| # The Gopher Gala is the first worldwide Go hackathon | |
| 7 Jan 2015 | |
| Summary: The Gopher Gala, the first global Go hackathon, will take place January 23-25, 2015. | |
| Francesc Campoy | |
| campoy@golang.org | |
| ## | |
| The [Gopher Gala](http://gophergala.com/) is the first Go hackathon at a | |
| global scale and will take place from January 23rd through the 25th. The event | |
| is organized by the community, supported by the Go team, and sponsored by | |
| Google among others. | |
| .image gophergala/fancygopher.jpg _ 300 | |
| _Fancy_Gopher,_by_ [[http://www.reneefrench.com/][_Renée_French_]] | |
| You can read about the rules of the hackathon | |
| [here](http://gophergala.com/rules/), but if you know about | |
| [Rails Rumble](http://railsrumble.com/) or | |
| [Node Knockout](http://nodeknockout.com/) you already have a pretty good idea | |
| of what to expect. | |
| During this event gophers from all around the globe will form teams to build | |
| great applications using Go as the main tool. Afterwards, all the participants | |
| will vote for their favorite applications and the 20 highest voted applications | |
| will be ranked by a jury of renowned names from the community, including some | |
| members of the Go core team. More information on the judging phase can be found | |
| [here](http://gophergala.com/judging/). | |
| And in case you needed one more reason to | |
| [get involved](https://gophers.typeform.com/to/wondM5) there will be prizes! | |
| "What prizes?" you ask. Well, that’s a | |
| [secret](http://gophergala.com/prizes/) until January 10th but we’re pretty | |
| sure you won’t be disappointed. |