Held at the Mozilla Community Space Manila on Sat 16 APR 2016.

1. Rust
Users Group
Kick Off
Meeting
16 Apr 2016
#MozillaPH
#RustPH

2. Let’s get to know
each other first.
What is your name?
From where are you?
What do you do?

3. What is
Mozilla?

4. #MozillaPH

5. History of Mozilla
On 23 Feb 1998,
Netscape Communications Corp.
created a project called
Mozilla (Mosaic Killer + Godzilla).
Mozilla was launched 31 Mar 1998.

6. The
Mozilla Manifesto

7. Mozilla’s Mission
To ensure the Internet
is a global public
resource, open &
accessible to all.

8. Get involved …
mozilla

10. http://friends.mozilla.org
Firefox Friends

11. Firefox Student
Ambassadors (FSA)
http://fsa.mozillaphilippines.org

12. Internship
at Mozilla
https://careers.mozilla.org/university/

13. Some stuff that we
are working on …
mozilla

15. #MozillaPH

17. How to be part of
MozillaPH?

18. Areas of Contribution
ü Helping Users
(Support)
ü Testing & QA
ü Coding
ü Marketing
ü Translation &
Localization
ü Web Development
ü Firefox Marketplace
ü Add-ons
ü Visual Design
ü Documentation &
Writing
ü Education
http://join.mozillaph.org

19. Mozilla
Developer
Network

20. MDN Mission
To provide complete, accurate, &
helpful documentation for
everything about the open Web,
whether it's supported by
Mozilla-built software or not.
If it's an open technology
exposed to the Web,
we want to document it.

21. MDN Mission…
In addition,
MDN provides documentation
about how to build & contribute
to Mozilla projects
& about Firefox OS
& Web app development.

22. MDN
Community

23. MDN Community
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-mdc
https://twitter.com/MozDevNet
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.mdc
irc://irc.mozilla.org/mdn

24. Join MozillaPH now!
http://join.mozillaph.org

25. Co-work from
MozSpaceMNL
http://mozspacemnl.org

27. What is
Rust?

28. What is Rust?
• Rust is a systems programming language
that runs blazingly fast, prevents
segfaults, & guarantees thread safety.
ü Segfault (segmentation fault) what?
§ access violation is a fault raised by
hardware with memory protection,
notifying an operating system (OS)
about a memory access violation; on
x86 computers this is a form of
general protection fault.

29. Mozilla &
Rust?

30. Mozilla ❤️ Rust
• Rust grew out of a personal project by
Mozilla employee Graydon Hoare.
• Rust is sponsored by Mozilla Research
since 2009 (announced in 2010).

31. Features of
Rust?

32. Features of Rust
• Zero-cost abstractions
• Move semantics
• Guaranteed memory safety
• Threads without data races
• Trait-based generics
• Pattern matching
• Type inference
• Minimal runtime
• Efficient C bindings

33. Projects using
Rust

34. Projects Using Rust
v Magic Pocket
§ Dropbox's file storage system that powers their
Diskotech petabyte storage machines.
v Servo
§ Mozilla's new parallel rendering engine
developed in collaboration with Samsung.
v OpenDNS
§ Uses Rust in two of its components.
v Redox OS
§ A microkernel operating system being
developed in Rust.

35. Film (Lecture) Showing
“The Rust Programming
Language”
by Aaron Turon
of Mozilla Research

36. #RustPH

37. Now, let’s
decide…

38. Let’s Decide…
• Frequency of face-to-face meetings
(check-ins)?
• Weekly calls (via Vidyo, Google
Hangouts, Skype, etc)?
• Tools to use for collaborative learning?
ü FB Group
ü MOODLE Server
ü Mailing List

39. Let’s Decide…
• Suggestions for resources to use?
ü Books
ü Websites
ü Resource Speaker from MDN

40. Q&A

41. Group Photo

42. Thank you!
Maraming salamat po!
http://www.mozillaphilippines.org
bob@mozillaph.org