September 2017

[killercup]

Talks talks talks

We are looking for (you guessed it) talks!

If you'd like to give a lightning talk at this meetup, just write a comment!

Talks we have so far:

• @mre: RFC 2052: Evolving Rust through Checkpoints
• @badboy: RFC 2116: fallible collection allocation 1.0

Other people who've expressed interesting in giving a talk:

• @killercup RFC 1946: Intra Rustdoc Links
• @colin-kiegel RFC 2126: Clarify and streamline paths and visibility
• @Florob RFC 1228: Placement left arrow

ToDo

• Settle for a date: Wed, 2017-09-06, 19:15 CEST
• Send "Save the Date" info (with link to this ticket)
• Basic Agenda
• Final invitation (deadline ???)
  • meetup
  • website
  • twitter
  • community calendar
  • reddit
  • rust-lang forum

Invitation draft

Title: CGN: ???

Fellow Rustaceans,
 
our next meetup is set for ???.
 
???

**[You can register here](https://www.meetup.com/RustCologne/events/mtcmwmywmbjb/)**.

See you soon!
 
Yours,
Jan-Erik, Pascal, Florian and Colin
―  
The meetup will likely be held in German, we will however reevaluate this at the
beginning of the evening and may switch to English if needed.

Rust News

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• Rust confs tickets and stuff
• builtin Copy types now implement Clone

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• Rust 1.20
  • associated consts
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  • unions
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  • eprintln!()
• stack probes on x86
• top 100 crates available on the playground
• crates.io renders readmes

[killercup]

At the August meetup (#35) we discussed the idea of having a round of "RFC lightning talks", where a bunch of people present their favorite/exiting RFCs in 5 minutes each.

If we want to do that, I'd say we need at least 3 talks by the beginning of the last week in August. This is also most likely not a question of find stuff to talk about together (we could probably even reduce the scope to "already merged but not yet implemented RFCs" and still have no trouble of finding topics for 10 talks) but of finding speakers and tie them down for a talk.

[badboy]

Date would 6.9., which works for me

[badboy]

Should we get started with this, e.g. sending out the save the date, etc?

[killercup]

Sure. Do we want to go ahead with the RFC plan, @colin-kiegel, @Florob? Maybe we can even send out an extra-early invite :)

[Florob]

I'm fine with sending out an early invite for the "RFC plan". I guess even if no-one else has something to present we should find 3 talks among the four of us.

[badboy]

Yup, I'd be fine with it as well and I would happily prepare something to start of

[killercup]

Let's just write some new RFCs and present those! Kidding aside, I'd be happy to present a RFC as well. Is the format okay? 5min lightning talks? Jan-Erik Rediger <notifications@github.com> schrieb am Fr. 11. Aug. 2017 um 10:35:

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Yup, I'd be fine with it as well and I would happily prepare something to start of — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#37 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AABOX7YEjJdCOW2DtulT_C54kEjpmINsks5sXBJXgaJpZM4Orv56> .

[colin-kiegel]

Hey, I like the idea.

If we have three 5-minute talks plus discussion, the official part might be over after one hour. Should we do one round of open-space afterwards, or just leave it to spontaneous activities?

early-invitation: IMO an announcement via the mailing list is much more visible than just "publishing" the event. Usually we just publish the event to send our save-the-date reminder, but this is only good for headlines. If we want to send more text (like "please tell us if you want to give a talk ..."), we should do this in a regular mail before/after publishing the event. Does that make sense to you? :-)

[colin-kiegel]

Oh and by the way in July someone told me, that it's difficult for him to attend on Wednesdays due to a hobby (singing in a choir every wednesday). I still believe that we should do irregular exceptions to our first-wednesday-each-month rhythm to attract different people once in a while.

So, what about Tuesday 05.09. instead?
@Florob: Most important question is, on which evenings is the C4 available?

[killercup]

If we have three 5-minute talks plus discussion, the official part might be over after one hour.

that's why I wrote

we need at least 3 talks

:)

I think we should aim for 3 to 5 talks and 5min talk + 5min discussion (with hard cuts if necessary).

So, what about Tuesday 05.09. instead?

Everything but Friday works that week for me. (That way I might even be able to go to the Elixir meetup on the 6th to infiltrate their ranks to copy all their good ideas for make benefit glorious meetup of Rust Cologne!)

[badboy]

The alternative date would work even better for me.

[Florob]

The C4 is taken on Tuesdays. We could probably do Monday the 4th if that works for people.

Personally I'd plan a bit more than 5 minutes for discussion, but we can probably vary that depending on the number of RFCs we actually have.

[colin-kiegel]

I don't know yet if I can attend on Monday. But if it works for everyone else that would be ok for me.

[killercup]

So Monday or Wednesday? Both work for me.

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Personally I'd plan a bit more than 5 minutes for discussion

Yep, I'd aim for 5+5 to keep things moving, but not cut off discussions.

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Invite text proposal (feel free to change; get the markdown source be editing my comment; I went with the default Wednesday date for now):

Fellow Rustaceans,

Our next meetup is set for Wednesday, September 6th, 2017.

This time, we want to talk not about the Rust we currently know and love, but about the Rust we want to have next year! And how do we know what will happen in Rust over the next year? (Aside from wild speculation, stainless steel crystal balls, and actual time travel that is.) All significant changes to Rust—the compiler, the language, and the ecosystem—are publicly proposed and discussed in form of RFCs (request for comments). You can find the currently open, as well as all accepted and rejected RFCs in the rust-lang/rfcs repository.

And boy are there tons of RFCs! So we'd like to try a slightly new format: We invite you to give lightning talks about specific RFCs. Which ones? You decide. The only requirement is that you need to have fun talking about it! We'll try to have 3 to 5 talks, each one up to 5 minutes longs plus 5 additional minutes for discussion.

If that sounds like something you'd like to do: Awesome! Just comment on the Github issue for this meetup, on meetup.com (or contact us some other way) and let us know what you'd like to talk about! :)

You can register here.

See you soon!

Yours,
Jan-Erik, Pascal, Florian and Colin
―
The meetup will likely be held in German, we will however reevaluate this at the
beginning of the evening and may switch to English if needed.

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Totally OT: I just saw https://twitter.com/bpdp/status/895419283307495425 and I want to have an infographic like that for us as well because it's so pretty but I have no idea why we'd need it 😄