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     1  Introducing the Developer Experience Working Group
     2  10 Apr 2017
     3  
     4  The Developer Experience Working Group
     5  
     6  * Introducing the Developer Experience Working Group
     7  
     8  Over the last several years, Go's audience has shifted from early
     9  adopters to mainstream users. Today, our users come from a wide
    10  variety of backgrounds, experiences, and expectations. The needs
    11  of users are growing faster than the Go project can currently address
    12  them. To streamline the experience for first-time Go users,
    13  we've created the Developer eXperience Working Group (DXWG).
    14  
    15  For the next three months, this group will work together on delivering:
    16  
    17  - improvements to the Go installation experience
    18  - better guidelines to help new users
    19  - guides on tooling and developer environments (editors and IDEs)
    20  - running user studies to systematically analyze and measure friction points
    21  - improvements to the [[https://tour.golang.org/][Go Tour]] and [[https://play.golang.org/][Go Playground]]
    22  
    23  A secondary goal of the working group is to better understand how to
    24  involve the Go community in charting Go’s future. We hope that working
    25  groups – Go team members working alongside community members – will
    26  help Go scale its leadership and address user needs.  We’ll learn
    27  from this experience and iterate.
    28  
    29  The initial members of the working group are:
    30  Carmen Andoh, Chris Broadfoot, Francesc Campoy, Jaana Burcu Dogan,
    31  Steve Francia, Jess Frazelle, Bill Kennedy, Katrina Owen, Natalie
    32  Pistunovich, Mat Ryer, Dmitri Shuralyov.
    33  
    34  We are looking for additional people to help with contributing
    35  code, writing documentation, sharing feedback and experiences
    36  (user stories), reviewing contributions, and more. If you are
    37  interested in any of our current areas of focus, please subscribe to the
    38  [[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/golang-devexp][golang-devexp]]
    39  mailing list.