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Do you think it would be feasible to fund a team of core developers directly by the community? A lot of people love Rust and might bei willing to contribute a s
by klft 6y ago
Do you think it would be feasible to fund a team of core developers directly by the community? A lot of people love Rust and might bei willing to contribute a small amount of money regularely to keep Rust independent from corporate politics.
- steveklabnik 6y agoI am not sure; to be honest, I am a bit skeptical of individuals being able to get enough money together. It's just math. We will always do our best to make sure that no one single company controls Rust, but we do also want Rust to be useful to industry, and so we do want to listen to our users, no matter where they come from.
- klft 6y agoIt might be an interesting experiment for the ex-Mozilla rust team to launch a kickstarter (or similar) project to get them funded for one year. So it would not be individuals but a team with some high-level goals they plan to work on for the next year. I have no idea how many people would fund a project like this but it would be a fast and low cost experiment to find that out. I would not position this as "the people vs. the industry", it would be just an additional option to move Rust forward.
- gnomeria 6y agoThat is indeed interesting. I've thought about mentioning http://aturon.github.io/sponsor/ http://aturon.github.io/sponsor/ but then I realized you said about not individuals but a team. So I guess crowdfunded project idea is not bad at all. I mean there probably some rewards tier to have some tokens or souvenier