Project Director Update — July 2025

This is the sixth blog post in the series started December 2024 where us Rust Foundation Project Directors share the highlights from previous months’ Rust Foundation Board meeting(s). You may have noticed that the last time I posted was April and it is now July! I forgot to post in May for April’s meeting, then May’s board meeting was cancelled due to RustNL/Rust Week. So this post will cover April’s meeting and June’s meeting; apologies for my tardiness.

April meeting highlights include:

• The Foundation proposed raising Platinum Member fees, for a future board vote.
• Ferrous Systems donated the Ferrocene Language Specification to the Rust Project.
• The RustConf 2025 CFP was opened, and discussions on a venue for RustConf 2026 were in progress.

June meeting highlights include:

• The Foundation has published a position statement on Rust and AI.
• The Foundation will be gathering input from the Rust Project to inform the Foundation’s strategy for 2026-28.
• The Foundation secured continued funding from Alpha-Omega and the Sovereign Tech Agency, but general economic uncertainty has caused some Silver members to choose not to renew,. The Foundation is always looking for more member companies!
• The Board voted to approve an increase in the Platinum Member fees from $300,000/year to $325,000/year.
  

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.