August 2018 event

[killercup]

ToDo

• Settle for a date and location: Wednesday 2018-08-01, 19:15 CET at C4 (default: first Wednesday each month)
• Send "Save the Date" info (with link to this ticket)
• Basic Agenda (default: Open Space)
• Final invitation (deadline 2018-07-16)
  • meetup
  • website
  • twitter
  • community calendar
  • reddit
  • rust-lang forum

Location

• Default: C4
• asked ThoughtWorks -> will go there next month (cf. September 2018 Event #60)
• @uwearzt wanted to see if his office was available

Invitation draft

(default)

Title: Save The Date

Dear Rustaceans,

our next **open space** style Meetup will be on **Wednesday 2018-08-01, 19:15 CET**.

Imagine a bazaar, where you can suggest topics and spontaneously join any discussion you find interesting. It all depends on your interests. You can enjoy some drinks, meet nice people and discuss about Rust.

**[You can register here](https://www.meetup.com/RustCologne/events/vnwndpyxlbcb/)**.

We are looking forward to seeing you. :-)

Yours,
Pascal and Florian
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The meetup will likely be held in German, we will however reevaluate this at the beginning of the evening and may switch to English if needed.

Rust News

• Rust 1.27.1: match borrowck fix + rustdoc security fix
• Rust 1.27.2: match borrowck bugfix for a bug introduced with the 1.27.1 bugfix
• clippy as rustup component
• State of Rust
• Rust 2018 Preview
• cargo fix upstream

Agenda

• possible talks
  • @mre wanted to talk about hyperjson in July but didn't get around to it

[killercup]

@Florob are we good to go with next Wednesday at the C4?

@mre want to talk about hyperjson or wait until #60?

[Florob]

It's the first Wednesday in the month, so we're good ;)

[mre]

Yup, would talk about hyperjson. 👍 Thanks for the reminder.

[killercup]

Alright, perfect!

@mre do you have an abstract we can put up? Otherwise I'll make one up and I can't promise I won't call it hydrojson!

[mre]

How about this?

During a recent Python Hackathon in Düsseldorf, Matthias somehow managed to sneak in some Rust code while writing a fast, safe Python module for encoding and decoding JSON. It passes (most of) the Python test suite for the json module and was unreasonably pleasant to write. Listen carefully as he tells the story of a little side-project that got out of hand and how Rust can help speed up even the most boring, highly-optimized tasks like parsing file formats in the future.

[FichteFoll]

Sounds interesting, but I don't think I can make it. Will it be recorded?

[mre]

Only @Florob knows. Our faith is in his hands.

[Florob]

@mre I'll record if you let me 😛

[mre]

🌞 yup, let's do this.

[killercup]

Website is a go, will update meetup and announce event there, then post to twitter

Edit: Oh, I think the meetup is already announced? Well then, onwards to twitter.

[killercup]

If anyone wants magic internet points from reddit or the user forums, now is your chance to get them by posting a link to http://rust.cologne/2018/08/01/open-hyperspace.html :)

[mre]

We should start using submit for the announcements.
Thinking about renaming the tool to "hello" for additional amusement.

[mre]

I actually submitted the link with hello (formerly submit):
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/92e4pe/rust_cologne_august_1st_2018_open_hyperspace/
Will take care of the forum now, but manually as hello can not do it (discourse only allows admins to create API tokens 😢)

[mre]

Link to forum: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/rust-cologne-august-1st-2018-open-hyperspace/19144

[mre]

Usage for future reference:

cargo install hello
hello reddit /r/rust "Rust Cologne, August 1st 2018: Open Hyperspace" http://rust.cologne/2018/08/01/open-hyperspace.html

[killercup]

Thanks all for coming!

Also thanks to Neal for that spontaneous talk on sequoia! You can read more about it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/93mng5/ann_sequoia_a_new_openpgp_implementation/

[Florob]

@FichteFoll @mre Recording is available at https://media.ccc.de/v/rustcologne.2018.08.hyperjson

[mre]

This guy is fast. Thanks @Florob!

[killercup]

@mre I you push your slides somewhere I'd link them from the event page :) (or, just make a PR to this repo)

[mre]

Sure! https://speakerdeck.com/mre/hyperjson-the-journey-towards-faster-safer-json-parsing-in-python-using-rust