| # Community Outreach Working Group |
| 5 Sep 2017 |
| Tags: community |
| Summary: Announcing the Go Community Outreach Working Group (CWG). |
| OldURL: /community-outreach-working-group |
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| Steve Francia & Cassandra Salisbury |
| spf@golang.org |
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| ## Announcing the Go Community Outreach Working Group |
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| The Go project has grown considerably with over half a million users and |
| community members all over the world. To date all community oriented activities |
| have been organized by the community with minimal involvement from the Go |
| project. We greatly appreciate these efforts. |
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| After talking to many community organizers we have heard consistent |
| feedback that they would like better collaboration between organizers and |
| the Go project. We are forming the Community outreach Working Group (CWG) |
| to help support these community efforts. |
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| ## The CWG Mission |
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| The mission of the CWG is to act as a conduit between the broader Go |
| community, it’s organizers and the Go project. The CWG will help provide |
| the structures and community management necessary to create an online and |
| in person community that is enjoyable and rewarding to participate in. The |
| CWG leadership represents the Go project in these efforts. |
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| **The CWG is responsible for:** |
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| - Defining programs to facilitate deeper collaboration across the community. |
| - Facilitating the coordination of Go events |
| - Establishing growth and expansion plans for the community |
| - Project exposure and accessibility |
| - Ecosystem Development |
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| **Leadership:** |
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| - [Ashley McNamara](https://twitter.com/ashleymcnamara) |
| - [Cassandra Salisbury](https://twitter.com/Cassandraoid) |
| - [Francesc Campoy](https://twitter.com/francesc) |
| - [Steve Francia](https://twitter.com/spf13) |
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| ## Plans for Action |
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| The CWG has an [open GitHub repo](https://github.com/golang/cwg) we’ve created for complete transparency |
| of our efforts. We have various [GitHub projects](https://github.com/golang/cwg/projects) which are acting as our |
| primary initiatives. Each project has a variety of [issues](https://github.com/golang/cwg/issues) tied to them |
| with assignees from our Leadership team and [our members](https://github.com/golang/cwg/issues/15). |
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| .image cwg/project.png |
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| If you’d like to get involved, we encourage you to comment on the issue |
| that interests you or [submit an issue](https://github.com/golang/cwg/issues/new) yourself! |
