Update: Two months after making this post, it’s already out of date, 2015 will feature ten Go conferences.

Last month, during my concluding remarks at Gophercon India, I threw out a statistic:

In 2014 there were five international Go conferences. In 2015 there will be seven.

Barely a month on from this statement I must issue a correction; so far in 2015 there will not be seven Go conferences, but nine ten!. At the rate new Go conferences are appearing this year I fully expect to be publishing yet another correction next month .

Let’s recap:

FOSDEM kicked things off in January with the Go dev room track.

Gophercon India sold out 350 seats in February for their first two day conference.

Mainland China will host their first Go conference with GopherChina in April.

The Google I/O 2015 site is light on details at the moment, but is expected to continue the tradition of holding Go code labs and dev sessions.

The enigmatic Gocon conference in Japan is expected to make a return this year. update GoCon Summer will be held 21 June 2015

GoCon Summer will be held 21 June 2015 Gophercon in Denver, CO last year hosted a sell out crowd of 750 gophers, and this year we’re looking to surpass that record, a lot.

GolangUK burst onto the scene a week ago promising a conference for the rapidly growing Go community in the UK.

new Inkaconf, Latin America’s first Go conference will run for two days, September 24-25, 2015.

Inkaconf, Latin America’s first Go conference will run for two days, September 24-25, 2015. GothamGo returns on October 2nd. update the call for papers is open now.

the call for papers is open now. Last, but by no means least, dotGo will be back again in November with a larger venue.

And not forgetting the contributions of more than one hundred and thirty local user groups and meetups.

To be able to write a post like this about a language which has only been in the public eye for little over five years is simply unbelievable. With singular exception of Google I/O, every one of these conferences, and every meetup, has spawned from the Go community itself.

Without a doubt, 2015 is going to be the year of Go.