We are very excited to announce a new platform for holding remote meetups and workshops. This platform will allow those who don’t have the opportunity to belong to or start a physical meetup be a part of a community or grow their own. It also gives those who want to share their knowledge and experience with others a way to reach more people.

This is much more than just viewing a live event. The attendees and speaker will have an experience of being together with real interactions. The platform we are using for this is BigMarker and I encourage you to test drive the tool as an admin.

GoBridge is continually looking for ways to help promote education in the Go community, especially for underrepresented groups. This is our passion and for the past year we have been helping to create local meetups, hold local workshops, and mentor individuals. We are excited about anything we can do to help grow Go adoption and best practices through education and mentoring. The idea of holding remote meetups reflects our goals and wishes for the community.

The idea is we want more people to start more meetups. You should not be restricted to just your locality on planet Earth. Think of BigMarker as your new physical location. The place where Gophers come together and interact at your meetup. This gives you the opportunity to organize a meetup and choose the topics and speakers you are most interested in hearing from. The best part, anyone from around the world can be there.

GoBridge is holding a remote meetup group and we currently have the following people scheduled to give these talks:

Carlisia Campos

GoBridge Teacher and TA Training

Sunday, May 15, 2016 · 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM · Pacific Time

https://www.bigmarker.com/remote-meetup-go/GoBridge-Teacher-and-TA-training

Vinicius Feitosa Pacheco

My First App with Go

Sunday, May 29, 2016 · 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM · Pacific Time

https://www.bigmarker.com/remote-meetup-go/Tutorial-My-First-App-with-Go

Todd McLeod

Reading Go Documentation and Web Development with Go

Thursday, June 9, 2016 · 09:00 PM · Central Time

https://www.bigmarker.com/remote-meetup-go/Reading-Go-Documentation-and-Web-Development-with-Go

Hopefully now you’re excited to hold a meetup or workshop, so how do you get started? Reach out to us and tell us what you want to do. We have helped more than several people start local meetups in the past. Once you get organized we can help you with the next steps, contact us at:

support@golangbridge.org

If you are interested in attending events, go to the BigMarker web page which is located at remotemeetup.golangbridge.org. Create an account and RSVP to the events you want to attend. We are currently lining up some amazing personalities from the Go community to give talks and as long as you stay subscribed to our channel you will be notified of new remote events. So get going!

Thanks to Compose.io, we have a Plus account that allows for up to 100 attendees to participate in any Go remote meetup or workshop. Compose offers hosted, production-ready databases — including MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, PosgreSQL, RethinkDB, RabbitMQ and etcd — that can be deployed in minutes to support your team’s application development. Customers also have the option to deploy to their own AWS VPC servers.

We can’t thank Compose.io enough for the generosity in sponsoring this platform. Please show them love on social media.

This initiative is also a partnership between GoBridge and Remote Meetup (http://remotemeetup.com) to bring great Go content to a greater number and variety of people, and in the process help improve the developer community.

We hope you are as excited as we are about this new remote meetup platform. We already have some awesome people getting scheduled to offer talks. But with your help, we can schedule even more talks and build a worldwide community of remote meetups that anyone can attend. The platform is in place. Now it is up to you to step up and start that meetup you always wanted.