@pointblank_club has produced a double digit number of acceptances to #GSoC (Google Summer of Code) 2026. It’s a big number. It’s more than double of what we did last year. We’re worried about the JEE style discourse that this will create. So I’m not here to talk about numbers. Instead I want to talk a little bit about our process, and the difference between enthusiastically participating in GSoC versus crossing the line into unethical territory. - Educating the participants is extremely important. Every year at Point Blank starts with a Primer on FOSS development. What is open source, how it came to be, the four freedoms of free software, the story of the Linux kernel and GNU, licensing and how it shapes the landscape. The idea of giving back via contributions and volunteering. - Volunteering is important. You’ll find Point Blank members at various FOSS conferences around the city - IndiaFOSS, RustIndia, IICT and more. You’ll find them at the GSoC booth at FOSSASIA. They do everything from managing the recording equipment to taking out the trash. They interact with maintainers and learn about their challenges, and sensitise themselves to the challenges that maintainers face everyday. - Every year, we have a sizeable number of mentors who contribute back to their communities long after having completed GSoC themselves. - No tolerance for bad behaviour. We have suspended and removed people from the club over a single small incident of unethical conduct. Something as simple as assigning yourself an issue that was already taken. We have zero tolerance for sloppy work and bad behaviour. All juniors start by working on internal projects first to learn basic git workflows and etiquette. - It takes time to build excellence. We have been doing this for 7 years now. We started with 1 GSoC contributor in 2020, then 2 in 2021, 4 in 2022 to 7 last year. We’ve had the fortune of meeting several org mentors and admins, and refine our strategy over the years. That’s how we got the results we did. Just by sticking to the rules, giving it our best shot and contributing. Unfortunately this is not the case with many other institutions that use underhanded tactics to get selections, and we hope that we can serve as an example that sometimes to be the best all you need to do is do the right thing! CC: @SkySingh04, @dhruvslashex

The Rust India Conference 2026 videos are officially LIVE! 🦀🇮🇳 Missed a session? Want to re-watch your favorite technical deep dive? Dig into the full playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL… Thank you to all our sponsors, speakers, the community and @hasgeek for making this year’s conference a success. Happy hacking! #rustlang #RustIndia #rust #bengaluru #conference #hasgeek

Presented “Type to Trust” last week. Grateful for the love, energy, and Rust India community. To many more! 🦀 #RustIndia Thank you to @IndiaRust @hasgeek @fenil_jain_ For the curious the slides are at: farhaan.bukh.sh/assets/type-… The live stream: youtu.be/xPWuTPfI6Xs?t=23463

Nimalan from @e6data on, the composable era of Databases and how Rust is leading that change. #rust #rustlang #RustIndia #hasgeek

Priyanshu from @aftershootco on ML in Rust. #rust #rustlang #RustIndia #hasgeek

Talk from @Samyak210 on Async cancellation. #rust #rustlang #RustIndia #hasgeek

And we kick off Rust India Conference 2026 with Niko Matsakis's talk!!! The conference livestream is available at has.gy/0emJ Thanks to our livestream sponsor @rustrover @jetbrains. #rust #rustlang #RustIndia #conference #bengaluru

Second workshop of the day. Build a concurrent cache in Rust with @MakhijaSarthak. Thanks to our gracious hosts @e6data for hosting the workshops. #rust #rustlang #RustIndia #conference #hasgeek #bengaluru

There are going to be some cool swags at the conference tomorrow. Come visit our sponsor @aftershootco at their booth. #rust #rustlang #RustIndia #bengaluru #hasgeek #conference

And we start off Rust India 2026 with the first workshop on Rust's Type System for Data Engineering. #rust #rustlang #RustIndia #conference #bengaluru #RustIndia2026 #hasgeek #e6data

Building the future of systems engineering in India isn’t a solo mission. 🦀🇮🇳 We are incredibly grateful to the partners who are making #RustIndia2026 possible. These organizations aren't just sponsors; they are power users and contributors pushing the boundaries of what Rust can do in production. They represent the diversity and strength of the Rust ecosystem in India today. A huge thank you to our 2026 sponsors: 🏆 Platinum: @invideoOfficial - Redefining video creation with high-performance systems. 🥇 Gold: @aftershootco & @e6data - Leading the charge in AI-driven photography and high-concurrency data engines. 🥈 Silver: @laserdatainc, @pre6ai, @juspay (@HyperSwitchIO), and @noondesign - The teams building the next generation of streaming, industrial AI, payments, and design-to-code infrastructure. 🎥 Livestream Partner: @rustrover by @JetBrains - Ensuring our technical deep-dives reach the global Rust community. These teams will have booths at the conference and some are actively hiring for their Rust teams. If you’re looking for your next challenge, come meet them in person at the venue! Get your tickets here: hasgeek.com/rustbangalore/ru… #rust #rustlang #RustIndia #bengaluru #conference #hasgeek

Ready to move Rust ML from "cool demo" to production? 🦀🤖 Join the Birds of a Feather (BoF) session at #RustIndia2026: "Practical Machine Learning & Portable Compute." Facilitated by @swarnimarun, this is an open, discussion-driven forum on: - Hardware Portability: Integrating diverse compute backends. - Inference at Scale: Real-world performance and deployment patterns. - Ecosystem Integration: Bridging Rust into existing ML stacks. No lectures - just a high-signal exchange of ideas and failure modes from practitioners in the field. 👉 Get your tickets here: hasgeek.com/rustbangalore/ru… #rust #rustlang #RustIndia #conference #bengaluru #hasgeek

"Faster translation is still translation." 🦀📐 We are incredibly happy to have @noondesign as a sponsor for #RustIndia2026! As systems thinkers, we know that the best way to fix a recurring problem is to address the underlying model. The "Design-to-Code" gap has never been a tooling problem - it’s an architectural one. Noon just announced a $44M round to build a dual-canvas that treats design and code as a single, unified system. They are moving away from lossy translations between a canvas and a repo to create one source of truth where design lives directly on top of production code. Whether you're building design systems in Rust or React, this is a massive leap for how we think about production-ready interfaces. We’re excited to have a partner that’s as obsessed with architectural precision as the Rust community is. Check out their vision: noon.design/ noon.design/announcing-noon #rust #rustlang #RustIndia #conference #bengaluru #hasgeek

Resumes lie. The compiler doesn’t. But how do you interview for that? 🦀 Join the Birds of a Feather session at #RustIndia2026 to discuss the state of Rust hiring with @swarnimarun. Whether you're a founder trying to scale a systems team or a dev looking for your next Rust role, come share your experiences and learn what signals actually matter in 2026. 🛠️ Don't miss our April 17th workshops in Bengaluru! hasgeek.com/rustbangalore/bu… hasgeek.com/rustbangalore/ru… 👉 Get your tickets here: hasgeek.com/rustbangalore/ru… #rust #rustlang #RustIndia #conference #bengaluru #hasgeek

300M transactions/day. One unified Rust library. 🚀🦀 Join Arun Raj from @juspay @HyperSwitchIO at #RustIndia2026 to see how Juspay turned a combinatorial nightmare of 200 payment methods into a "Universal Grammar" using Rust. The Breakdown: ✅ Traits for unified API contracts ✅ Proc-macros to kill boilerplate ✅ FFI for cross-language SDKs ✅ Making the "Type System the Spec" The full April 18th schedule is officially LIVE! Grab your tickets. hasgeek.com/rustbangalore/ru… #rust #rustlang #RustIndia #conference #bengaluru #hasgeek

Shipping ML to the Edge? Stop fighting platform-specific runtimes. 🦀📱 Join @Blonteractor from @aftershootco at #RustIndia2026 for a masterclass on building a portable inference layer in Rust. The Deep Dive: ✅ Safe Rust wrappers for OpenVINO, CoreML, and MNN ✅ Managing ABI compatibility across OS boundaries ✅ Debugging finicky GPU drivers & runtime constraints ✅ Real-world lessons in minimizing FFI overhead The full April 18th schedule is LIVE! Grab your tickets! hasgeek.com/rustbangalore/ru… #rust #rustlang #RustIndia #conference #bengaluru #hasgeek

92% improvement in P9999 latency. 4 GB/s consumer throughput. One node. 🚀 How? By building @ApacheIggy entirely in Rust. Join @EigenVectorizer from @laserdatainc at #RustIndia2026 for a deep dive into: ✅ Why they swapped tokio_rs for io_uring ✅ Zero-copy serialization strategies ✅ Handling RefCell hurdles in async Rust ✅ The move to Viewstamped Replication (VSR) The schedule is officially LIVE! Grab your tickets! hasgeek.com/rustbangalore/ru… #rust #rustlang #RustIndia #conference #bengaluru #hasgeek

Ever wanted to build an OS for the Raspberry Pi 5 from the ground up? 🦀🔌 At #RustIndia2026, @devanshlodha_12 is taking us into the world of bare-metal engineering. Learn how to leverage Rust to build a "Safe by Construction" embedded system, from the boot loader to the kernel. #rust #rustlang #RustIndia #conference #bengaluru #hasgeek

Rust India Conference 2026 schedule is live! Check it out! hasgeek.com/rustbangalore/ru… #rust #rustlang #RustIndia #conference #bengaluru #hasgeek

Building for the Unstoppable. 🦀 Event-driven systems are everywhere, but few are built to handle the chaos of real - world restarts and load spikes. @shrirambalaji joins us at #RustIndia2026 to show how Rust helps us reason about messaging, streaming, and event sourcing at scale. From ownership boundaries to bounded queues, learn the primitives that make distributed systems actually work. Join us for the conference. hasgeek.com/rustbangalore/ru… #rust #rustlang #RustIndia #bengaluru #conference #hasgeek