In-case anyone unfamiliar with fosdem FOSDEM 2017 - Home (open source conference thing at Brussels uni)
I do not recall any rust stuff there in 2016 (apparently there was, https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/43dpc5/rust_bof_at_fosedm16/czhz8to, however as I was not aware of rust then was not 'looking out' for it). As I now exclusively use rust outside of work, it would be fun to have as much rust stuff there next year as possible.
devroom proposals deadline isn't until 9th Sep, but obviously if anything can be organised the earlier the better.
Just wondered if there were already any plans yet. At the very least are there enough people interested in doing/organising anything?
(I still suck at rust, however am willing to put together 'simpler', intro-ish talks or just help out organising in whatever way)
Sadly, my opinion towards FOSDEM has become worse, so I'm hesitant to even do the community handling this year. I still think it's an important event to be present at.
I "organised" the BOF last year (wrote my name on a signup paper). It was pretty successful so I'd be up for doing that even if a devroom wasn't allocated.
I don't know the internal comments about why the devroom wasn't accepted but I think the acceptance rate for devrooms is low and it's easy to discount Rust since some of the most gripping talks will almost certainly be about Servo - which can be done in the Mozilla devroom. As such, maybe it makes sense to see if the Mozilla devroom can be pushed out to two days with at least a half day allocated to Rust and a half day for Rust based projects (e.g. servo, mio, tikv, diesel, leaf retrospective).
Unfortunately, I could not grab a ticket for this year's chaos congress so I will participate at FOSDEM 2017 and hope to meet some fellow rustaceans there.
