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Project health is a good goal. To help toward that, I suggest making it especially easy for people to donate money to Rust and to crate authors. This year, Moz
by jph 6y ago
Project health is a good goal. To help toward that, I suggest making it especially easy for people to donate money to Rust and to crate authors.
This year, Mozilla laid off Rust developers. Other languages have massive corporate backing e.g. Google Go, Oracle Java, Microsoft C#, etc.
I believe strongly in Rust, and also in professional programmers and companies doing funding for excellent software.
- steveklabnik 6y agoThis would be the job of the foundation, not the project itself. Here's the current state of that: https://github.com/rust-lang/foundation-faq-2020/blob/main/FAQ.md#q-individual-donations https://github.com/rust-lang/foundation-faq-2020/blob/main/F...
- rectang 6y agoI would like to see greater clarity in this document on limits on sponsor influence with regards to technical governance. For example, I'd like to know if technical governance is considered outside the scope of the Board of Directors. This is especially important since you have opted for a 501(c)(6), making it easy to be responsive to donors.
- steveklabnik 6y agoPlease open this as an issue on that repository, as that's the process there.
- archseer 6y agoAWS hired a whole bunch of core developers: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/why-aws-loves-rust-and-how-wed-like-to-help/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/why-aws-loves-rust-a...