Ronna Steinberg

If you are a Gopher, the mention of the term Object-Oriented Programming is likely triggering for you because Object Oriented represents everything that Gophers love to hate, from over-complicated design to unpredictable execution. But could Go be in fact OO? Experienced or new to Go, this talk is aimed to help you understand where Go fits within the realm of programming languages. Ronna will take you on a journey through the history of OO and the choices that were made when designing Go so that you can decide for yourself if Go is or isn't OO.

What if we decided to solve, once and for all, the problem of underrepresentation in the Go community of women, gender minorities, people of color, or any other group the same way we handle our problems in production, by identifying "bugs" and then fixing them? Can it even be done? What if we took the engineering approach? Ronna is planning to convince you it's not a matter of if, but a matter of how, and we are going to analyze some of the statistics, find where the problems actually lay, and build a Trello card full of achievable tasks to address them.