To add on to kibwen and Manishearth, another aspect is that one of the Rust Team's 2017 objectives [1] is to get our community more engaged in mentoring people

To add on to kibwen and Manishearth, another aspect is that one of the Rust Team's 2017 objectives [1] is to get our community more engaged in mentoring people and projects. We see the open ended aspect of this contest as a way to encourage people to help find and fix security bugs in our ecosystem. This should help to accelerate getting Rust even more production ready. [1]: https://github.com/aturon/rfcs/blob/roadmap-2017/text/0000-roadmap-2017.md https://github.com/aturon/rfcs/blob/roadmap-2017/text/0000-r...