Name: July Gophers @ Loveholidays
Start: 2025-07-16T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-07-16T21:00:00+01:00
Location: LoveHolidays

Hello Gophers! 👋

How about meeting some new and familar Gophers this summer at Loveholidays, our lovely hosts for this month's event.

==== 📓 **AGENDA** 📓 =====

**6:30 - 7:00pm:** Arrival, Food & Refreshments
**7:00pm:** Talks Start

🗣 **George Kampanos - Web Servers aren't the only thing that you can build with Go**
A talk about how you can use Go to build more than just Web Servers and APIs. Specifically, we will focus on how you can use Go to build "one-time" scripts, CLIs, TUIs and if it's worth it.

**Break**

🗣 **Lyle Dean - Creating Your Own Go Static Analysis Tools**
In this talk I will demonstrate how to build a custom static analysis tool in Go, using our experience creating [https://github.com/loveholidays/ptrcmp](https://github.com/loveholidays/ptrcmp) at loveholidays as a practical case study. We'll take a deep dive into Go's analysis framework [https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools/go/analysis](https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools/go/analysis), exploring everything from understanding Abstract Syntax Trees to leveraging the powerful tooling ecosystem that makes custom linters possible.

**\~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 reversed 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://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-demographics)
[https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2022/#gender-and-development](https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2022/#gender-and-development)

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**JetBrains Raffle!** \- We have 3 free JetBrains Product licenses to giveaway to some of our lucky attendees\.

**Ardan Labs Ultimate Go Course!** \- A full comprehensive Go Course\. Featuring Bill Kennedy\!

**100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid them -** We've got 5 copies of the ebook from Manning Publication

**FREE ticket to GopherCon UK -** the biggest Go conference in the UK

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==== 📝 **UPDATE YOUR RSVPS!** 📝 =====
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