Keynote / Natalie Pistunovich

Natalie is a learner, a Gopher, a public speaker and a sailor. She is leading the observability efforts at Fraugster, Berlin, and is the co-founder of GopherCon Iceland. Prior to that she was a Backend Developer at GrayMeta, Los Angeles, a co-founder at Connta, Nairobi, a Backend Developer at adjust, Berlin, and a Silicon Integration Engineer at Intel, Haifa. She graduated with a B.Sc. in Computer and Software Engineering from the Technion in Israel. In her free time Natalie is co-leading the Berlin chapters of GDG Go and Women Techmakers.

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1. The Importance of Beginners Natalie Pistunovich @NataliePis Engineering Manager, Fraugster
2. Good afternoon
3. Good afternoon gopherize.me
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15. Ask stupid Questions
16. Ask Stupid Questions
17. everybody please stand up
21. Look around
22. Look around
23. Go is changing
24. Go is changing
25. There are approx. 1.5 Million active go users
26. The Go community doubled 
 in the Past year
27. New Go users in 2018 TOTAL Go users FROM the last 9 years
28. With growth comes change
29. With growth comes change
30. With growth comes change
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34. Being New
35. How do we think about Beginners?
36. Require training
37. Require mentoring
38. Learning curve
39. Being New is Hard
42. Think about Go
43. new vocabulary
44. Different Communication Culture
45. Feeling Unknown
46. Feeling Unqualified
47. Being New And Different is Harder
48. It’s hard to be from abroad
49. It’s hard to be from outside the US
50. It’s hard to be from abroad
51. It’s hard to be from abroad
52. It’s hard to be from abroad
55. It’s hard to be from A Startup
56. It’s hard to be A Hobbyist
57. It’s hard to be Non CS Educated
58. It’s hard to be A Minority
59. The importance of New
60. why are beginners important?
61. Perspective
62. New users think outside the box, because they don't know the box yet
63. Suggestions for improvement
64. Fresh points of view
65. New Critique to the Go APIs
66. New wave of tools
67. Participation
76. 2019 @gopherconEU
79. Excitement
81. Takeaway
82. With privilege comes responsibility
83. Improve online documentation
84. encourage Asking Stupid Questions
85. ”just use the standard library”
86. Share your work
87. Be a mentor
88. Mix Go with other languages and technologies
89. Go global 
 and go offline
98. Tips to
99. Everyone is a beginner to something
100. when you go home
101. • Improve online documentation • Encourage asking stupid questions • Share your OS projects & slides • Be a mentor
102. • Mix Go with other languages and technologies • Engage in general tech events and smaller conferences • Help out at your local meetups • If you travel, offer a talk at the local meetup • Be future compatible and open for changes
103. Today
104. Q&A Natalie Pistunovich @NataliePis
105. Q&A Natalie Pistunovich @NataliePis
106. Q&A Natalie Pistunovich @NataliePis