| # The Go Collective on Stack Overflow |
| 23 Jun 2021 |
| Tags: community |
| Summary: Announcing the Go Collective, a new experience for Go on Stack Overflow. |
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| Steve Francia |
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| Since the earliest days of Go, |
| Stack Overflow has been a significant part of the Go user experience. |
| For the past five years, the [Go user survey](https://blog.golang.org/survey2020-results) |
| has consistently identified Stack Overflow as |
| the #1 place users go to find answers to their Go questions. |
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| We are excited to share [the Go Collective](https://stackoverflow.com/collectives/go), |
| the very first open source project in Collectives™ on Stack Overflow, |
| which came as a result of a partnership between Go & Stack Overflow. |
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| <img src="stackoverflow/stackoverflow.png" alt="Go Collective on Stack Overflow web page" width="700" height="547"/> |
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| Stack Overflow’s mission for the community is to help make the most out |
| of Stack Overflow as a tool for knowledge reusability. |
| For the millions of users in the Go community, |
| the [Go Collective](https://stackoverflow.com/collectives/go) |
| will be an improved Stack Overflow experience. |
| It will retain the great question and answer experience |
| we’ve all come to appreciate from Stack Overflow. |
| But it will also provide a home for gophers and |
| an opportunity for Go community leaders to have a voice and help establish best practices. |
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| The benefits of the Go Collective will be: |
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| - **Find trusted answers faster**: |
| we understand developers often have to test multiple solutions to a problem before finding the right one. |
| With the Go Collective, you’ll now see answers that are recommended by the Go team |
| or provided by Recognized Members, meaning Go team members, |
| Go Google Developer Experts, and Stack Overflow users who have been recognized |
| by Stack Overflow as subject matter experts on Go ecosystem technologies. |
| These users will have a badge identifying them as Recognized Members |
| when they post or edit a question, provide an answer, or write an article. |
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| - **Get product information all in one place**: |
| the Go Collectives page on Stack Overflow centralizes all of the questions and answers |
| and content associated with Go and related tags. |
| There will be links from the collective to critical Go websites, |
| and Go websites will direct viewers to the Go Collective on Stack Overflow. |
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| - **Explore new content formats**: |
| stay up-to-date on our technologies and find more in-depth product information |
| with articles, long-form content like how-to guides and announcements |
| that can be found on the Go Collective page. |
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| - **Earn recognition**: |
| Collectives on Stack Overflow also gives us a way |
| to recognize you for your contributions to the community. |
| There’s a leaderboard you can access via the Go Collective |
| (see [the “Members” tab](https://stackoverflow.com/collectives/go?tab=members)) |
| that will help identify trusted contributors designated as Recognized Members. |
| If you are interested in becoming a Recognized Member, |
| please email stackoverflow@golang.org. |
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| Today Google Cloud is launching their own collective alongside the Go Collective. |
| We are excited to take this step together: |
| Go is the best language for building cloud infrastructure and applications, |
| and Google Cloud is the best place to run Go applications. |
| And now Stack Overflow is the best place to find answers to your Go and Cloud questions. |
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| To read more about this see |
| [Stack Overflow's blog post](https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/06/23/collectives-stack-overflow/) |
| and |
| [Google Cloud's blog post](https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/investing-heart-google-cloud-our-developer-and-customer-communities). |
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