Keynote
summary
Go’s community reports 1.5–2 million users and rapid growth—doubling in a year with 20+ conferences and 170 meetups—which surfaces social scaling problems: heated module/package-management disputes, picky core PR acceptance to avoid breaking major users like Kubernetes, and gaps in newcomer onboarding. The claim is that culture matters as much as language design; recommended practices are empathetic collaboration: pause before replying, listen, show gratitude, and standardize kinder communications so contributions and governance scale without alienating newcomers.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:37Why this talk exists
- 4:12Growth and community challenges
- 8:15What kind of community we want
- 11:57Being human in the community
- 17:48First impressions matter
- 23:56Bias and human connection
- 28:21Gratitude and intentionality
- 30:16Q&A on project governance
