Go 1.8 Release Party

Welcome

To celebrate the release of Go 1.8 we're to organising a world wide release party. Come join us and see what the future holds!

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Go-1.8-Release-Party

Agenda:

• 5:30pm - 6:00pm - Meet and Greet

• 6:00pm - 6:10pm - Announcements

• 6:10pm - 6:25pm - Building a data platform at TV4 (Ivar Gaitan)

• 6:30pm - 6:50pm - Actor model and proto.actor (Roger Johansson)

• 6:50pm - 7:10pm - Break

• 7:10pm - 7:25pm - Go 1.8 (Marcus Olsson)

• 7:25pm - 7:40pm - HTTP Server Graceful Shutdown (Carl Bergquist)

• 7:40pm - 7:55pm - HTTP/2 Push (Mikael Saltzman)

• 7:55pm - 8:10pm - Plugins (Emil Stenqvist & Alexandre Pesant)

• 8:10pm - 8:40pm - Networking

The agenda might change as we get closer to the event.

Talks:

We will dive into the new features of Go 1.8. Here's a writeup on what to expect:

https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2016/go-1.8

If you're interested in giving a talk on any of the new features, contact us and we'll make it happen!

Additional resources:

Slack Channel for Gophers - gophers.slack.com
To get added, fill out the invite form here:

https://gophersinvite.herokuapp.com/

Join the local channel: https://gophers.slack.com/messages/stockholm/