The Go 2 blog post (https://blog.golang.org/toward-go2) asks for core language and library feature help and especially for experience reports: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/ExperienceReports
The issue tracker has almost 200 open Go 2 proposals taking community comments: https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3AGo2 There are a number of non-Google community members participating in these feature discussions I think. A possible start would be to add to the generics discussion (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15292) which seems to be close to the core of Go 2 and has been talked about for almost a decade. People ask for code reviews on golang-nuts, and there are usage questions often here. I’d continue my commercially-aimed game development effort if somebody sponsored me for $60k a year or more, otherwise I’m in a money hole and have to go get a regular job. Go and the web is where my initial technology research landed me a few years ago. My opinion is don’t do that kind of thing by yourself unless you have a house and ten years of money saved up with health insurance. I’ve been donating time to the Go community while searching for the job. Matt On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 1:05:28 PM UTC-6, Kevin Burke wrote: > > Hi, > I asked about this last year, and thought I would post again, as it's the > holiday season. I started a software consultancy <https://burke.services>last > year, and I made a fair amount of money this year. A lot of my success was > due to the Go programming language/community and I'd like to give back > somehow. > > As far as I understand, the core Go team and the build environments etc. > are sponsored by Google and don't rely on the community for support. > Unlike, say, the Python Software Foundation > <https://www.python.org/psf/donations/>, there's no need or > infrastructure to donate to the core language. > > So I'm trying to figure out the best place/sareas to donate. Is there a > list somewhere? Some ideas: > > - **Donate to new core contributors** - are there any people who would > like to do interesting work on the standard library, or could be > contributing improvements in a new area, but aren't being paid by Google or > their employer and need a sponsor to spend more time on it? > > - **Donate to third party libraries in need of support** - Are there > critical third party libraries that need upgrading or infrastructure > support, or time to build out new features? (Also: if you run a popular > project and would like funding for more time on it, please explain to your > readers the best way to pay you!) > > - **Donate scholarships** - what's the most cost effective way to help > people new to programming, or from a disadvantaged background, get started? > To conferences, meetups or to an organization like Hacker School. > > - **Donate my time** - Can I provide feature work or code reviews for free > to e.g. community, nonprofit or government organizations, writing Go or > otherwise? > > Apologies if this isn't the best place for this question, but I figure the > people who read this email will know the best places to give. > > Thanks! > Kevin > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
