The keynote topics for this year's RustConf, the largest annual gathering of the Rust programming language community, have been announced, with topics ranging from "Making Open Source Secure By Design" to "Rust For Linux".

RustConf 2024 is being held in Montreal, Canada where it is being hosted by the Rust Foundation. The conference opens on Tuesday, September 10 with a sequence of optional workshops. The main conference runs from Wednesday to Thursday with the opening keynote starting at 9:45am. Sadly, the Friday "UnConference" experience that is a freeform Rust brainstorming and collaboration session has already sold out.

There is an alternative event for conference goers, though. Rust Global, dedicated to discussing the professional use of Rust, will run from  9am-1pm. 

On Wednesday September 11th, the first keynote, "Making Open Source Secure by Design" is being given by Aeva Black, Section Chief for Open Source Security at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and an open source hacker with 25 years of experience building digital infrastructure. Aeva's talk looks at how open source can be made  more secure by design and by default.

Nicholas Matsakis' keynote, which ends the proceedings on Wednesday is titled "Project Goals: Rust Roadmap 2.0", and expands on looks at the goals that the Rust project has set for 2024 and prospects for 2025 that we recently reported on in Rust Project Goals Ahead of RustConf. Nicholas is a Senior Principal Engineer at AWS and Co-Lead of the open source Rust Language Design Team. He has worked on Rust since 2011, and led the design of its "secret sauce", the borrow checker.

Jack Huey and James Munns are collaborating on the third keynote, "An Outsider's Guide to the Rust Project", taking place at the start of Thursday. The Rust project has grown both in members and in structure over the past years. This keynote will give a bird's eye view of the teams and structure of the people that make up the Rust Project today, how the teams communicate and make collaborative decisions, and how new people and groups can get involved. Both Jack and James are members of the Rust Project. Jack currently co-leads the types team, is a member of the compiler team, is a lang team advisor, and is the lang representative for the leadership council. James is one of the founding members of the Rust Embedded Working Group, and the Leadership Council Representative for the Launching Pad team.

The final keynote, which closes the conference, "Rust for Linux" is being given by Miguel Ojeda, who maintains the Rust for Linux project. This keynote will cover how Rust is used in the kernel, the challenges the developers are facing, and how both Rust for Linux and the Rust project are collaborating to address the kernel needs. This is something referred to from a Linux perspective in our report. Linus On Linux 2024.

More event information can be found at rustconf.com.

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