Meetup September 5th

[badboy]

With #5 and the August meetup finished, let's get on to September:

• [x] Send "Save the Date" info
• [x] Final invitation (deadline Aug 29)
  • [x] meetup
  • [x] website
  • [x] twitter
  • [x] community calendar
  • [x] reddit
  • [x] rust-lang forum
  • [x] rustplatz
• [x] Agenda planing

[colin-kiegel]

@Rustaceans/organizers-cologne Great - I just send the main invitation via meetup. Anyone who likes could do some of our other channels and check it in the expanded checklist in this post: https://github.com/Rustaceans/rust-cologne/issues/6#issue-169238248 :-)

[colin-kiegel]

Just did the calendar and forums - reddit/twitter/website are still left.

(mh.. not much happening at rustplatz anymore.. my post was the first since 6days!)

• https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?eid=NGk2ZG80cTNldDlpbWRzcGtrM3VxdTc5bzggYXBkOXZtYmMyMmVnZW5tdHU1bDZjNWpiZmNAZw&ctz=America/Los_Angeles&sf=true&output=xml#eventpage_6
• https://forum.rustplatz.de/t/koeln-10-compiling-rust-to-your-browser-montag-2016-09-05/161
• https://users.rust-lang.org/t/cgn-10-compiling-rust-to-your-browser-monday-2016-09-05/6916

[killercup]

• Voilà: http://rustaceans.cologne/2016/09/05/compile-to-js.html
• Will drop a tweet in a few minutes. Tweet
• Reddit

(Remind me to give the twitter credentials to the other @Rustaceans/organizers-cologne as well!)

[Florob]

Do we want to record talks this time around? In particular @arnecls and @badboy do you have any interest in being recorded? I think it's nice for the german community and not too much overhead to do, but I'll defer to other opinions.

[badboy]

If we have the equipment and you're okay with it, we can do it. I won't have the time to make this my best talk ever, but I'll sure prepare it and so I'm fine with being recorded (if I really fail at it we can still decide not to publish :D)

[badboy]

As we wanted to make this, here's a list of things I'd like to mention at the beginning:

These are all related to current community efforts:

• RustBridge - project to make the Rust Language more accessible to people who are underrepresented in technology. Initial work on workshop material has happened. All help appreciated.
• bors/homu - people want to bring it back being open to the community. They struggle with the setup and maintaining. Help appreciated

[killercup]

@badboy, should we collect these things somewhere semi-permanently? A general "Info" page on the website (i.e., a markdown file in this repo) might be nice, with links to the CoC, thanks the location sponsor(s), and includes generally useful links to community efforts like these.

Also, I don't often stalk Alex on GitHub, but when I do, I find promising repos like https://github.com/alexcrichton/bors2 😄

[killercup]

The only thing left open in the list above is "Agenda planning." Is the plan to have two talks and a hands-on enough of an agenda? Then I think we are good to go here! :)

We might want to add some more "promotion times", though, to remind people of the event. I'll try to write a few more tweets. I was going for mid-day today, some time on the weekend (Sat/Sun evening to get weekend hackers), and mid-day on Monday. I'm open for suggestions for other times, though!

[badboy]

Agenda: ✓

[colin-kiegel]

I am looking forward to it :-)

[killercup]

What's that I heard/read (https://github.com/Rustaceans/rust-cologne/issues/6#issuecomment-240431331) about recording @badboy's talk? Will this actually happen? I assume we want that part of/the meetup to be in English, then?

[killercup]

Some notes.

Stuff to mention at the event

Meta

• Where/how to get drinks, donate to C4
• CoC
• Idea: Open space? (@carlberger)
• Rustfest Rustfest Rustfest
• Kathrine from Honeypot asked via meetup.com if we could link to their developer survey

News

• Rust 1.11
• Truckloads of tokio/futures news (tl;dr wait for more blog posts/things to settle down)
• docs.rs now automagically renders docs for everything on crates.io!
• new wonderful errors (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/35233, https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/08/10/Shape-of-errors-to-come.html)
• news regarding the 2nd edition of The Rust Programming Language: http://words.steveklabnik.com/whats-new-with-the-rust-programming-language
• https://github.com/colin-kiegel/rust-derive-builder
• Cargo: Add support local mirrors of registries https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/2857 (probably still nightly only)

[colin-kiegel]

Thx everyone for preparing this great meetup :-)

We will upload the slides and recordings to our website the next days: http://rustaceans.cologne/2016/09/05/compile-to-js.html

We already collect ideas for our next meetup in #7