Launching the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund

If you want to financially support the development of Rust, please consider (RFMF). Since then, the Rust Project has been closely cooperating with the Rust Foundation to determine how exactly this fund will be used to support Rust maintainers. This resulted in the acceptance of and the .

. Each Maintainer in Residence will be funded to .

The goal of this program is to provide stable and long-term funding so that maintainers can focus on important work that ensures the long-term health of Rust. The funding team will select Maintainers in Residence based on funding availability and maintenance needs within the Rust Project, and help ensure that they are successful. We expect that this will usually be a (near) full-time position, but that will depend on the nature of the work and the area of maintenance.

This program extends our existing support for Rust maintainers, such as the . An important development is that we now have a centralized .

We expect to hire the first Maintainer in Residence in the upcoming months and announce it on this blog, so stay tuned!

recently hired several Rust Project maintainers. Previously, we . We welcome all efforts that can help support Rust Project maintainers, who often do work that is near invisible and thankless, while at the same time incredibly important and necessary, on a volunteer basis.

Thank you for considering sponsoring the development and maintenance of Rust! You can find more information about funding Rust on our concept used by the Python Software Foundation (PSF), with which we led several helpful discussions. Thank you, PSF!