Advocacy

via Jules she/her (@afewbugs@social.coop): I did this through https://ivsgb.org/ who are still going by the way, and I highly recommend the experience - spend a few weeks to a few months living and working with a bunch of other young people from all over the world, doing something useful. I probably learned more about being a human in a diverse world from this experience than I did from my subsequent four years as an undergrad.

International Voluntary Service is a UK charity, founded in 1931 as the British branch of Service Civil International, that places volunteers on community projects worldwide. Its listings range from short-term workcamps of a few weeks to long-term placements of up to a year, with a solidarity fund to help volunteers who couldn’t otherwise afford to participate.

Washington State made transit fare-free for everyone 18 and under in 2021, and the results are striking: nearly 15 million youth trips in 2023, plus another 1.5 million on the ferries. Agencies paired the free fares with outreach — classroom visits, field trips, and bus-riding lessons — so kids actually knew how to use the system.

via Rust Weekly: Fighting Rust Anxiety: Insights from a Go Developer

via Rust Weekly: Blog Post: Rust Is a Scalable Language

via Rust Weekly: NIST added Rust to its list of “Safer Languages” as part of its Software Assurance Metrics and Tool Evaluation

Adam Chalmers: Why use Rust on the backend?

via Rust Weekly: Switching from C++ to Rust