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The Call for Proposals for RustWeek 2027 is now open! If you’d like to give a talk, go here: https://lnkd.in/eegyUYSc The CFP closes Jan 10, 2027 #rustweek2027 #rustlang

** Ticket sales now open ** Get your tickets for RustWeek 2027! The world's biggest Rust conference returns to beautiful Utrecht in 2027, welcoming over 950 community members, professionals and the maintainers of Rust. We lowered the ticket prices: individual tickets are now 199 instead of 249 euro. A checkbox enables an additional 100 euro discount for those who can't afford the full price ✨️. https://2027.rustweek.org/ #rustweek2027 #rust

RustNL's Rust Maintainer Team (https://lnkd.in/eD-YyU-s) has grown and now consists of 14 people, including three interns! ✨️ Together, these people are either the author or a reviewer of more than 30% of all pull requests on the rust-lang/rust repository:

I was asked recently about the cost of running a (#rustlang) conference and why the ticket prices are what they are. We figured we can just publicly share the numbers for RustWeek, in the name of #transparency. :) RustWeek has many subevents (conference, hackathon, unconference, workshops, Rust All Hands, etc.), but I've tried to extract just the two day conference part of RustWeek 2026: Venue rent: € ~50k Lunch, snacks, drinks two full days: € ~130k (incl. catering services and exclusive access to 1000 person restaurant all day) A/V services: € ~30k (incl. livestreaming, professionals operating the cameras/microphones/screens in the rooms, editing the recordings, etc.) Stuff we set up at the venue: € ~20k (sponsor booths, entertainment, banners, stickers, wifi, etc.) Travel compenstation for speakers: € ~10k External services: € ~25k (accounting, registration & payment, event management, insurance, etc.) Miscelaneous: € ~15k This adds up to roughly € 280k for just the two conference days. (The total for all of RustWeek is ~€ 400k.) The money we get from sponsors covers roughly half of the costs. The other half has to be covered by tickets. We are currently the biggest Rust conference with 850+ attendees. We give free tickets to all the speakers and volunteers, which is almost a hundred people total. The sponsor packages also include a total of roughly 100 tickets. That leaves ~650 sold tickets. Those are roughly 250 corporate tickets (~410 euro after tax), 300 individual tickets (~190 euro after tax), and 100 student tickets (~30 euro after tax). Accounting for the various discounts (early bird, discount codes, etc.) and overhead, this leaves us with roughly 140k. Those student tickets are sold at a significant loss, but it's very important to us to not just run this conference for those with a well paid job. Setting the ticket prices is very tricky, because you have to set them a year in advance, before you know what amount of sponsorship to expect. We only find out *after* the event if we guessed correctly or if we ran at a loss. This year, we made a (very small) profit, which we'll spend on our Rust Maintainers Team: https://lnkd.in/eD-YyU-s

'Interop is the New Rewrite: Design Axioms for Rust's Next Frontier' by Tyler Mandry at RustWeek 2026! https://lnkd.in/eZwfBTbh #rustlang #RustWeek

'Creativity loves constraint (solvers)' by Adam Chalmers at RustWeek 2026! https://lnkd.in/ejChJ8RA #rustlang #RustWeek

'Between Computer Code And Legal Code: Open Source's Influence' by Æva Black at RustWeek 2026! https://lnkd.in/e9kp7bBy #rustlang #RustWeek

'Typst: Designing for Incrementality' by Laurenz Mädje at RustWeek 2026! https://lnkd.in/e78PEYzC #rustlang #RustWeek

'Rethinking the incremental system in between compilation types' by Alejandra González at RustWeek 2026! https://lnkd.in/erQDnTak #rustlang #RustWeek

'Tracking down undefined behaviour in Servo' by Josh Bowman-Matthews at RustWeek 2026! https://lnkd.in/eAYiFp8q #rustlang #RustWeek