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Comment by nivenkos | Hacker News Reader

Bit of a shame there's no Rust dev room.

The organizers of the previous RUST devroom (2018, 2019, 2020) decided that we won't be organizing it this year as a huge part of FOSDEM is getting people in the same room and being able to create face to face discussions on the back of the

We announced it here a while ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/j03i80/fosdem_2021_on...

We were encouraging others to fill the gap if they wanted but no one really stepped up so... ;) I hope that next year we'll be back in person.

Rooms are organized by volunteers of the communities. Typically there was a shortage of physical rooms which doesn't exist that much inna virtual event (still they wouldn't take everything I assume and haven't counted if/how much they grew)

If the is no Rust room, it seems that nobody from the Rust community saw need to hold these kinds of gatherings. So maybe an item for your to-do list to push for next year. (And as others have said in this thread: previously it was part of Mozilla and given Mozilla's change of priorities recently, I assume they stepped back)

Getting people to stop talking about Rust is the big challenge. No need to facilitate it.

A rust room was actually the first thing I was looking for. But I can understand that not everyone shares our enthusiasm, because there are also a lot of other cool things to talk about.

Rust talks always happened in the Mozilla dev room historically.

I was also looking for that.

Go, Kotlin, Zig, Python, JavaScript have devrooms.

It seems there is one Rust talk in the Mozilla room. But this is way less than for the other languages.

I wonder why Rust is somewhat underrepresented at FOSDEM. Or maybe my view is totally biased from reading too much HN...

Despite, now that Mozilla does not maintain Rust anymore, I think this really should get a separate devroom.

Edit: Downvote? Why? What is controversial about what I said? Really curious. That Rust should get a separate devroom? Not relevant enough? But this is even what I considered in the sentence before.

Or are there more Rust talks and I didn't found them? Actually, there seem to be some more, but still less than for other languages: https://fosdem.org/2021/search/?q=rust

Rust had a dedicated dev room last year: https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/track/rust/

Rust had a room the last few years. I don’t know if anyone actually applied for one this year. It’s a weird time for conferences.

In normal times, giving a talk at a conference is a good excuse to go to a conference you want to attend--and many orgs won't generally let folks attend an event if they're not doing something specific there. In the current circumstances, a lot of people are a lot less inclined to put the effort to create one more video among the doubtless thousands of videos being created for conferences. I know I'm still doing some but definitely doing fewer submittals than I would normally.

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