Maybe your time would be better spent contributing to the existing list rather than making a new one? It's very long at this point and categorized very nicely.
Alas, I looked a little closer and it looks like the author used "awesome" because it followed in the footsteps of "awesome-python" which itself followed "awesome-php".
Therefore, the author's usage of "awesome" is simply a homage and not an adjective of significant semantics. (Unless the word "awesome" is constrained to mean "the libraries exist" which is amazing because Golang is only 4 years old. Imo, this is too low of a bar to signify as "awesome.")
For example the database drivers section [1]: 3 out of 5 projects are abandoned, while current projects (listed in the official Go community wiki [2]) are missing.
1: https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go#database-drivers 2: https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/Projects#Databases_an...
This is an area where quality defeats quantity by a particularly large margin.
The wiki isn't quite as welcoming:
> To edit this page you must be a contributor to the go-wiki project. To get contributor access, send mail to adg@golang.org from your Google Account.
I'm not really a great fan of github, but it's hard to deny that it is one easy way to facilitate and mediate contributions.
Spam sucks.