Go Portland Tech is a chance for everyone involved in Portland technology to come try their hand at Go, a game that is loved by geeks the world over.

Go is both thousands of years old, simple to learn, and poses interesting computer science problems (a computer player has yet to beat the best humans, and amateurs can still beat the bots too).

Regular Portland Go club meetups are held on Tuesdays and Saturdays (see: OregonGo.org) but this is a chance for tech folks that are seasoned players or absolute beginners to get together and share a game. No experience is necessary to attend.

Go Portland Tech is a chance for everyone involved in Portland technology to come try their hand at Go, a game that is loved by geeks the world over.

Go is both thousands of years old, simple to learn, and poses interesting computer science problems (a computer player has yet to beat the best humans, and amateurs can still beat the bots too).

Regular Portland Go club meetups are held on Tuesdays and Saturdays (see: OregonGo.org) but this is a chance for tech folks that are seasoned players or absolute beginners to get together and share a game.

No experience is necessary to attend, and there will be drinks and snacks.

Go Portland Tech is a chance for everyone involved in Portland technology to come try their hand at Go, a game that is loved by geeks the world over.

Go is both thousands of years old, simple to learn, and poses interesting computer science problems (a computer player has yet to beat the best humans, and amateurs can still beat the bots too).

Regular Portland Go club meetups are held on Tuesdays and Saturdays (see: OregonGo.org) but this is a chance for tech folks that are seasoned players or absolute beginners to get together and share a game.

No experience is necessary to attend, and there will be drinks and snacks.

The first meeting of the Portland Go Users group. Brad Fitzpatrick of livejournal, memcached, and most recently Go fame will present a talk on the upcoming v1.1 release, with a general Q&A, followed by time for socializing and hacking on Go projects. Beer and space graciously provided by Urban Airship.

Portland Go users will share, discuss, and hack. Space and beer graciously provided by Cloudability.

If you're interested in writing systems in Google Go and like talking to other people about it then this may be just the opportunity for you!

This is a first meeting so we'll keep it informal and plan to do some code sharing, hacking and talking. If there is enough interest we could plan something more tangible from here.

Join the core Go Language Team who will be in town for OSCon and local PDX Gophers at Esri R&D on Tuesday the 22nd, 6:00PM. We're excited to host a talk night featuring members of the team who are building Go and its ecosystem! All knowledge levels welcome!

Google will be sponsoring food and drink to stimulate the socializing and discussion. Special thanks to Esri R&D for hosting and Google for sponsoring.

Please RSVP via the Meetup Event so we can organize appropriately!

6:00-7:00PM: Arrive and mingle

7:00-8:30PM: Talks and Q&A

Francesc Campoy Flores: Go Best Practices

More TBA(Meetup page will probably get updated more frequently so check there).

Until closing: Mingle and/or disperse to experience Portland's fantastic food and pubs

PDXGo Twitter for more updates and future events!

August PDXGo Project Night!

Every month for the next few months we'll be having hack nights at Urban Airship paired with PDXPython's hack night. This is mainly due to discovering how many people are actually interested in Go and social hacking. If numbers are steady and large enough, I'll try to organize our own space, however I know not everyone in the Go community is interested in hack nights, so until the numbers are repeatedly high enough to warrant our own space, PDXPython is happy to host us!

All skill and interest levels welcome! If you have questions on a project or part of the GoTour feel free to bring them, there will probably be someone who can help!

Please RSVP!

Helps organize seating!

When

Wednesday August 13th 2014
6:30 PM

Where

Urban Airship Upstairs Lounge Follow the PDXPython signs to Urban Airships comfy lounge, we will be towards the back of the room, look for the PDXGO signs and a Gopher plushie. I'll try and arrange some circular seating for people to convene around.

As for etiquette, it's necessary to note that this is PDXPython's hack night, so please respect the Pythonistas and their Code of Conduct (Be nice, don't be a jerk) and everything will be great. :)

Gather with other Gophers for an evening of Talks and discussion around Golang! All experience levels welcome, don't forget to bring your questions.

Talks and Discussion:
Esri R&D's Geobin project. Learn how Esri wrangle gophers into displaying location data!

Reverse Q&A: Bring your questions and ask the whole group in a discussion format.

Thanks to Esri R&D for hosting us once again!

August PDXGo Project Night!

Every month for the next few months we'll be having hack nights at Urban Airship paired with PDXPython's hack night. This is mainly due to discovering how many people are actually interested in Go and social hacking. If numbers are steady and large enough, I'll try to organize our own space, however I know not everyone in the Go community is interested in hack nights, so until the numbers are repeatedly high enough to warrant our own space, PDXPython is happy to host us!

All skill and interest levels welcome! If you have questions on a project or part of the GoTour feel free to bring them, there will probably be someone who can help!

Please RSVP!

Helps organize seating!

When

Wednesday August 13th 2014
6:30 PM

Where

Urban Airship Upstairs Lounge Follow the PDXPython signs to Urban Airships comfy lounge, we will be towards the back of the room, look for the PDXGO signs and a Gopher plushie. I'll try and arrange some circular seating for people to convene around.

As for etiquette, it's necessary to note that this is PDXPython's hack night, so please respect the Pythonistas and their Code of Conduct (Be nice, don't be a jerk) and everything will be great. :)

Learn about Go and join other Gophers for a night of learning and discussion. Welcome to all skill levels!

Talk: [TBA]

Gather with fellow Gophers for an evening of Talks and discussion around Golang! All experience levels welcome, but this specific talk night will be more advanced!

In January it was stated that Second Tuesdays of the month would always be PDXGo event night. Well, this February gets the extra fortune of having a second night thanks to a special guest from Google being in town! So there will be two nights; advanced and beginner oriented! The advanced night will be the standard time Second Tuesday Feb 10th, and special beginner night on Thursday the 12th.

Schedule:

Hang out and chat with other Gophers until about 6:30

Talk: Kelsey Hightower will be talking about CoreOS's new container project Rocket! Rocket is a CLI for running App Containers. The goal of rocket is to be composable, secure, and fast.

Rocket is entering the same service container space as Docker, and it will be exciting to see how the two Golang projects develop and contrast!

Continue discussion over beers at Baileys!

Thanks to Esri R&D for hosting us once again!

Gather with fellow Gophers for an evening of Talks and discussion around Golang! All experience levels welcome, but night will focus on learning Go! If you're interested in something more advanced and less hands on come to our Talk night and learn about CoreOS's Rocket on February 10th.

This February gets the extra fortune of having a second night thanks to a special guest being in town. So there will be two nights; advanced and beginner oriented! The advanced night will be the standard time Second Tuesday Feb 10th, and special beginner night on Thursday the 12th.

Workshop night for Beginners: Francesc Campoy Flores from Google will be in town for advocacy events and will run a beginner Go workshop! The topic has yet to be finalized, but the workshop will take someone unfamiliar with Go and work through a fun project as a group in around two hours. An example project for the curious(not necessarily the actual project):

Simple link sharing app

More details will be announced once topics are finalized!

PS: Check the meetup page for the latest updates.

Gather with fellow Gophers for an evening of Talks and discussion around Golang! All experience levels welcome!

Schedule:

Hang out and chat with other Gophers until about 6:30

Lightning Talks! 3-15 minutes

No prior experience giving lighting talks, or slides required. Have a project you'd like to show off or get feedback on? Debugged an interesting issue in the Go universe and want to share your insights? Found a useful project or tool that others might benefit knowing about? Come talk about it!

Bring your questions and ask the whole group in an open discussion format as well.

Continue discussion over beers at [TBD]!

Learn about Go and join other Gophers for a night of learning and discussion. Welcome to all skill levels! Hang out and chat with other Gophers until about 6:30

Bring your questions and ask the whole group in an open discussion format!

Talk: This month we'll have guest speaker Ian Smith of Igneous Systems talking about Seven5: an opinionated, stiff web framework for go on the server and client.

Seven5 is interesting to both Go developers and Javascript developers because it takes the unique position of adopting Go as the language for both the client and server side of a modern web application.

Thank you to Esri for the location, and Culture Foundry for continuing to provide refreshments! Please RSVP if intend to come!

Learn about Go and join other Gophers for a night of learning and discussion. Welcome to all skill levels! Hang out and chat with other Gophers until about 6:30

Bring your questions and ask the whole group in an open discussion format!

Talk: Go-Bootstrap

Didip Kerabat will be talking about his new skeleton web project Go-Bootstrap! A curated and composable set of Go libraries to get your web project running quickly!

Thank you to Esri for the location, and Culture Foundry for continuing to provide refreshments! Please RSVP if intend to come!

Gather with fellow Gophers for an evening of Talks and discussion around Golang! All experience levels welcome!

Schedule:

Hang out and chat with other Gophers until about 6:30

Talk: Go without the operating system by Bernerd Schaefer

Go lets you to compile your program into stand-alone binaries which can be safely shared across systems without worrying about a missing dependency. But there's one thing even a stand-alone executable depends on: the operating system. What if you could remove that dependency, too?

AtmanOS is a project built to explore that question. It allows you to compile ordinary Go programs and run them on cloud providers like Amazon's EC2, without a traditional operating system.

Please RSVP on the meetup page so we know what to set up!

Continue discussion over beers at Baileys!

Thanks to Esri R&D for hosting us once again!