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Rust Nation – A UK Conference for Rustaceans

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It seems interesting but £510 is a lot for 2 days of currently unknown content.

It's sounds pretty standard in it's exorbitance to me.

The tickets that aren't gifted tend to be paid by corporations using up their training budgets, and well-heeled consultant networkers rather than individual coders I suspect.

Sounds about right. I don't really have a training budget and if I did it would still be hard to justify since I don't need to use Rust at work.

Yeah it sucks that people who are using Rust as hobby can't participate in these conferences w/o coughing up big chunk of cash. But hopefully there are recorded streams available for these later.

If you're in the US, £510 might turn out to be pretty cheap by time 2023 rolls around.

Don't hurt me like that :(

> unknown content

Can't you see it will be the best event ever for the same reason that this post is on the front page of HN? It's about Rust.

Not sure what is there intention.

Usually it costs a lot because organizers expect companies to pay their staff to go there and "learn" stuff.

Milking people using rust professionally does not sound profitable.

It's also hard to justify to pay and go somewhere instead of just doing some livestream.

Also absolutely no mention of who is involved in setting this up.

Digging around in OP's submissions, it looks to be Vitis Events [0].

[0]: https://www.vitisevents.com/

Their COVID-19 policy page mentions that this is being run by Vitis Events, https://www.vitisevents.com/.

They're running three events at The Brewery that week: PHP UK, Rust Nation UK, and GopherCon UK.

Are those good conferences?

I have no idea, but it looks like they've been in the event space for a while so I would expect the logistics side, at a minimum, to work well. Running several events concurrently also lets them benefit from shared infrastructure and expertise instead of being a purely one-off thing. I'd probably consider it once the speakers are announced.

Are those good conferences?

I don't know, but the PHP UK conference videos for 2016 to 2022 are on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/c/phpukconference/playlists

Gopher UK conference videos (2015 to 2022):

https://www.youtube.com/c/GopherConUK/playlists

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