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**Carlisia Thompson:** I think so, too. |
**Erik St. Martin:** So for anybody who's not aware, as we're recording this today on the 3rd of August, so this is about two weeks ago, GopherCon occurred, which is a very large conference for the Go programming language, in case you're not already familiar; that happens in July every year. We spent three days there, ... |
Anybody want to talk about overall thoughts and just kind of feelings walking away, excitement? |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Man, we need to be more precise, because I don't know where to begin... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, the energy level was insane. It was just constant high energy, and everybody came up and told me specifically that they just felt like the energy this year was higher than any other year and it just felt like such a fun happening, happy place to be. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** I can't gauge it anymore because it's my third one, and every year I go, I meet more people, so every year it's more comfortable, and I don't know "Okay, is it better because I know more people, which I like? Or is it better because the conference is better?", but I think this year it was apparen... |
**Erik St. Martin:** It's Denver, are you sure you weren't on drugs? |
**Carlisia Thompson:** \[03:52\] Yeah, I don't think I was... I was just drinking; I'm pretty sure, but I don't know, because it's Denver. But I felt like it! And it made me feel so happy looking at other Go developers who were also happy, and dancing, and having the greatest time... So thank you so much for everybody ... |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, there were so many great people doing that... So if you weren't at GopherCon or you skipped the welcome party, what Carlisia is talking about is at the welcome party at the Punch Bowl Social, we had a full fair-level stage with lighting and stuff set up, and there was a local band there that ... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** It's gonna be tough, there were a lot of people. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, and Brian was also in the band... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Mark Bates... \[laughs\] |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, [Mark Bates](https://twitter.com/markbates), [Cassandra Salisbury](https://twitter.com/Cassandraoid),Vanessa, [Kris Nova](https://twitter.com/krisnova)... Who else? [Brian Downs](https://twitter.com/bdowns328)... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, [Roger Peppe](https://twitter.com/rogpeppe) |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Jaana, [JBD](https://twitter.com/rakyll)... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, JBD... |
**Erik St. Martin:** And it was really awesome though, because everybody kind of got up there and performed, and the band that was there kind of backfilled positions that we didn't have community members for. That was actually Brian's idea to do the band thing. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Kyle... Wasn't Kyle in the band as well? I forgot his last name. From Denver... No, I don't know. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** No, no. |
**Erik St. Martin:** It was really great, and one of the things I loved about that, and I was telling -- it might have been [Adam](https://twitter.com/adamstac), when they were doing the little Changelog interviews I was talking about that one of the things I love the most about that is we often admire people for their... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Let me also say that I'm a really bad introvert, and I had that realization after this GopherCon... So this is what a good introvert looks like, and I know this because I've seen one - [Katrina Owen](https://twitter.com/kytrinyx), sometimes you see her at a conference and she'll be walking out in... |
A bad introvert like me just keeps on going... That's what I do every time I go to a conference, I just keep going, morning, day and night, and I don't ever say no to meeting somebody or having dinner or having drinks. Man, I was so exhausted when I came back, I couldn't even function. So next time I need to take at le... |
**Erik St. Martin:** I'm in that camp too, the bad introvert camp, where I overwhelm myself a whole week, and then I go home and it's like "Nobody talk to me." |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, "I'm in my cave." |
**Erik St. Martin:** I need to recharge... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** It's hard though, when you get that much interaction, that much social pressure, condensed, and then you're done... It's just like "Okay, I'm done. I don't wanna talk to people, I don't wanna talk to nobody. No, no, no. Just leave me alone. I'll be in my cave." I don't know if there's a better way t... |
**Erik St. Martin:** One thing too that I wanted to point out from the earlier point that Carlisia made is this was kind of like the biggest one yet, but I felt a lot more -- I don't wanna say any of the prior years didn't have that tight-knit community feeling, because they really did... But I feel like it's getting e... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** \[08:23\] All of it was, everything about it was just fantastic. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** My most memorable day -- I mean, this has nothing to do with the conference, it's more about me... It is about me now - I had dinner twice. \[laughter\] |
**Erik St. Martin:** In one night? |
**Carlisia Thompson:** In one night. I had the Women Who Go dinner, which I couldn't miss, of course, and then I had another dinner that I also didn't wanna miss. I'm like "Okay, so I eat two salads in one", and then I went and had a regular dinner afterwards. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** That's funny. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Yeah, life is tough when you go to GopherCon. |
**Erik St. Martin:** I had a never-ending dinner one night... Was it the first night? I think it was workshop day, so the night most people came in traveling. We were in the -- what's the name of the restaurant downstairs? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** The Buffalo burger place? Stout Street Social. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Stout Street Social, which is directly across the street from the Convention Center, and downstairs from where a lot of us were staying... And we met a group of people that were there; Brian, I think you were part of the initial group, or maybe you weren't... But there were like 10-15 people there,... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I came and went three times during the course of that... Like six hours. |
**Erik St. Martin:** You did, you did come back... \[laughs\] |
**Brian Ketelsen:** So yes, I agree, that was the longest dinner ever. Every time I was surprised to see you there. \[laughter\] |
**Erik St. Martin:** Like, "You haven't bailed yet?" |
**Carlisia Thompson:** So I mentioned the [Women Who Go dinner](https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Go/events/237247090/), and that reminds me to talk about this - we're definitely gonna get to the talks and other things, but I wanna mention about the diversity efforts and how many women were there. I think it's safe to s... |
This year was the first year that it was noticeable that there were women at the conference. And there was such a big effort to increase the number of people from diverse backgrounds with the scholarships that we had, and I also realized some people who didn't go, who could have applied, didn't know about it, so heads ... |
So from those applications we got a bunch of people, and the Women Who Go dinner was packed. I think there were 50 women there. We got a nice gift from Azure, the power charger thing, a portable charger... Which is not a flask, Joshua, it's an actual charger... \[laughter\] |
**Brian Ketelsen:** No alcohol involved...? |
**Carlisia Thompson:** It's not that kind of charger, although that would have been welcome for me, too. Now that I think about it, I think I'm gonna fix that problem, because I don't have a flask, anyway. |
And we had also the buddy system that was before, and people who have gone to the conference can sign up to be a guide, and people who had never been to the conference can sign up to be a buddy, and we had a nice breakfast. [Andy Walker](https://twitter.com/flowchartsman) lead that effort, and he did such a great job. ... |
\[12:08\] So we had a breakfast, and I got to meet a bunch of people who I'd never heard of before, and some who I'd heard of online but never met in person. It was beautiful, and it was great to see those people mingling in the conference as well. What else...? |
**Erik St. Martin:** You know, international travel, too. Each year we know there's a large number of countries represented... I wanna say this year it was like 33, or something like that. So I know the number of countries, but at the beginning when Brian and I were doing the welcome notes, and I asked everybody to sit... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, I was blown away by the international travel. |
**Erik St. Martin:** That's a long flight, to Denver... |
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