Hello Rufus: Rust language and Community can and will grow when it is in the Open and not affiliated with Mozilla or any other organization. Fresh perspective is absolutely essential.
As a case in point, please see this https://users.rust-lang.org/t/history-and-status-quo-of-async-non- blocking-i-o-in-rust/6441/2 It's when outsider's took JavaScript and innovated, that the language really grew in terms of innovation, capabilities both on the client side and server. NodeJS couldn't have ever happened at Mozilla, as an illustration. As far as Rust Bangalore is concerned, the thinking is very clear, There is absolutely no affiliation with Mozilla at any point in time. We are not accepting any gift, swag, co-branding etc. with Mozilla or any Mozilla representative at any point in time, not even any co- ordination. Potential Attendees and Speakers or any body for that matter will discover Rust Bangalore on their own. Since the theme for each month is already defined, we have a scaffold to work with. People can write on the meetup.com/rustox page, that they want to speak on this topic. If we do "meaningful" work, people will like to associate or else they will move on. That's the "metric" and the "credo" ! Our focus is quality and meritocracy, not numbers, which are the foundational principles of FOSS. If we created something, we have succeeded. Otherwise, as Linus Torvalds, says, "talk is cheap, show me the code" ! warm regards Saifi. > -------Original Message------- > From: Rufus Chakravarthy Sharma <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Rust Bangalore Meetup > Sent: Jun 05 '17 22:36 > > Hi Saifi, > If you find anything offensive in the mail. My sincere apologies. > I just wanted to check whether I may be useful to the meetups in any > way. > > My intention is purely to take this initiative to lot of people as > much as possible. > Rust Meetups/Workshop are much needed and appreciated at this early > point of time. Your voluntary initiative is a good one that's why it > already reached hundreds of people. > In my community there may be at-least one who is really interested in > learning Rust. I thought posting about the meetup in community pages > will reach to such kind of people. > Even sharing the post without your knowledge is not the right way to > do it. That's reason I asked for your opinion whether I can post it or > not... > > _Rust Bangalore as a community initiative is "not" affiliated to any > company including Mozilla. _ > Yes I do knew it and remember it from our first meetup. I was there as > an attendee and will be an attendee. > > _And we don't accept any swag, gifts etc from anyone including > Mozilla_ > My Apologies in this matter. There is nothing offensive here.. > Whenever we Mozillians used to have important > Meetups/sessions/hackathons, we use to give swags to the people > attended. > Never thought asking you will go in other way. Won't happen again. > > We are people volunteering for Open Source Community. Our only > intension is to support the cause. That's the reason I reached to you. > > Thanks again for you response. > > Rufus C Sharma​ > > On 05-Jun-2017 3:08 PM, "Saifi" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On June 5, 2017 2:42:01 PM GMT+05:30, Rufus Chakravarthy Sharma > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Saifi, > >> > >> As discussed earlier in the meetup, Me as a Mozilla TechSpeaker, > > would > >> like to give you a friendly hand for the Meetups you are > > conducting. > >> I would like to know, if kind of gesture from our side will help > > the > >> Meetups to be better..?? > >> > >> Few things about my involvement w.r.t Meetup and few questions I > > have > >> are > >> listed below, > >> > >> 1. I'm very clear this is your initiative and your meetup. I'm > > not > >> going to > >> interfere with any of your decision or the course you drafted. > >> On a lighter note I would like to let you know that, we are > > open to > >> suggestion and discussion for plannings. > >> > >> 2. As a Mozillian I would be happy to provide some swags, snacks > > from > >> our > >> side in the meetups if you don't mind. > >> > >> 3. As Mozilla community member we know lot of enthusiast how > > wanted to > >> learn Rust. Is it fine, if we direct them to your > > meetups/workshops. > >> > >> 4. Sometimes we'll be looking for guest speakers, In such cases > > can I > >> refer > >> your name and will you be interested in attending those. Most > > probably > >> the > >> sessions will be an hour or two long. > >> > >> 5. Regarding the Tech Space you have : You'll be hosting only > > your > >> company > >> related workshops/sessions in the space or even we can conduct > > few > >> events > >> related to Rust ?? > >> > >> 6. Can I publish about the meetups in our internal group ? This > > will > >> give a > >> heads-up to the wide community that something is happening in > >> Bangalore > >> w.r.t Rust and Rufus (A Mozilla TechSpeaker) is co-ordinating > > with the > >> meetup. > > > > Hello Rufus: > > > > First things first, please ake a look at the Goals of Rust > > Bangalore at > > > > https://www.hashdoc.com/documents/556864/rust-bangalore > > > > Here is something for you to know. > > > > Rust Bangalore as a community initiative is "not" affiliated to any > > company including Mozilla. > > > > And we don't accept any swag, gifts etc from anyone including > > Mozilla. > > > > 91SpringBoard guys have been kind enough to provide us space for > > the meetup once a month. They are a co-working space. We are very > > thankful to them. > > > > This is a pure voluntary initiative and we have the courage to > > define goals. Meritocracy is built on action and results. Hence, the > > next 7 sessions leading up to the hackathon in December are already > > planned. > > > > So, the best help you can do is, share the link > > https://meetup.com/rustox > > > > The attendees, speakers can themselves decide. People who want to > > learn, share can show up. Anybody wanting to speak can write on the > > meetup or mailing list. However, there is no "holier than thou" > > attitude here. Does that help ? > > > > Be open and stay in the open ! > > > > warm regards > > Saifi. > > > > cc: rustox @googlegroups.com > > > > -- > -- https://meetup.com/rustox --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Rust Bangalore Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
