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I have resigned from all roles in rustlang, effective immediately

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Re: I have resigned from all roles in rustlang, effective immediately

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Post by loeg »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #2

Here's the reasoning, should the tweets get deleted: https://thephd.dev/i-am-no-longer-speaking-at-rustconf-2023

Tl;dr they got invited to talk, the organizers didn't look to closely at the talk, and the talk was rejected or downgraded at the last minute. There is some speculation this was deliberate but I did not see it substantiated. Might have just missed it, though.

Is the blog author the same person as the tweeter? My impression is phantomderp on twitter is the blogger, but the quote tweet is another account.

Re: I have resigned from all roles in rustlang, effective immediately

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Post by daniel-thompson »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #2

Here's the reasoning, should the tweets get deleted: https://thephd.dev/i-am-no-longer-speaking-at-rustconf-2023

How does [person A choosing not to speak at a conference] connect to [person B leaving the Rust project]?

Re: I have resigned from all roles in rustlang, effective immediately

#13

Post by dom96 »

wk_end wrote: post #9
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #4

It seems the person who resigned here was on the Rust core team, and had been involved in Rust for quite a long time ( https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcement-jonathan-turn... ).

In no way defending the sloppy conference planning or how the former keynote speaker got screwed here, but...unless I'm missing something it seems pretty disproportionate to completely leave a community you've invested over seven years of your life in over sloppy conference planning, doesn't it? I feel like I'm missing something.

I really doubt this is the sole reason. It’s likely simply what broke the camel’s back so to speak.

Re: I have resigned from all roles in rustlang, effective immediately

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #2

Here's the reasoning, should the tweets get deleted: https://thephd.dev/i-am-no-longer-speaking-at-rustconf-2023

If the tweets get deleted: that post was made by a different person than the one who resigned, but it seems the latter's resignation was prompted by it.

Re: I have resigned from all roles in rustlang, effective immediately

#15

Post by imran-iq »

wk_end wrote: post #9
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #4

It seems the person who resigned here was on the Rust core team, and had been involved in Rust for quite a long time ( https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcement-jonathan-turn... ).

In no way defending the sloppy conference planning or how the former keynote speaker got screwed here, but...unless I'm missing something it seems pretty disproportionate to completely leave a community you've invested over seven years of your life in over sloppy conference planning, doesn't it? I feel like I'm missing something.

Allegedly this isn't the first time something like this has happened[0].

Just feels like more open source drama tbh.

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https://twitter.com/__phantomderp/status/1662235332375347202

Re: I have resigned from all roles in rustlang, effective immediately

#16

Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

daniel-thompson wrote: post #12
colejohnson66 wrote: post #2

Here's the reasoning, should the tweets get deleted: https://thephd.dev/i-am-no-longer-speaking-at-rustconf-2023

How does [person A choosing not to speak at a conference] connect to [person B leaving the Rust project]?

We can only speculate since the tweet doesn't explain the connrction, it only indicates one (via quote-tweeting).

Re: I have resigned from all roles in rustlang, effective immediately

#17

Post by jcranmer »

loeg wrote: post #11
colejohnson66 wrote: post #2

Here's the reasoning, should the tweets get deleted: https://thephd.dev/i-am-no-longer-speaking-at-rustconf-2023

Tl;dr they got invited to talk, the organizers didn't look to closely at the talk, and the talk was rejected or downgraded at the last minute. There is some speculation this was deliberate but I did not see it substantiated. Might have just missed it, though. Is the blog author the same person as the tweeter? My impression is phantomderp on twitter is the blogger, but the quote tweet is another account.

It looks like the person who is resigning is not the one whose talk was rejected/downgraded, but is doing so because of the way the talk was rejected/downgraded.

Re: I have resigned from all roles in rustlang, effective immediately

#18

Post by netaustin »

wk_end wrote: post #9
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #4

It seems the person who resigned here was on the Rust core team, and had been involved in Rust for quite a long time ( https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcement-jonathan-turn... ).

In no way defending the sloppy conference planning or how the former keynote speaker got screwed here, but...unless I'm missing something it seems pretty disproportionate to completely leave a community you've invested over seven years of your life in over sloppy conference planning, doesn't it? I feel like I'm missing something.

What you're describing may be the sunk cost fallacy [https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/the-sunk-cost-fallacy].
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