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JeanHeyd Meneide was invited to give a keynote at RustConf. He was not planning on giving a talk at all (can't recall whether he was planning on going to the co
by pdpi 3y ago
JeanHeyd Meneide was invited to give a keynote at RustConf. He was not planning on giving a talk at all (can't recall whether he was planning on going to the conference in the first place), and he says he was plenty clear about what he would be talking about, that it's super experimental and somewhat controversial (from a technical standpoint), and and that he didn't want him giving a keynote about it to seem like tacit endorsement of his ideas. The RustConf organisers assured him it would be fine.
Fast forward and the conf organisers advise him that his keynote has been "demoted" to a regular talk. He says this is unprofessional and a lack of respect, cancels his talks, and posts about it. One of the people in the core team (I think?) quit in protest because of how this all happened behind the scenes. This particular post is JeanHeyd's comments on JT's explaining why he quit.
- coldtea 3y ago>Fast forward and the conf organisers advise him that his keynote has been "demoted" to a regular talk. He says this is unprofessional and a lack of respect, cancels his talks, and posts about it. You missed the part where this demoting happened behind the scenes, was not voted for by the team, the suggestion to downvote didn't even reach the team, because some shady person did it on their own, and it was communicated to JeanHeyd himself at the last minute (so that he could check with the team and bring it to their awareness either). So, kind of missing the whole point, and painting a bad picture of JeanHeyd to boot...
- pdpi 3y agoI might've been a bit overzealous in keeping my own opinion out of it. I didn't meant to paint a bad picture of JeanHeyd. In fact, I specifically tried to highlight how he tried to avoid drama. Ultimately, I don't even think the shady behind the scenes stuff is the part we should focus on.They invited him to give the keynote, he advised them that it might be a problem, they specifically told him it was fine, and then dropped the keynote for precisely the reasons he said it might be a problem. That is extremely disrespectful and unprofessional by any reasonable standard.
- peteradio 3y agoI think the behind the scenes stuff is what makes this relevant at all. How is an organization bound by some particular set of decision making rules able to get totally circumvented in this case?
- DonHopkins 3y ago>because some shady person did it on their own Who?
- jcranmer 3y agoThis has not been publicly revealed yet, I believe. The person at RustConf who made the decision to downgrade the talk has admitted their role (see https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/13tsmht/comment/jlxmcnb/ https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/13tsmht/comment/jlxmc...).