| # Introducing the Developer Experience Working Group |
| 10 Apr 2017 |
| Summary: Announcing the Developer eXperience Working Group (DXWG). |
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| The Developer Experience Working Group |
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| 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). |
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| For the next three months, this group will work together on delivering: |
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| - 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 [Go Tour](https://tour.golang.org/) and [Go Playground](https://play.golang.org/) |
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| 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. |
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| 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, Dmitri Shuralyov. |
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| 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 subscribe to the |
| [golang-devexp](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/golang-devexp) |
| mailing list. |
