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+Introducing the Developer Experience Working Group
+6 Apr 2017
+
+The Developer Experience Working Group
+
+* Introducing the Developer Experience Working Group
+
+Over the last several years, Go's audience has shifted from early
+adopters to mainstream users. Today, our users come from a wide
+variety of backgrounds, experiences, and expectations. The needs
+of users are growing faster than the Go project can currently address
+them. To streamline the experience for first-time Go users,
+we've created the Developer eXperience Working Group (DXWG).
+
+For the next three months, this group will work together on delivering:
+
+- improvements to the Go installation experience
+- better guidelines to help new users
+- guides on tooling and developer environments (editors and IDEs)
+- running user studies to systematically analyze and measure friction points
+- improvements to the [[https://tour.golang.org/][Go Tour]] and [[https://play.golang.org/][Go Playground]]
+
+A secondary goal of the working group is to better understand how to
+involve the Go community in charting Go’s future. We hope that working
+groups – Go team members working alongside community members – will
+help Go scale its leadership and address user needs. We’ll learn
+from this experience and iterate.
+
+The initial members of the working group are:
+Carmen Andoh, Chris Broadfoot, Francesc Campoy, Jaana Burcu Dogan,
+Steve Francia, Jess Frazelle, Bill Kennedy, Katrina Owen, Natalie
+Pistunovich, Mat Ryer, Dmitry Shuralyov.
+
+We are looking for additional people to help with contributing
+code, writing documentation, sharing feedback and experiences
+(user stories), reviewing contributions, and more. If you are
+interested in any of our current areas of focus, please join
+us on the [[https://gophers.slack.com/archives/devexp][#devexp]] channel on the
+[[https://invite.slack.golangbridge.org/][Gophers Slack]] and subscribe to the
+[[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/golang-devexp][golang-devexp]]
+mailing list.
