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 Live online conversation about the use of Rust at Work.
 
+Trying to understand how people use Rust at their companies.
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 ## Planned events
 
 | When       | event                                                                                                                    |  who             | register                                                         |
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 | 2025.05.27 | [Rust at Work at Eureka Labs](https://rust.code-maven.com/rust-at-work-eureka-labs)                                      | Eli Shalom & Igal Tabachnik | [register](https://www.meetup.com/code-mavens/events/307673680/) |
 
 
+## Process
+
+* We schedule an event and let anyone register and attend the online event.
+* During the event the audience can ask questions in the chat room that can enhance the whole conversation.
+
+
+## Topics (not all of them might be relevant to you)
+
+* Please introduce yourself.
+* Please introduce the company you work for. The products and services of your company.
+
+* What was  your entry point to Rust?
+* Why do you use Rust?
+* How did you introduce Rust to this company?
+* Are you porting some software from some other language?
+    * Why?
+    * From which language?
+    * What is the process?
+* Are you writing a greenfield process in Rust?
+    * What were the alternatives?
+    * Why did you pick Rust?
+
+* How do you select your dependencies?
+    * Do you have a well defined process maybe even a selected team to accept new dependencies or is it up to the individual developer to add a new dependency?
+* How much can you rely on open source crates?
+    * How do you interact with the wider Rust community?
+    * How do you ensure that the crates you rely on directly and all their dependencies are secure and well maintained?
+* How do you fix issue in dependencies?
+    * Locally?
+    * Is it easy to have your changes accepted upstream?
+* Do you allocate time to your developers to contribute to open source projects?
+* Have you experienced with sponsoring certain open source Rust (or other) developers or bug bounties?
+
+* What is your branching and development process?
+	* Branches and pull-request?
+	* Code-reviews?
+	* Pair-programming?
+
+* Are you looking for Rust developers? What is the hiring process?
+* Is it easy/difficult to find Rust developers?
+* What can people do  to increase their chances to get picked and maybe even hired by your company?
+* Time-travel: What would be the answer if someone has the time to plan 1-2 years ahead?
+
+* What would you recommend to other engineering decision makers, CTOs, VP R&Ds, VP of Engineering, tech founders, etc. how to evaluate the feasibility of Rust for their projects and goals?
+* How to adopt rust?
+* What is the ROI switching to rust? How can we measure it?
+
+* How do you evaluate the decision to switch to / use Rust?
+* What are the parts of the Rust ecosystem that you found less than perfect? What do you miss from the language or from the ecosystem?
+* What is your experience using AI tools to write Rust code? How do you think will impact the market share of programming languages?
+
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