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**Carlisia Thompson:** A million dollars... \[laughter\] And it's tax-deductible, because women who Go now is part of [Bridge Foundry](https://bridgefoundry.org/), same as [GoBridge](https://golangbridge.org/). I don't know how the tax-deductible part of this works for the Women Who Go for this initiative, but I think ... |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, the Bridge Foundry, which is a 501(c)(3) probably collects the money, which makes it tax-deductible. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** I don't know, just because it's dumping at the website via this Generosity.com website, so I don't know how that applies. |
**Erik St. Martin:** And we should soon too be... So in addition to trying to help with that, we also will be doing a diversity and economic hardship type scholarship initiative too, once we finish getting some more planning in place for some of the other GopherCon stuff. But there will be ways for people to apply for ... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Yeah. GoBridge is also going to be doing something... They'll make an announcement in a little bit... |
**Luna Duclos:** Are there any plans for a GopherCon outside of the U.S. yet? I wonder... |
**Erik St. Martin:** We keep thinking and talking about that. |
**Luna Duclos:** Oh, okay. |
**Erik St. Martin:** We've also been saying that about regionals, too... I think it comes down to time, because right now Brian and I have day job stuff that pays the bills, and it's already kind of demanding enough on our nights and weeks and stuff to do the one event. So that's why we keep talking about, "Well, how c... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** The answer to that is "Really crazy." |
**Erik St. Martin:** But we keep talking about it, and if we can find ways to make that work schedule-wise, where we can have the time to work on more than one, yeah, we definitely keep talking about doing another one and where we might do it. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Sweden. |
**Luna Duclos:** I would definitely dig Sweden, because I live there. So... Yes, please! \[laughter\] |
**Erik St. Martin:** \[40:00\] I've never been to Sweden, sounds like fun. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Spain... \[laughs\] |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Spain would be awesome. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Spain, yeah... Southern Spain. |
**Luna Duclos:** Sounds good, too... I have to admit. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** One more thing I wanted to mention - there is now an official [Go contribution guide](https://golang.org/doc/contribute.html). [Steve Francia](https://twitter.com/spf13) put it together recently (maybe last week). It gives you all the steps that you need to do to contribute to Go. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** That's awesome. I haven't looked at it yet. I saw his announcement, but it's long overdue. |
**Luna Duclos:** That's nice. |
**Erik St. Martin:** He works ridiculously fast. We've just had him on a couple episodes ago and we were talking about some of this stuff, and he's already on it. |
**Luna Duclos:** Way to go! |
**Brian Ketelsen:** That's a big doc, too... |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, I can't believe I haven't even seen this. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** I'll drop a link on Slack. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Alright, I'm leaving a tab open... That's a "read later", which gets demoted to "read tomorrow" and then "read this weekend"... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** And then "read never"... \[laughter\] |
**Carlisia Thompson:** And then Chrome blows up... |
**Erik St. Martin:** And then it becomes a bookmark... And two years from now I clean up my bookmarks. \[laughter\] |
**Brian Ketelsen:** At least we're honest about it. You know, there was one more package that I wanted to talk about... CockroachDB actually had a blog post about it too, The Arbitrary Precision Decimal Package, so that they could manage data types at arbitrary precision with a little bit more speed than Go allows. So ... |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, we'll find it and we'll drop it in the show notes before this episode is released. So I think now is a perfect time for our second sponsor break. Our second sponsor for today is The Ultimate Go Training Series. |
**Break:** \[42:10\] |
**Erik St. Martin:** Alright, we are back, talking to Luna Duclos. Before this break we were just talking about interesting projects and news and stuff, but let's get a little personal here... If you were not developing backend systems for games, what would you be doing? I think this would be a fun thing to start askin... |
**Luna Duclos:** That's a really good question... What would I be doing? |
**Erik St. Martin:** And it doesn't even have to be tech? |
**Luna Duclos:** I think I would be full-time doing conferences, or working at some cloud provider somewhere on their cloud infrastructure... Or both. |
**Erik St. Martin:** By doing conferences you mean hosting them, or attending all of them that you can, speaking at them? All of the above? |
**Luna Duclos:** \[43:54\] Speaking at them and attending, and maybe organize some smaller ones. I've been organizing FOSDAM when I can, because the Go team hasn't been able to do it, so I took that over. Stuff like that, and meetups that aren't too huge to organize. I wouldn't be able to organize something like Gopher... |
**Erik St. Martin:** I don't even know if we can organize GopherCon... |
**Luna Duclos:** Yeah, I think that's questionable. |
**Erik St. Martin:** It's grown to a scale far beyond our ability, so over the years we've hired people to help with different parts and logistics and things like that. It's interesting though... I love the involvement with the community and doing things for the community, especially the day of the event, seeing how ex... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** We need to make one of those GopherCon excitement curve graphics where you show the day of the conference - excitement level 11, and then four months before the conference - excitement level -50. \[laughter\] It's almost like the adoption curve, maturity model... During the conference it couldn't be... |
**Luna Duclos:** I understand. |
**Erik St. Martin:** As much as I hate to make the comparison, the way I see it is it's kind of like women in pregnancy... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Oh, danger, Will Robinson! |
**Erik St. Martin:** "I'm never doing this again! I'm done!" Like, "I'm so ready for this baby..." and then later they see another cute baby, they're like "Oh, I want another one..." \[laughter\] It's the same thing for us. We go through our period where we're like "I don't know whether I wanna do this again" and then ... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, three years in a row, we've said... And after the conference we're like "We're not doing this again!" \[laughter\] |
**Luna Duclos:** You have been doing it again! |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, it's amazing how that works. |
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