Events

Upcoming

Meetup #36

Link: Meetup.com
Date:
Venue: Adapt – Langebrogade 6a, 1411 København
Description:

We are excited to welcome you to Rust meetup #36!
Adapt Agency has come to our rescue and saved us from a scheduling conflict with our original host this month, so they'll be welcoming us to their offices at Christianshavn again.
Please note there are only 50 spots for this meetup so make sure to sign up early as the spots are first come first serve :-)
For anyone who signs up after those 50 are taken there's a waiting list so if you are prevented from joining after all please remove your attendance to give someone else your spot, thank you!

As usual, our program looks like this:

  • 18:05—18:15: Welcome!
  • 18:15—19:00: “Ditch the Rust Rewrite: A tale on the creation of libsyslog and libsyslog-sys” by Martin Samuelsson
  • 19:00—19:45: Break and food sponsored by Adapt
  • 19:50—20:35: "Building an IOT undercover agent with Rust" by Luis
  • 20:35—: Hang out and talk

We look forward to seeing you all!

Recent

Meetup #35

Link: Meetup.com
Date:
Venue: Google – Sankt Petri Passage 5, København
Description:

We are excited to welcome you to Rust meetup #35!

This month we're happy to announce that Google Cloud will be hosting us for the second time!

  • 18:05—18:15: Welcome!
  • 18:15—19:00: “Actors with Tokio – a lesson in ownership” by Alice Ryhl
  • 19:00—19:45: Break with food & drinks and a book raffle sponsored by O’Reilly
  • 19:50—20:35: “Paths, files and the lies we tell ourselves” by Gustav
  • 20:35—: Hang out and talk

Just like last time it's mandatory to sign up at the following link before the 25th 12:00: https://rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/rust-meetup

We look forward to seeing you all!

Meetup #34

Link: Meetup.com
Date:
Venue: Penneo – Enghavevej 40, 4. sal, 1674 København V
Description:

We are excited to welcome you to Rust meetup #34!

This time it'll take place at Penneo's offices at Vesterbro.
We are still ironing out the details.

  • 18:05—18:15: Welcome!
  • 18:15—19:00: Talk #1: Async cancellation-safety by Yoshua Wuyts
  • 19:00—19:45: Food sponsored by Penneo
  • 19:50—20:35: Talk #2: Practical zero-knowledge applications of Triton VM by Simon Shine
  • 20:35—: Free play

Due to space constraints we're forced to a 40 attendee limit so please make sure you sign up early as it's a first come first serve basis. That also means you should remove your self from the attendance list if you're prevented from participating such that it frees up a slot for people in the waiting list :-)

We look forward to seeing you all!

Meetup #33

Link: Meetup.com
Date:
Venue: Adapt – Langebrogade 6a, 1411 København
Description:

We are excited to welcome you to Rust meetup #33, this time Adapt Agency will be hosting us again at their offices at Christianshavn.
Please note there are only 50 spots for this meetup so make sure to sign up early as the spots are first come first serve :-)
For anyone who signs up after those 50 are taken there's a waiting list so if you are prevented from joining after all please remove your attendance to give someone else your spot, thank you!

As usual, our program looks like this:

  • 18:05—18:15: Welcome!
  • 18:15—19:00: “Introduction to proc_macros” by David Pedersen
  • 19:00—19:45: Break and food sponsored by Adapt
  • 19:50—20:35: "autometrics-rs" by Evan Schwartz
  • 20:35—: Hang out and talk

Meetup #32

Link: Meetup.com
Date:
Venue: Connected Cars – Borgmester Christiansens Gade 50, 2450 København
Description:

We are excited to welcome you to the first Rust meetup of 2023! 🦀🍾

For this edition, we have one speaker and then afterwards we will be doing an open showcase session where members of the community can show off their projects.

Agenda:
  • 18:05 - 18:15 – Welcome
  • 18:15 - 18:45 – “Putting Rust(The good kind) in your cars” by Christian
  • 18:45 - 19:15 – Break with food and drinks
  • 19:15 - 20:15 – Lightning showcase ⚡️

    Bring your project and show it off! Did you do your first Advent of Code in Rust? Have you been making a game in Bevvy? Did you defeat the borrow checker in single combat? If you are up for sharing: No need to prepare slides or anything, just bring your laptop and tell the group about it for 5 mins!

    Showcases:

    • Deriving SQL from git using `proc_macro`'s - Simon
    • Let’s solve the 1st Advent of Code together - Frederik
    • How to call a C function from Rust - Vanja
    • Your project? 🤗
  • 20:15 - xx:xx – Hangout and hack

Note: This event will not be recorded or live-streamed.

The venue and food for this meetup is generously sponsored by Connected Cars.

Hack Night #31

Date:
Venue: Google – Sankt Petri Passage 5, København
Description:

We are excited to welcome you to Rust Hack Night #31! This month we're happy to announce that Google Cloud will be hosting us!

  • 18:05—18:15: Welcome!
  • 18:15—19:00: "A Linux NVMe Driver in Rust" by Andreas Hindborg
  • 19:00—19:45: Break
  • 19:50—20:35: "The QOI Codec in Rust" by Frederik Jensen
  • 20:35—: Hang out and talk

Hack Night #30

Date:
Venue: Penneo – Enghavevej 40, 4. sal, 1674 København V
Description:

Hack Night #30 will take place at Penneo's offices at Vesterbro. We are thrilled to share with you the programme with you:

  • 18:05—18:15: Welcome!
  • 18:15—19:00: Talk by David Pedersen: Mind the GAT
  • 19:00—19:45: Food sponsored by Penneo
  • 19:50—20:35: Talk by Mikael Lund: Rust on 8-bit computers
  • 20:35—: Free play

Past

Hack Night #29

Date:
Venue: Adapt – Langebrogade 6A, 1411 København
Description:

Hack Night #29 will take place at Adapt Agency's offices at Christianshavn. We are excited to present to you the agenda below:

  • 18:05—18:15: Welcome!
  • 18:15—19:00: Video talk by Yoshua Wuyts: On static/non-dynamic async concurrency
  • 19:00—19:45: Food sponsored by Adapt Agency
  • 19:50—20:35: Talk by Søren Welling: Minipolars: Ongoing porting of the Lightning-fast DataFrame library pola.rs to R
  • 20:35—: Free play

Hack Night #28

Date:
Venue: Blackbird – Sundkaj 153, Pakhus 48, 2, 2150 København
Description:

We are excited to welcome you to a summer vacation Hack Night #28 at Black Bird's offices! Agenda is as follows:

  • 18:05—18:15: Welcome!
  • 18:15—19:00: Talk by Simon Shine: Efficient prime-field arithmetic in Rust
  • 19:00—19:45: Food sponsored by Blackbird
  • 19:50—20:35: Open Talk Slot
  • 20:35—: Free play

If you plan to participate, please sign up on this meetup event so we know how much food to order, and let us know in advance if you have any allergens. We look forward to receiving you!

If you missed the last meetup you can find the recorded talks online here: Fabian Badoi's I build a tool I use in Rust and Aske Simon Christensen's wrapping a multi-threaded C++ API in a Safe Rust API.

Hack Night #27

Date:
Venue: Connected Cars – Borgmester Christiansens Gade 50, 2450 København
Description:

We are excited to welcome you to the next meetup in Connected Cars's new offices. The agenda is as follows:

Agenda:

  • 18:05—18:15: Welcome!
  • 18:15—19:00: Talk by Aske Simon Christensen: Wrapping a multi-threaded C++ API in a Safe Rust API
  • 19:00—19:45: Food sponsored by Connected Cars
  • 19:50—20:35: Talk by Fabian Badoi: I build a tool I use in Rust
  • 20:35—: Free play

If you plan to participate, please sign up on this meetup event so we know how much food to order. We look forward to receiving you!

If you missed the last meetup you can find the recorded talks online here: Simon Rasmussen's WASM and WAT the fp-bindgen? and David Pedersen's Introduction to Axum.

Hack Night #26

Date:
Venue: Adapt – Langebrogade 6A, 1411 København
Description:

We are happy to announce that Adapt Agency will host the next meetup in their offices on Thursday, June 30th. If you want to participate please send an email to frederik@secondspectrum.com to confirm your presence. We look forward to taking you through an exciting programme:

Agenda:

  • 18:05—18:15: Welcome!
  • 18:15—19:00: Talk by Simon Rasmussen: WASM and WAT the fp-bindgen?
  • 19:00—19:45: Food sponsored by Adapt Agency
  • 19:45—19:50: Rust book raffle by Fiberplane
  • 19:50—20:35: Talk by David Pedersen: Introduction to Axum
  • 20:35—: Free play

Hack Night #25

Date:
Venue: Blackbird – Sundkaj 153, Pakhus 48, 2150 Nordhavn
Description:

We are happy to announce that Blackbird will host the next meetup in their offices on Thursday, April 28th. Good mood and a new-found, or long-lasting, passionate interest in Rust are the only requirements for participation!

Agenda:

  • 18:05—18:15: Welcome!
  • 18:15—19:00: Talk by Valdemar Erk: RRust: A reversible embedded language made with meta-programming
  • 19:00—19:45: Food sponsored by Fiberplane
  • 19:45—20:30: Talk by Alexandre Senges: Flappy Bird - Reinforcement learning in the browser with neat-gru and WASM
  • 20:30—: Hang out, hacking and networking

Hack Night #24

Date:
Venue: Adapt – Langebrogade 6A, 1411 Copenhagen K
Description:

We are happy to announce that Adapt A/S will host the next meetup in their offices on Thursday, February 24th. Good mood and a new-found, or long-lasting, passionate interest in Rust are the only requirements for participation!

Agenda:

Hack Night #23

Date:
Venue: Blackbird – Sundkaj 153, Pakhus 48, 2150 Nordhavn
Description:

We are happy to announce that Blackbird will host the next meetup in their offices on Thursday, January 27th.

Agenda:

  • 18:05—18:15: Welcome back!
  • 18:15—19:00: Talk by Simon Vandel Sillesen & Co (Blackbird): ATAT: AT protocol abstractions in Rust
  • 19:00—19:45: Pizza sponsored by Blackbird
  • 19:45—: Hang out, hacking and networking

Hack Night #22

Date:
Venue: Connected Cars – Banemarksvej 2B, 2600 Glostrup
Description:

We're back! Join us for the first hack night in 2021.

Agenda:

Hack Night #21

Date:
Venue: Omnio – Vester Voldgade 8
Description:

January 29 2020, 18:00—22:00 @ Vester Voldgade 8 (Omnio)

Join us for the first hack night in 2020.

Agenda:

  • 18:15—19:00: Talk by Alice Ryhl: The Future is here
  • 19:00—19:15 Food and hanging out
  • 19:15—20:00: Talk by Jesper Steen Møller: My tiny improvement in rustc

Hack Night #20

Date:
Venue: Omnio – Vester Voldgade 8
Description:

This will be the last hack night of 2019, and also the 20th we've held in total.

Agenda:

  • 18:15—19:00: Talk by Fedor Logachev: Games Development in Rust (a follow-up on his first talk two months ago)
  • 19:00—19:15 Food and hanging out
  • 19:15—20:00: 2nd talk (open spot)

Hack Night #19

Date:
Venue: Omnio – Vester Voldgade 8
Description:

Join us for another great evening of talks all things Rust-y and hanging out. This month's hack night will feature two talks, so there is no reason not to be there!

Agenda:

  • 18:15—19:00: Talk by Gustav: Introduction to Entity-Component Systems in Rust
  • 19:00—19:15 Food and hanging out
  • 19:15—20:00: Talk spot: Still open

Hack Night #18

Date:
Venue: Omnio – Vester Voldgade 8
Description:

Join us for another great evening of talks all things Rust-y and hanging out. This month's hack night will feature two talks, so there is no reason not to be there!

Agenda:

  • 18:15—19:00: Talk by Valdemar Erk: Generating comprehensive bindings for Futhark in Rust
  • 19:00—19:15 Food and hanging out
  • 19:15—20:00: Talk by Fedor Logachev: Games Development in Rust

Hack Night #17

Date:
Venue: Omnio – Vester Voldgade 8
Description:

After a two-month summer hiatus, we're back! Join us for another great evening of talks all things Rust-y and hanging out. We have an open call for talks.

Agenda:

  • 18:15—19:30: Talk(s)
  • 19:30—22:00 Food and hanging out

Hack Night #16

Date:
Venue: Omnio – Vester Voldgade 8
Description:

The sixteenth hack night for the Copenhagen Rust Group is upon us! Join us for another great evening of talks all things Rust-y and hanging out. We have an open call for talks.

Agenda:

  • 18:15—19:30: Talk by Alice Ryhl on Futures in Rust
  • 19:30—22:00 Food and hanging out

Hack Night #15

Date:
Venue: Omnio – Sundkaj 7, Nordhavn
Description:

The fifteenth hack night for the Copenhagen Rust Group is upon us! Join us for another great evening of talks all things Rust-y and hanging out. We have an open call for talks.

Agenda:

  • 18:15—19:30: Talk by Kei Shirakizawa on "Wrapping snap7 as a Rust crate."
  • 19:30—22:00 Food and hanging out

Hack Night #14

Date:
Venue: Omnio – Sundkaj 7, Nordhavn
Description:

Join us when we, for the third time in 2019, get together and talk and hack some Rust! We have an open call for talks.

Agenda:

  • 18:30—19:30: Talk by TBA
  • 19:30—22:00 Food and hanging out

UPDATE Despite no announced talks, we ended up with two talks (!) - laumann gave a talk on Pijul, a VCS that has explicit handling of conflicts based in category theory, fast algorithms and is written in Rust!

Martin (or |cos|) followed up with a talk on deploying Rust code on Android, going through the steps to call dynamic linkable libraries from Java, via JNI.

Hack Night #0xC

Date:
Venue: Omnio – Sundkaj 7, Nordhavn
Description:

For the second time in a row, we will meet on the last day of the month! We have an open call for talks.

Agenda:

Hack Night #12

Date:
Venue: Omnio – Sundkaj 7, Nordhavn
Description:

We skip the December Hack Night, and will reconvene again in the New Year of 2019. The next hack night will feature a presentation by James Dietrich on porting the Ruby gem scientist to Rust.

Agenda:

  • 18:30—19:30: Talk by James Dietrich: Getting Closure on Scientist
  • 19:30—22:00 Food and hanging out

UPDATE Thanks to everyone that showed up! A lot of new faces and some veterans. We had a great night with pizza and James entertaining everybody with his insights into closures in Rust. The slides are here.

Hack Night #11

Date:
Venue: Omnio – Sundkaj 7, Nordhavn
Description:

November's hack night will take place at Omnio in Nordhavn, we'll try to have food sponsored by Omnio.

Agenda:

  • 18:30—19:30: Talk by Christian Bourjau
  • 19:30—22:00 Food and hanging out

Hack Night 0xa

Date:
Venue: Zendesk – Snaregade 12
Description:

The tenth hack night will take place either at Zendesk downtown.

This time, we'll actually try to get some food sponsored. Stand by for news on that!

Agenda:

  • 18:30—19:30: Talk: By retep007
  • 19:30—end Food and hanging out

Hack #Nine

Date:
Venue: Omnio – Sundkaj 7, Nordhavn
Description:

The ninth hack night will take place in Nordhavn (at Omnio), this will be decided a little later. Going forward the default monthly hack night will be the last Thursday of the month.

Submissions for talks are welcome! Are you working on an exciting Rust project? Have you discovered something in and around Rust that you'd like to share? Please talk about it!

Agenda:

  • 18:30—19:30: Talk: Parsers and State Machines in Rust
  • 19:30—end Food and hanging out

Hack Night #8

Date:
Venue: Omnio – Sundkaj 7, Nordhavn
Description:

We will skip hack night in July, because it's holiday season and return strong in August!

Hack Night #7

Date:
Venue: Omnio – Sundkaj 7, Nordhavn
Description:

The next hack night will take place in Energy Hub in Nordhavn.

laumann will present a project he's been cooking for some time, otherwise the evening is open for hacking on your own projects in a cozy atmosphere.

Snacks will be sponsored by Omnio!

We're back! And it's fuzzy!

Date:
Venue: Jobindex – Holger Danskes Vej 91, Frederiksberg
Description:

After a long hiatus, we are starting up again with Rust hack nights. Our first meeting of 2018 will feature a presentation titled Rust and Fuzz Testing, delivered by the good folks at Seasoned.Software:

At Seasoned.Software we build a CI platform that uses fuzz testing to improve the quality of your software projects. We love Rust and we use it for most of our platform, and we support Rust projects as first class citizens. We will give a brief presentation on how Rust helped us build our platform, which problems we have encountered so far, and how we solved them. Afterwards we will explain why you should fuzz test your own projects and show how to set up fuzz testing for your own Rust projects.

Rust Hack Night #5

Date:
Venue: PROSA – Vester Farimagsgade 37A
Description:

We get together to hack on our own Rust projects, talk Rust and have fun.

Yet Another Hack Night

Date:
Venue: Kronprinsessegade 54, 5th floor
Description:

We get together to hack on our own Rust projects, talk Rust and have fun.

UPDATE We watched Raph Levien's presentation on the Xi editor, and spent some time trying to figure out if any of the linked frontends worked.

mbudde and laumann also hacked on redshift-rs, cleaning up some code and enabling it to read a user's ~/.config/redshift.conf configuration.

cph_rs.hack_night();

Date:
Venue: Zendesk – Snaregade 12
Description:

We get together to hack on our own Rust projects, talk Rust and have fun.

Note that it is a different location than past events. We thought it'd be fun to move it around a bit and for this event, we will be hosted at Zendesk. Thanks to jdietrich for setting it up!

Hack Night

Date:
Venue: Kronprinsessegade 54, 5th floor
Description:

We get together to hack on our own Rust projects, talk Rust and have fun.

Hack Night

Date:
Venue: Kronprinsessegade 54, 5th floor
Description:

Merry Christmas! Almost a year has gone by since the last meetup—but it is time again.

UPDATE An enjoyable evening working on individual projects. Among other things, laumann added command-line arguments to redshift-rs, a Redshift clone (using docopt).

We discussed implementing custom iterators for parsing emojis in text, and how to use the ? operator that was stabilized in Rust 1.13.

Hackathon

Date:
Venue: Kronprinsessegade 54, 5th floor
Description:

Riding the wave from the smashing success (and pizza) of the first Hackathon, the next event is on the horizon. To find a date in February, we have the following doodle (it is closed now). Just select the days that suit you, and we will make a decision by the end of next week.

Anyone is welcome, regardless of Rust proficiency (in fact, the hackathons are great places to pick up new knowledge fast).

Hackathon

Date:
Venue: Kronprinsessegade 54, 5th floor
Description:

We get together to hack some Rust.

Rust 1.0 Release Party

Date:
Venue: Robocat – Pilestræde 43, 2nd floor
Description:

Along with other Rust-enthusiastic groups, we had a Rust 1.0 release party, with t-shirts and everything! Link to the event.

Rust - Copenhagen Tech Polyglot Meetup

Date:
Venue: Kronprinsessegade 54, 4th floor
Description:

A Rust event organized in collaboration with the Copenhagen Tech Polyglots. We had a good evening talking all things Rust, and, of course, stickers. See the event here.