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title: "The 2018 Rust Event Lineup"
author: Rust Community
description: "Multitude of Rust event are happening this year; join us at one near you!"
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Every year there are multiple Rust events around the world, bringing together the community.
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i think we could add a few more sentences to this intro. something like "last year we wrote [link to last year] this year we are hoping to write a few posts spotlighting events that we have across the world. here are a few that we know of so far! if you have an event please contact XXX"

depending on if this goes out before or after our goals RFCs for comm team and the larger roadmap post we might allude to how these events help the language achieve goals XYZ


### February 1-3: Mozilla Rust Roadshow Brasil 2018

The [Rust Roadshow][roadshow] is a series of workshops for Rust.
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lets try to get some more info from our friends in Brasil to expand this desc. cc @badboy do you know people from the Latin American Rust Conf planning group that could help?

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Yep, will contact them.

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About the Mozilla Rust Roadshow:

The Mozilla Rust Roadshow Brasil is a series of workshops that will happen throughout the country between February 1st and 4th to broaden the adoption of Rust in Brazil. The project is organized by developers and community leaders, contributing along with Mozilla Brasil community organizers.

Find more about who's leading and contributing to the Mozilla Rust Roadshow Brasil 2018: https://mozillabr.org/2018/01/adding-superheroes-to-the-rust-brazilian-community/

Learn about the workshops and where they are happening: https://rust-br.github.io/2018-roadshow/

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Thanks @anapaulavm!

Learn Rust with the community in several cities across Brazil.

Several workshops are already scheduled for the beginning of February, with hopefully more to come.
Find all information on [the Roadshow website][roadshow].

[roadshow]: https://rust-br.github.io/2018-roadshow/

### February 3-4: FOSDEM - Rust Dev Room

After a very successful Bird of Feathers session for Rust last year at FOSDEM,
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is there a link to explain what "Bird of Feathers" is? might be useful here, i am not sure what that means and other might feel the same

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Will look for a good explanation or change the wording here.

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It's "Birds of a feather" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_a_feather_(computing)

this year will have the first edition of the [Rust Dev Room][fosdem-rust].
Co-located with [FOSDEM 2018][fosdem], the annual conference about free and open source software,
it will bring together the Rust community in **Brussel, Belgium**.
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Nit: I believe it's Brussels in English (I'm prone to making that mistake myself)

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You are right, fixed.


A fully packed Sunday brings you 16 talks covering topics ranging from GUI programming, robotics and multimedia to idiomatic Rust, testing and memory management.
Check out [the full devromm schedule][devroom-schedule].

[fosdem]: https://fosdem.org/2018/
[fosdem-rust]: https://rust-fosdem.github.io/
[devroom-schedule]: https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/rust/

### May XX-YY: RustFest Paris

The fourth iteration of RustFest will happen on May XXth and YYth in **Paris, France**.
Once again there will be a full day of talks and a second day with multiple workshops, allowing you to learn, connect and code together with other Rustaceans.

The CfP and ticket sales will open soon.
Keep an eye on [rustfest.eu], get all updates on the [blog][rustfest-blog] and don’t forget to follow [@rustfest] on Twitter.
Want to get a glimpse into what it's like? Check out last year's videos from [Kyiv] or [Zurich]!

[rustfest.eu]: http://rustfest.eu
[rustfest-blog]: http://blog.rustfest.eu/
[@rustfest]: https://twitter.com/rustfest
[kyiv]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHprJNUCgQ0&list=PL85XCvVPmGQhvs1Rnet_24B-AI3YSM2YG
[zurich]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jywiVWKm1TI&list=PL85XCvVPmGQj9mqbJizw-zi-EhcpS5jTP

### August 16-17: RustConf

[RustConf] is a two-day event held in **Portland, OR, USA** on August 16-17.

The first day will again offer tutorials on Rust given directly by members of the Rust core team, ranging from absolute basics to advanced ownership techniques.
The second day is the main event, with talks at every level of expertise, so don't miss the CfP to submit your talk soon!

More details will be available on [rustconf.com][rustconf]. You can also follow [@rustconf] on Twitter for all announcements.

[rustconf]: http://rustconf.com/
[@rustconf]: https:/twitter.com/rustconf

### October: Rust Belt Rust

[Rust Belt Rust](https://www.rust-belt-rust.com/) will have its third iteration this year in October.
You can once again expect two days of talks and workshops.

More details will come soon.
Follow [@rustbeltrust] on Twitter for the latest news.

[@rustbeltrust]: https://twitter.com/rustbeltrust

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As always, there are nearly a hundred [Rust User Groups][usergroups] worldwide.
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is our calendar public? this might be a nice place to link to it.

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Yes! Will add the link

Take a look if there's one near you or get people together and start a new one!

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might be neat to add some instructions here for how to get your event listed on our calendar or spotlighted in posts like this

cc @Manishearth if you wanted to start a Switchboard team repo and have instructions there, that might be nice!

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Good idea, I'll try to do this this week

[usergroups]: https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/user-groups.html