announce feb lang team design meetings

Author: nikomatsakis

posts/inside-rust/2020-01-24-feb-lang-team-design-meetings.md

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+layout: post
+title: "February Lang Team Design Meetings"
+author: Niko Matsakis
+description: "Lang Team Design Meetings scheduled for February"
+team: the language team <https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/lang>
+---
+
+We've scheduled our **language team design meetings** for February. The current plans are as follows:
+
+* February 3rd -- we will do an overview of **specialization**. We'll cover details from the RFC but in particular talk about the [as-yet-unimplemented plans to make it sound](http://aturon.github.io/tech/2018/04/05/sound-specialization/).
+* February 10th -- we will cover interactions between the `&T` type and LLVM's dereferenceable attribute, such as [rust-lang/rust#55005](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/55005) and [problems modeling MMIO](https://github.com/japaric/volatile-register/issues/10).
+* February 17th -- no meeting, it is President's Day in the US and many of us are absent
+* February 24th -- we will summarize discussions from [the ffi-unwind project group] about whether we should permit foreign exceptions to propagate across the "C" ABI boundary, or establish a separate ABI (e.g., "C unwind") for such cases.
+
+[the ffi-unwind project group]: https://github.com/rust-lang/project-ffi-unwind
+
+## About the language team design meetings
+
+The idea of the design meeting is that it's a time for us to have
+in-depth discussions on some particular topic. This might be a burning
+problem that we've discovered, an update on some existing design work,
+or a forward looking proposal.
+
+The meetings are open for anyone to listen in and attend. They are
+typically also recorded and posted online, along with minutes, after
+the fact. They generally take place on Mondays at "noon Boston time"
+-- but for the precise scheduling you should check the [lang team
+calendar]. Scheduled meetings are subject to change and
+cancelation. In that case, the calendar events will be updated.
+
+[lang team calendar]: https://github.com/rust-lang/lang-team/#meeting-calendar