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Since its release in 2012, Go’s adoption in France has grown informally through interest groups communicating via meetup.com with minimal resources. While other ecosystems like PHP or Python quickly established representative and/or federating associations, probably because they reached a critical mass threshold confirming the value of organizing.

Reflecting its pragmatic character, the Go world has thrived without an association. Perhaps its growth has suffered slightly because of this. But that hasn’t stopped internet giants and unicorns from leveraging it for their technical transition.

Just as it hasn’t stopped passionate open-source gophers — more precisely gaufres (pocket gophers) — from building connections, sharing knowledge, and code.

While we refine the contours of this association idea (serving developers and/or companies?), the first useful objective would be to identify and make visible the players and resources of the community and strengthen its ties around its own platform.

That’s the idea behind Golang Franca:

• Provide a space for event announcements and resource sharing
• Report on open-source Go news
• Help promote Go as a first language rather than a transition language
• Amplify French-speaking gophers
• List local groups and give them equal visibility

Fred Ménez