This document summarizes the kick-off meeting of the Rust Users Group in the Philippines. It introduces Rust as a systems programming language developed by Mozilla that prevents issues like segfaults and guarantees thread safety. It discusses Mozilla's sponsorship of Rust since 2009 and lists some projects using Rust like Dropbox, Servo, and a microkernel operating system called Redox. The meeting covered setting expectations around meeting frequency, collaboration tools, and learning resources for the RustPH community.

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