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| * the proposed [Project Grants program], which provides modest stipends to recognize and support existing contributors, and |
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Remove "This includes"
Currently the Rust Project has allocated parts of the Project Priorities budget to fund program management, travel requests, Outreachy, the content team, and the proposed Project Grants Program. The RFMF are funds completely outside of the Project Priorities budget.
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The RFMF are funds completely outside of the Project Priorities budget
What do you mean? See https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3931/changes#diff-7067f2fbc93408343a6ef705a7691d2d2a56942c44c70f866f067db889b5d9d7R10
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I changed it up a little to leave some ambiguity
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I think that there is some naming ambiguity in "Project Priorities Budget". Right now, the PPB is essentially money set aside from RF to LC to spend on whatever LC wants. The RFMF RFC proposed that RFMF funds will be going into PPB, and they should primarily be spend on Maintainers in Residence.
But this is an implementation detail that has yet to be discussed with RF, I guess.
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This has not yet been determined and I don't think we should combine the RFMF with the Grants Program in this post as they are separate budgets - even though they selection will be done by the Funding Team. Should we say something like: Stay tuned for information on how to apply for selection as an RFMF MiR.
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I took some text from the RFC, is that better?
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| We've established the *Rust Foundation Maintainer Fund* (RFMF)! |
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This will need some rewording to make it clearer how it is related to the earlier RF announcement, and who is "we" :)
Something like:
Last year, the Rust Foundation has [announced](https://rustfoundation.org/media/announcing-the-rust-foundation-maintainers-fund) a plan to create the Rust Foundation Maintainer Fund (RFMF), designed to support maintainers who develop Rust. Since then, the Rust Project has worked closely with the Rust Foundation to figure out the workings of this fund, and the result is an [RFC](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3931) that has been recently accepted and merged.
We designed a unified system for taking in funds from both individual sponsors and companies and directing those funds *exclusively* to Rust maintainers.
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| Concretely this means we've come up with a single system for taking in funds from large sponsors as well as individual sponsors, and directing those funds *exclusively* to maintainers. | ||
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| We're funding maintainers via the following three means: |
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I would focus exclusively on MiR in this post, the Project Grants program is still in flux, and it's confusing enough already what's the relation between RFMF/MiR/PPB/Grants/...
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| RFMF sponsors typically contribute to a general fund and don't direct where the money goes or who gets hired. | ||
| Every contribution helps fund the sustained maintenance that keeps Rust healthy. | ||
| All sponsors receive public recognition and visibility into how funds are being used through regular public reports. |
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How do we ensure public recognition? Having their GH profile picture in the sponsors list on GitHub?
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general discussion in #funding > announcement blog post @ 💬
please actively contribute text to this blog post (if possible just edit it directly, otherwise I'll try to quickly merge any review comments with edits in them)
RFC was at rust-lang/rfcs#3931
Project grants are still unmerged at rust-lang/rfcs#3919
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