November Gophers @ Monzo!
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Hello London Gophers! 👋
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==== 📓 Agenda📓 =====
6:30 - 7:00pm: Arrival, Food & Refreshments
7:00pm: Talks Start
🗣️ Haseeb Majid - Consistent Development Enviroments with Nix
Nix is a powerful package manager, that seemingly gained a lot of attention last year. In this talk, Haseeb will explain:
- what Nix is,
- how it works at a high level
- what Nix flakes are
- how to create a Nix dev shell for a Go project
- how it compares to Docker dev containers
🗣️ Daniel Martí - What's coming in Go 1.24
An overview of the upcoming changes in Go 1.24.
~8:30 - 9:00pm: Closing and Head to the Pub
==== 💡 Priority Queue 💡 =====
We now reserve 20% of the attendee spots at our events for those who are underrepresented in tech.
If they join the waitlist and there is a reserved spot open they will be bumped into going!
These spots are reserved until the last Sunday before the event.
How do we define underrepresented? We use public surveys done by the tech community such as the ones linked below.
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-demographics
https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2022/#gender-and-development
==== 📢 Become a Speaker! 📢 =====
Have something to say? We want to listen! We are always looking for new speakers who want to share their adventures with Go and have mentors who can help.
You can sign up to be a speaker here: https://gophers.london/apply
==== 🎉 Prizes! 🎉 =====
JetBrains Raffle! - We have 3 free JetBrains Product licenses to giveaway to some of our lucky attendees.
==== 📝 Update Your RSVPS! 📝 =====
We monitor attendance and keep track of no-shows. Please if you can no longer make it to the event update your RSVP!
==== 🧳Looking For a New Adventure? 🧳 =====
On the Gophers Slack (https://gophers.slack.com) there is a #london-jobs channel where company and recruiters can post job opportunities.
==== 📞 How To Reach Us 📞 =====
Email: contact@gophers.london
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/london-gophers/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LondonGophers
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November Gophers @ Monzo!