March 2025 Project Director Update
This blog series aims to provide greater transparency and insight into the work of Project Directors and the Rust Foundation’s activities. This post was originally published on the Inside Rust Blog and is being shared here to ensure broader reach across our community.
This is the fourth blog post in the series started December 2024 where us Rust Foundation Project Directors will be sharing the highlights from last month’s Rust Foundation Board meeting. You’ll find the full February 2025 minutes on the Rust Foundation’s site!
Highlights from the February meeting include:
- It was Eli Gild’s first meeting; he’s the new Member Director for Google replacing Lars Bergstrom.
- Paul Lenz, the Foundation’s Director of Finance & Funding, announced he’s planning to retire at the end of September. The Foundation is considering creating a slightly different role on the senior management team and will be getting feedback from project leadership before starting the recruitment process.
- The Foundation presented the 2025 budget, which was a “business as usual” budget without any large changes from previous years. The board approved the budget.
- Gracie announced the Foundation is planning on increasing its social media presence on Mastodon and Bluesky in the near future (now complete!)
- RustConf 2025’s location and dates were announced, and the RustConf team is looking at non-US venues for RustConf 2026.
- Project Director Ryan Levick was elected Vice Chair of the Board. Congrats, Ryan!
As always, if you have any comments, questions, or suggestions, please email all of the project directors via project-directors at rust-lang.org or join us in the #foundation channel on the Rust Zulip.
