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Experiences from GopherCon 2023

The 10th GopherCon took place the last week of September and it was a blast. In this episode, we’re talking about our experiences at the conference from several different viewpoints. Angelica as a conference organizer, Johnny as an emcee and workshop instructor, Kaylyn as a speaker, and Kris as a regular attendee.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) - Welcome to Go Time!
(00:45) - Kaylyn
(06:45) - Organizing
(12:25) - Russ Cox
(18:41) - Captions
(23:36) - Café X: By Any Beans Necessary
(33:05) - Neurospicy meetup
(37:09) - Meetup Organizers Unite!
(38:32) - The RainGo Alliance Meetup
(43:53) - Everywhere all at once
(51:04) - Fangirling over Rebecca Bilbro
(57:18) - Unpopular opinions!
(58:26) - Kaylyn's unpop
(59:24) - Kaylyn's 2nd unpop
(1:00:23) - Angelica's unpop
(1:01:43) - Johnny's unpop
(1:04:54) - Kris' unpop
(1:14:31) - Outro

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