The Rust Community Switchboard Team

Members: Manish , booyaa, badboy

Meetings: 9AM PST on alternate thursdays (alternating with the community team meating, synchronized with the events team meeting)

Focus

Connect the community with the right Rust resources or people, gather feedback from production users, increase Rust presence in other communities

Goals

• Goal: Coordinate with production users in Rust

  • Measureable: Town halls run, companies added to friends list, companies talked with,

  • Timeframe: measure at 1-2y intervals

  • Resources needed: N/A

  • Goal: Engage community to participate in the evolution of rust

  • Measurable: Get more submissions to conferences, meetups

  • Timeframe: N/A

  • Resources needed: N/A

  • Notes: This goal is shared with events and content

Why a switchboard team?

The Rust community is a large place, with lots going on. It is the switchboard team’s task to keep a finger on its pulse and generally know what’s going on, and more importantly who is doing it. We are the single point of contact for people intending to find a portion of the community, or folks who wish to find like-minded collaborators. We also hold town halls with companies using Rust and try to provide any help we can as well as bringing back valuable feedback for the other teams to act on.

Possible actions

• Provide a single place for folks to ask questions about the community (can be community-team@ as it currently is)
• Hold town halls for production users (and other key groups)
• Engage with companies considering Rust
• Provide support to conference speakers for both Rust and non-Rust events

Measurable objectives

• Friends page size
• Production town halls run
• (More generally) companies talked with