutouts to open source projects:
• Docker
• Tsuru (a Platform as a Service alternative to Heroku)
• Audacity (an open source digital audio editor used by the Google Cloud Platform Podcast)
• Direnv (a tool for managing environment variables and shell commands)
**Erik St. Martin:** We are back with for another episode of Go Time. This is episode number 13. Before we kick off this show I wanna give a quick shout out to our sponsors for this episode. Linode, Changelog's cloud server of choice, and Equinox.io, the best way to package and distribute your Go apps.
Today on the show we have myself, Erik St. Martin, Brian Ketelsen is also on the line...
**Brian Ketelsen:** A Brian Ketelsen without much sleep, apparently.
**Erik St. Martin:** So half of Brian Ketelsen is on the line, and then we also have Carlisia Campos...
**Carlisia Thompson:** Alive and kicking after GopherCon.
**Erik St. Martin:** And our special guest for today's show is Francesc Campoy from the Go Team. Say hello, Francesc.
**Francesc Campoy:** Hey, how are you doing?