The Rust Foundation announced today the creation of the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund as a new means of providing consistent, transparent, and long-term support for developers that make the Rust programming language possible.

The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund was announced today but it will take the coming months for them to define the fund’s structure, secure actual contributions, and work with the Rust project for making it a reality. The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund is motivated in part to help with open-source sustainability and acknowledging the resource gaps that often exist by open-source projects/developers.

The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund is about the developers that work toward advancing the Rust programming language itself and not to be confused with just downstream open-source projects using Rust. Transparency is going to be a key focus for the effort.

The Rust Foundation wrote in today’s announcement:

“Our goal is simple: to help the people building Rust continue their essential work with the support they deserve. That means creating the conditions for long term maintainer roles and ensuring continuity for those whose efforts keep the language stable and evolving. Through the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund, we aim to address these needs directly.”

More details on this new fund at RustFoundation.org.