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If you're looking at this page, we'd like to thank you for speaking at RustWeek 2025! As a speaker, you might have some questions about the conference. We're happy to answer any questions you have, but here are at least some frequently asked question you can look at. | ||
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If you have any questions not answered on this page, you can send Terts an email at <[email protected]>. | ||
If you have any questions not answered on this page, you can send an email to <[email protected]>. | ||
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## When am I speaking? | ||
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You can find the time of the talks in the [schedule](https://2025.rustnl.org/schedule/). | ||
You can find the time of the talks in the [timetable](/schedule/tuesday). We'd like to ask you to come to the stage in the break before your talk so we can give you a microphone and check that your slides are set up properly. | ||
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## How long should my talk be? | ||
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Depending on the time slot allocated for your talk, it should be 15 or 30 minutes. This is excluding 5-10 min questions. | ||
Depending on the time slot allocated for your talk, it should be 15 or 30 minutes. | ||
After that time, we always scheduled a gap of 5 to 10 minutes for audience questions. | ||
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## Who should my talk be aimed at? | ||
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The goal is to target intermediate/advanced Rustaceans, but if your talk targets beginners that's fine too. You can assume that the audience is familiar with Rust. | ||
The goal is to target intermediate to advanced Rustaceans. | ||
You can assume that everyone in the audience is at least familiar with Rust, | ||
so there should be no need to explain basic properties of the language. | ||
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## What can I use for slides? | ||
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The easiest option is to send us a PDF with your slides beforehand. If you'd like to use another format, please let us know beforehand. | ||
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If you have any special requests, such as using your own laptop, live demoing, screencasting from a phone, or anything else, please contact Terts well in advance of the conference. The venue is experienced in handling complex setups, but they do need to know what they have to arrange. | ||
If you have any special requests, such as using your own laptop, live demoing, screencasting from a phone, or anything else, | ||
please contact us well in advance of the conference so we can notify the venue as well. | ||
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Here are some additional factoids and tips: | ||
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- The aspect ratio of the main screen will be the standard 16:9. There is also an additional screen on each side. If you want something to be displayed there, feel free to ask. | ||
- The aspect ratio of the main screen will be the standard 16:9. | ||
- The laptop provided by the venue won't be connected to the internet, so if you provide a PDF or a PowerPoint file, make sure to embed all videos, fonts and other assets into the file. | ||
- If you present from your own laptop make sure that we can connect an HDMI cable to it. If it does not have an HDMI port, please bring your own dongle. | ||
- Even if you present from your own laptop you can send us a PDF or similar format as backup. | ||
- Even if you present from your own laptop, you can send us a PDF or similar format as backup. | ||
- We don't need to approve your slides, but if you want feedback on them, for example to check whether they are a good fit for the expected audience, you send them to us. | ||
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## Will the talk be live streamed and recorded? | ||
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