GoBridge and the Go Community / Initiatives & Opportunities
summary
GoBridge launches as a year‑old volunteer open‑source project under Bridge Foundry, running workshops in San Francisco, Brazil and London, a Go Forum with 2,000+ women users (4.62%), and a busy Gophers Slack (1.5M messages total, 4,000 messages in 24h, ~1,000 active readers). Built items include a code of conduct and reporting flow, a BigMarker remote‑meetup setup with 24‑hour recordings and chapter/teacher training programs; funding comes from sponsors like Compose and 40% of Go Time podcast proceeds return to the community.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:56Bridge Foundry Bridges Programs • RailsBridge
- 5:45Bridge Foundry Long Term Community Goal
- 9:31Gophers Slack (8/18-19)
- 11:00Lead: Bill Kennedy
- 16:55Lead: Cassandra Gil @Cassandraoid
- 24:39Lead: Gunjan Patel @Gunjan_Patel
- 27:37Lead: Edward Muller @freeformz
- 29:23We need people to lead: • Workshop teacher training and content guidance
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