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Help me help you!
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Hi! Welcome to my "office hours" repository. 



### TL;DR



If you want to sign up for some help, make your way to the appropriate

markdown file, find an available slot, and open a PR that adds your

name:



 - [October 2018 signups](2018/10.md)



### What is this?



Every week, I have a few "open slots" that I reserve to help people

work through problems that they are having with their Rust programs --

no problem is too big or too small! My goal with this is obviously to

help people, but also to gain some insight into what kinds of things

people find difficult about Rust, so that we can improve those

things. So, if you are a Rust user -- beginner or advanced -- and you

have a problem, you should sign up!



### The procedure



If you want to sign up, all you have to do is to open up the

appropriate Markdown file -- there is one per month. Find an available

slot and make a PR that adds your name. I'll try to merge PRs roughly

in the order they arrive, first thing in the morning. When the time

comes, we will be meeting in [my appear.in room][appear]. I plan to

add new months towards the end of each month.



[appear]: http://appear.in/i-heart-rust



**Confidentiality.** I will take notes on the problems that you bring

to me. I may write blog posts about some of my observations, though

without personal details. I would love it if you can make available

sources or links. If however you want to bring a problem where the

source is private, that's fine too.



**Experience levels.** Some of the slots are marked with experience

levels -- for example, some slots are designated for beginners.

Please try to pick a suitable slot for the level of your problem.



**No slots left?** Sorry, I wish I had time for everyone. I would

however recommend checking out the [Rust users board]. Lots of

friendly and knowledgable folks there. If you prefer synchronous chat,

there is also `#beginners` on the [Rust

discord](https://discord.gg/rust-lang) and `#rust-beginners` on

`irc.mozilla.org`. Finally, check out the [rust-learning] repository,

which has an encyclopaedic listing of stuff.



[Rust users board]: https://users.rust-lang.org/

[rust-learning]: https://github.com/ctjhoa/rust-learning



**No guarantees.** Sometimes last minute things come up and I have to

cancel. I'll try not to, though!



### Who I am



I'm @nikomatsakis, a member of the Rust core, language, and compiler

teams. I've been working on Rust for the last 7 years or so. I like it

and I hope you will, too!