Executive Director of ISRG here. To provides some more clarity on how this partnership works... ISRG plans and coordinates investments in moving open source so

Executive Director of ISRG here. To provides some more clarity on how this partnership works... ISRG plans and coordinates investments in moving open source software to memory safe languages. We have a strong preference for working on these plans with maintainers and developers, and then funding them to execute the plan. Once we have a plan prepared, and, ideally, maintainers/developers on board, then we pitch it for funding. Once someone (e.g. Google) funds the project, then ISRG handles contracts with the project developers/maintainers to get the work done. In some cases maintainers may be on board but want us to find a contractor to actually do the work. In both of the first two projects, and in most future cases, the money that Google (or another company) provides will largely go to project maintainers / developers.