Celebrate Release 1.6

What's happening?

To celebrate the release of Go 1.6 we're organizing a world wide release party on February the 17th, 2016.

Official information (http://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Go-1.6-release-party)

Hang on, did you say Go 1.6 ships on the 17th of February?

Nope! Go 1.6 ships when it's ready. With that said, things are looking pretty good for a mid Feb release. Using the power of software estimation, a date was plucked from the aether that happened to coincide with several meetups that were already in the works.

What happens at this release party?

Go 1.6 is the 7th release of the language which has been open source since November 10th, 2009 -- that's 6.5 years since the project was open sourced and nearly 4 years since the 1.0 release. A lot has changed in the language since 1.0, so this is a great opportunity to discuss the improvements landing 1.6.

Afterwards?

Head over to Irvine Spectrum (maybe YardHouse) to socialize / network.