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I can't speak to the foundation's performance or communication, but the purpose is more than holding its trademarks; it's for holding any/all assets for the org
by neandrake 5y ago
I can't speak to the foundation's performance or communication, but the purpose is more than holding its trademarks; it's for holding any/all assets for the organization. I thought the main catalyst for the rust foundation was there being many people/organizations which wanted to donate/fund development of rust but no means for handling the money (responsibly).
- mastax 5y agoWell AFAICT the foundation isn't funding any developers at the moment, either. I remember from the discussions that was always a far-off goal. Though it probably does make it easier to coordinate donating hardware resources.
- vlang1dot0 5y agoThe foundation is funding oncall support staff for crates.io which was a much more urgent need than funding more devs. Amazon, Microsoft, Huawei, Google and Futurewei are all now employing a good chunk of the devs to work on it full time.
- erickt 5y agoI believe the first major funding by the Rust Foundation was hiring Ferrous to help develop and maintain crates.io: https://foundation.rust-lang.org/posts/2021-10-18-crates-io-oncall-ferrous-systems/ https://foundation.rust-lang.org/posts/2021-10-18-crates-io-...