Go workshop

Go language FOSS community workshop

Dates

the workshop is spread across 3 meetups each spanning 3 hours (0930 to 1230) hrs

• Sat, August 5, 2017 (Workshop part I - beginner)
• Sat, August 12, 2017 (Workshop part II - intermediate)
• Sat, August 19, 2017 (Workshop part III - intermediate)

Venue

Thanks to Amit Agarwal, Zendrive has graciously agreed to host the meetup

How to prepare

The following steps will streamline planning and help the community members get ready for the workshop

Communication, Co-ordination

• join fosscafe https://meetup.com/fosscafe
• join fosscafe mailing list https://groups.google.com/group/fosscafe

Software

• download and install Go from https://golang.org/dl/
• Windows folks, please install Go in c:\go
• Linux folks, please install go, go-docs, gofmt, godep using your package manager
• FreeBSD folks, please review the ports information at https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/lang/go/

Virtual Environment (optional)

• Folks who would like to use a virtual environment, are encourage to access the Vagrant box.
• Saumik Satpathy has uploaded a comprehensive vagrant box (5 GB) on Google drive, which can be used
• Please download strikr.box from https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8E6oZ9I_L3mTmdEMHNxajBsYXM

Support software (optional)

• folks on Windows may wish to install Cygwin for better shell experience
• Notepad++ is a FOSS editor on windows and is quite handy

Delivery model

• we review concepts and then we write code
• we will maintain the code to be studied in this git repo https://github.com/fosscafe/go-workshop
• beyond the session, we discuss on fosscafe mailing list

Note

• This is a free of charge FOSS community workshop.
• We adhere to an 'inclusive and safe' community code of conduct.