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**Carlisia Thompson:** Yeah, we had a lot of international scholarship recipients. We had people from Brazil, from India... It was really cool. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Oh, Nathan Youngman in the Slack channel brought up a good point, too - at the very end of the conference we always have leftover swag and stuff and we usually donate it... This year we decided to sell it just for pre-funding next year's diversity initiatives. Now I wish I had written down that fig... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** It was over 12k... |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, it was 12k and some change that we raised already... So that's awesome. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** It is. That's a really good seat for next year's diversity. So amazing... Thank you, everyone. |
Speaking of [Nathan Youngman](https://twitter.com/nathany), one of my most memorable moments of the conference was on the workshop day, when I walked around the corner and I saw some really skinny, Alton Brown-looking guy standing at the water cooler, and I did a full-on cartoon double take... And a moment later I said... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Yes. And you know what? I had the same reaction, I had to do a double take with Nathan; I was like "Oh..." Because I had seen his pictures on Twitter, I knew he lost weight, so I was prepared to see that, but I still had to do a double take. And I mentioned on Twitter, and I've been very loose ab... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** That's good. I think it's a great idea. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Yeah, developers getting healthier, definitely. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, every year I see the runners... There's generally groups of people who go off and run in the city, in the morning, bright and early... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** That's not me. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** This year sadly missing [Brad Fitzpatrick](https://twitter.com/bradfitz), though... All of our best to you, Brad. I know they're moments away from baby delivery, so if you're listening or if you do listen later, we hope that everything goes well with your delivery. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** \[16:01\] Yeah, definitely. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Babies rock, and Gopher babies rock more. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Right? Does the doctor give a "Looks good to me" thumb, too? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah. It has to go through Jerod. |
**Erik St. Martin:** \[laughs\] So we can either talk a bit about community day, or we can talk about talks first, and do them chronologically, in the order they occurred at the conference... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** No... That's way too structured for us. We can make that plan now, but we'll get sidetracked so fast that we'll feel like we didn't have a plan to begin with. I think that's a poor choice for us. I think we should just continue to free-form. Otherwise we look disorganized. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Free-form away, Brian! Lead us into the free-forming world! |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Erik brings up community day, and I think the standout awesome from community day was the Contributor Room that the Go team put together. That was so amazing... I don't remember the final count of people ( I wanna say it was like 150 people), but lots and lots of people went in and had mentors that ... |
I wanna say that there were, on that day alone, 40 contributions accepted and a lot more made, and I'm sure since then, many of those that were submitted have been accepted, too. So just a huge, huge shoutout to [Steve Francia](https://twitter.com/spf13) and others who set up that room, and the mentors who helped enabl... |
**Erik St. Martin:** They had a little dashboard going for points for types of contributions. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** I wanna say something about that, because I was there as a participant. It was amazing. I so loved that they did that, and I hope they do it every year. Actually, I talked to Steve, and I mentioned to him - and I wasn't the only one to mention this - that we should have that twice a year or maybe... |
But anyway, so there were two separate things we were doing in that room. One was going through the process -- they had something like a fake repo, and we were going through the process of submitting to Go, except that we weren't submitting to the Go repo, we were submitting to this fake repo. But the point was to get ... |
That was to get you through the process, and I don't wanna say it was simple, because you know, simple is very relative. I had done that before, I'm very familiar with Git, which helps, but I wanna say that there were so many people there to help. I actually got help - somebody was teaching me how to interpret, because... |
So that was one thing... And like Erik was saying, they had this dashboard, and there were like a thousand submissions, I think, just in one session. There were two sessions - one in the morning, one in the afternoon. So I highly recommend people who haven't gone through the process to go to this workshop (it's free) i... |
\[20:03\] And the other thing was like "Okay, you went through this process. How about now you go and make a submission to the Go repo?" and that's where the 40 submissions come from. A lot of people submitted code, or an example, or documentation, and they became Go contributors. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** One of the things that I thought was really fantastic about it was the Phoenix users group, I think. They took that same material and brought it home for their Go meetup. Was that you, Brian Downs? I'm pretty sure it was. He did a contributor workshop right after GopherCon and spread it even further... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Yeah, it really is easy to follow -- the workshop format is easy to follow, it's easy to replicate... The reason why I said I would like the Go team to do it more purposefully is that I would wish somebody from the Go team (a couple people) would be there to approve the submissions and give immed... |
Going through the process and making a first initial submission is really -- I hate saying "simple", but it's pretty straightforward. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** No, but it's intimidating. The idea of getting all set up is intimidating, to me. I remember -- it's been years since I did my first, but I remember spending a lot of time staring at the documents and thinking "How in the world...?" because it's not just a PR; it's not even close to just a PR. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Yeah, I meant for organizers who would be teaching people... Because what makes it simple for attendees is to have people there to help them. Once people explain it to you, they keep explaining however much you need, then in the end you'll hopefully be like "Oh yeah, okay, I get it now." At some ... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, I agree. That was the magic that made it all work well - having so many mentors there. |
**Erik St. Martin:** I think that there's also a degree of motivation there, too.... Because there's kind of the process of getting your -- what do they call it? Where you've gotta get added to be able to submit... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** The CLA? |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah. Did they make everybody there submit a CLA? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I'm sure they did, yeah. |
**Erik St. Martin:** So that ends up being a barrier to entry, and a lot of people feel like "Oh, well..." and [Ashley McNamara](https://twitter.com/ashleymcnamara) mentioned this in her talk, too - you don't have to be a wizard or a genius to contribute, but a lot of people feel that way, and then when there's this ad... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** It was a good initiative, so Steve Francia, [Jess Frazelle](https://twitter.com/jessfraz), [Russ Cox](https://twitter.com/_rsc), all the people who made that happen behind the scenes - our biggest congratulations for pulling off such an awesome show. It was a good deal. |
**Erik St. Martin:** And Brad Fitzpatrick, who even though he wasn't able to make it, he was there reviewing everybody's stuff... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** And he had a concurrency of Gophers next to him helping out, with this "Looks good to me" shirt on. It was awesome. |
You know, "concurrency" is the collective noun for a group of Gophers, right? A concurrency of Gophers. \[laughter\] |
**Carlisia Thompson:** That is true, right? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I'm sure it is. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** \[24:03\] Yeah, it is true now. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** If not, we've declared it so, right Carlisia? |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Absolutely. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Another room that takes place there every year is the GoBot room, put on by the Hybrid Group. That room is always packed, and it's really cool. That also had a lot of people contributing back to the GoBot project to support new hardware. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, that room was really cool this year. I went by -- I didn't hang out in the room a lot, but I went by five or six times and every single time I went, I saw kids from the family day activities, in the room, on the floor, controlling Spheros, or something like that. It was amazing to me that Ron ... |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, there was -- I'm trying to remember all of the activities there. There was a data science room, there was a container technologies room, lightning talks... Lightning talk quality was off the hook this year; there was a lot of good talks. I've heard and seen a lot of people tweeting about some... |
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