Go for Pythonistas

On May 13, Francesc Campoy, developer advocate for the Go team and the Google Cloud Platform, will present how Go is very similar to Python and how it also differs in some essential points. The talk will discuss how inheritance, duck typing, monkey patching, decorators, etc in a statically typed language.

We will also have time for several lightning talks. If you are interested in delivering a lightning talk, please sign-up here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LtV839ktupRboMUSXlXqoJ9lLFvpe-TZtLCf2q6jUpY/viewform).

Speaker Bio:

Francesc Campoy Flores is a Developer Advocate for Go and the Cloud at Google. He joined the Go team in 2012 and since then he has written some considerable didactic resources and traveled the world attending conferences, organizing live courses, and meeting fellow gophers. He joined Google in 2011 as a backend software engineer working mostly in C++ and Python, but it was with Go that he rediscovered how fun programming can be.

You can find him on twitter as @francesc.

Agenda:

6:15p - Check-in and mingle, with Pizza and Beer provided by our generous sponsor Yelp!

7:05p - Welcome

7:10p - Lightning Talks and Announcements while lightning speakers set up

7:35p - Main Talk and Q&A

8:30p - More mingling

9:30p - Doors close

Lightning talks:

Lynn Root - RAMLfications: Yet Another RAML parser

Yann Kaiser - Clize: A Python approach to command-line argument parsing

Mik Kocikowski - Moving a REST api from Bottle to Go

Announcements:

Code for America describes Civic Hack Night and National Day of Civic Hacking

Please take note of the important check-in details at Yelp

1. Doors open at 6:15pm to allow enough time for the check-in process. Before 6:15pm, please wait outside without blocking the building entrance. Wait list will be admitted beginning at 6:45pm. Doors close at 7:30pm.

2. Please update the name on your account to reflect your FIRST NAME and LAST NAME. Yelp security will be checking IDs downstairs. If your name on Meetup.com is not the name on your ID, then please enter your full name here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1d_oPoxjcAQzOJqozHIzVuFNnOYi7CDrzouywq4U9SUo/edit).

3. Since alcohol will be served at the event, we ask that any underage attendees RSVP directly to the meet up host.

4. Waiting list folks will be allowed into the event AFTER we admit all confirmed attendees.

Yelp is generously providing food, drinks, and beer in addition to their venue space.