FOSDEM'25 Rust Devroom
Weekend of 1 & 2 February 2025
Brussels, Belgium.
Overview
Welcome to the 5th edition of the Rust devroom, co-located with FOSDEM 2025. FOSDEM is an annual conference about free and open source software, attended by over 5000 developers and open-source enthusiasts from all over the world.
The devroom is a colocated conference-within-a-conference that gives us the opportunity to come together and chat, hack, and share stories about Rust usage in FLOSS ecosystems.
The devroom will take place on the weekend of 1 & 2 February 2025, at ULB (Campus Solbosch), in Brussels, Belgium. Join us to enjoy a full day of talks, demos and interesting discussions on Rust.
Sounds interesting? Submit your talk proposal below and see you in Brussels!
Topics
We welcome any talk proposals about Rust-related projects.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Rust as a modern and evolving language
- New features and language initiatives
- Architecting large projects
- Rust usage across FOSS user space projects (Tor, VLC, Gnome, Firefox, etc.)
- Rust usage in FOSS (Linux[2], Redox[3], Android, etc.)
- Projects written in Rust (show and tell)
- Tooling
- Build tools (cargo, clippy, rustfmt, etc)
- Packaging libraries and executables written in Rust
- Profiling, FFI, etc.
- Documentation and education initiatives
- Community initiatives
- How to contribute
- RFC process
- Promoting inclusiveness for minority or underrepresented groups
Slots will be allocated for short (20 minutes) and long (40 minutes) talks.
Speakers need to specify their preferred format. Both include time for questions and answers.
Depending on number of submissions and topics, submitters could be asked for a different format instead.
Submission
We invite authors to submit original, high-quality work with sufficient background material to be clear to the Rust community.
Please be aware of the fact that Devroom talks at FOSDEM will be recorded. By submitting a proposal you agree to being recorded and to have your talk made available.
Submissions must include:
- The title of your talk
- A short abstract of one paragraph
- A longer description (optional)
- In the submission notes:
- The talk duration
- Expected prior knowledge / intended audience
- Links to code / slides / material for the talk (optional)
- Speaker bio including
- Links to previous talks by the speaker (optional)
When submitting your talk in pretalx, make sure to select the ‘Rust’ as the ‘Track’.
Dates
Call for papers closes: 1 December 2024
Devroom schedule available: 15 December 2024
Devroom day: 1 February 2025 (Saturday, full day)