Rust

Foundation

Annual
Report
2022
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Contents
Foreword by Shane Miller: 2021–2022 Board Chair ........................................................................... 3

Mission & Leadership ............................................................................................................................................ 4

Milestones At-a-Glance ....................................................................................................................................... 5

Project Director Spotlight ................................................................................................................................... 6

Member Director Spotlight ................................................................................................................................ 7

Membership Overview ......................................................................................................................................... 8

Spotlight on Members’ Rust Accomplishments ...................................................................................9

Finance Report ....................................................................................................................................................... 10

Summary & Context .................................................................................................................................................... 10

Income, Expenditure, & Surplus Comparison ............................................................................................ 11

Expenditure Breakdown..............................................................................................................................................11

Monetary Donations and Cloud Infrastructure Support ...................................................................... 12

Security Initiative Spotlight ............................................................................................................................. 13

Community Grants Program Spotlight .................................................................................................... 14

Closing Remarks from the Executive Director & CEO .................................................................... 15

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Foreword
The Rust Foundation was created just two throughout the
years ago with an ambitious mission. We’ve year. With the
supported and grown the Rust Project and support of 40
community, while also transitioning them from corporations
a single sponsor to a cross-industry, global at the Rust
collaboration of forty different corporations Foundation,
representing every size and sector. It has Rust
absolutely been a case of “building a plane maintainers
while flying it.” In our first year, we made now have
investments in fundraising and staffing that we access to free
turned into our stable foundational structures cloud compute,
this year. grants for their work and
events, and full time, paid staff for infrastructure
We started 2022 with just one employee:
support and maintenance.
Executive Director and CEO, Dr. Rebecca
Rumbul (‘Bec’), a list of programs we’d funded Despite how much we’ve achieved, we still
but not defined, and many more big ideas about have much more to accomplish in the years
the future of the Rust Foundation. The progress ahead. Scaling our relationships across so
we’ve made since then has been incredible! many stakeholders has been challenging, and
We’re ending year two of the Rust Foundation we will continue investing and experimenting
with a fully operational executive staff whose with improvements to communication and
work has already resulted in the recognition collaboration. We’ll also be making big
of our organization as an industry leader and investments in supplementing the Rust
trusted partner of established corporations and maintainers’ work with support for security,
non-profits. operations, and education that deliver the
stability and accessibility drawing developers to
Government and industry best practices, plans,
the Rust programming language.
and policies for supply chain security included
a focus on Rust in 2022. As we were forming The Rust Foundation has established itself as
our strategy and identity this year, we were the platform for collaboration that creates a
also taking an important seat at the table for great experience for everyone. We are
our community that will create many more building technology and community that will
opportunities for collaboration and growth in outlast us all.
the future.
The Rust community is more than 2 million
developers today – building with nearly
100,000 crates. The Rust project has more
paid maintainers than ever before, and Rust Shane Miller
conferences are happening around the globe 2021–2022 Rust Foundation Board Chair
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Mission & Leadership

Our Mission is for global computer systems to be more secure, efficient, and performant
through the use of the Rust programming language.
We are dedicated to accomplishing this objective by stewarding the Rust language,
supporting Rust communities worldwide, and investing in present and future Rust talent.

2022 Board of Directors Josh Stone

Rust Project Director, Reliability
Shane Miller
Mark Rousskov
2021–2022 Chair
Rust Project Director & Secretary, Core
Lars Bergstrom
Andy Wafaa
Member Director, Google
Silver Member Representative & Treasurer
Stephen Chin
Member Director, JFrog
Eric Garcia
2022 Foundation Team
Member Director, Meta Rebecca Rumbul
Bobby Holley Executive Director & CEO
Member Director, Mozilla Abi Broom
Peixin Hou Operations Manager
Member Director, Huawei Jan David Nose
Ryan Levick Infrastructure Engineer
Rust Project Director, Core Gracie Gregory
Jane Lusby Director of Communications & Marketing
Rust Project Director, Collaboration Sage Griffin
Tyler Mandry Communities Advocate
Rust Project Director, Quality Joel Marcey
Seth Markle Director of Technology
Member Director, AWS Paul Lenz
Nell Shamrell-Harrington Director of Finance & Fundraising
Member Director, Microsoft
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Milestones At-a-Glance
Since our formation, we have…

Welcomed Received
7 Platinum Members $907,594 USD in cloud
28 Silver Members compute support.
1 Gold Member

Accepted Awarded
$4.58 million USD from our $710k in grants to support
Members & other orgs interested the maintainers governing
in the development of Rust. and building the Rust Project.

Launched Hired
The Community Grants 7 full-time Foundation
Program and awarded $411k team members.
in funding to support Rust maintainers &
community projects as of November 2022.

Hosted
Sponsored
3 virtual Ask-Me-Anything
sessions. 4 Rust community events.

…and we’re just getting started!

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2022 Project Director

Spotlight
Rust Foundation Project Directors serve as the board’s technical advisors and representatives of
the Project. Without the hard work, dedication, and significant investment of time on behalf of the
Project Directors in 2021 & 2022, the Rust Foundation would not have been able to establish itself
as a committed and proactive foundation designed to support the Rust programming language
and the communities of maintainers developing it.
The Rust Foundation would like to thank our 2022 Project Directors for their time, leadership, &
advocacy of the needs and interests of the Rust Project.

Tyler Mandry Mark Rousskov Ryan Levick

Project Board Secretary Project
Director, & Project Director,
Quality Director, Core
Core

Josh Stone Jane Losare-Lusby Additionally, we would

like to thank Florian
Project Project Gilcher for serving
Director, Director, as a Project Director
Reliability Collaboration through February 2022.

Since our inception, the Rust Foundation’s Project Directors have been an integral part of our
ongoing work to positively impact the experiences of Rust community members & maintainers.
As these terms last two years, we’re excited to work with both new and re-elected Project Directors
in 2023.

The Rust Foundation would also like to congratulate the Rust Project and community
for all of their hard work in 2022. To review the major Rust Project developments in 2022,
please visit the official Rust Programming Language Blog at blog.rust-lang.org.
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Member Director Spotlight

Rust Foundation Member Directors sit on our board as active representatives of the Member
organizations that employ them. By fulfilling this necessary leadership role and collaborating with
Rust Foundation Project Directors on a monthly basis, they support the professionalization of the
Rust language and vote on important motions that affect the work carried out by the Foundation.
Without their participation and generous support over the past two years, we would not have been
able to develop, fund, and shape and the important programs described in this report.
The Rust Foundation would like to thank our 2022 Member Directors for their effort, guidance,
& representation of our generous member organizations.

Lars Bergstrom Stephen Chin Eric Garcia

Member Director, Member Director, Member Director,
Google JFrog Meta

Bobby Holley Peixin Hou Seth Markle

Member Director, Member Director, Member Director,
Mozilla Huawei AWS

Nell
Shamrell-
Harrington Andrew Wafaa
Member Director, Treasurer,
Microsoft Silver Member Rep
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2022 Member Overview

Our Members
In 2022, the Rust Foundation was thrilled to call the following organizations our Members:

Platinum Members Gold Members

Shopify

Silver Members
1Password ParaState Foundation
Arm Sentry
Automata Labs SixtyFPS
Dropbox Spectral
Embecosm Tabnine
Ferrous Systems Tag1
Futurewei Technology Techfund
Grafbase Threema
Keyrock Toyota Connected
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult TSY Capital Limited
Knoldus Tweede golf
Mainmatter Watchful
Matter Labs Wyliodrin
Open Source Security, Inc. Zama

We thank our Member organizations for their generous commitment to the advancement of the
Rust programming language and its community.
If your organization is interested in becoming a Rust Foundation Member, please contact us at
[email protected]
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Spotlight on Members’
Rust Accomplishments
Rust Foundation Members Here’s a look at a few of our Members’ recent
demonstrate a commitment Rust accomplishments…
to the Rust programming

“
language’s maintenance,
development, and accessibility We are making big investments in Rust, which powers
to the wider world. Pyrsia, our new open source supply chain security
project. Joining the Rust Foundation is yet another
Our membership structure is
way we can help to grow this amazing language
broken into Platinum, Gold,
ecosystem.”
and Silver tiers – listed in
STEPHEN CHIN, VP OF DEVELOPER
order of investment. Our
RELATIONS @ JFROG (PLATINUM MEMBER)
Members benefit from direct
collaboration with Rust Project
leaders over Foundation-led

“
initiatives, amplification of
their Rust stories on official With 1Password 8, we’re taking an entirely new
Foundation social media approach to [user security solutions], empowered by a
channels, the knowledge that cross-platform core framework written entirely in Rust.
they are directly supporting This core framework contains our business logic, view
the Rust community, and model code, and, most critically, our data
more.
model and secrets management.”
JANE LEWIS, SOFTWARE DEVELOPER @
In addition to supporting the 1PASSWORD (SILVER MEMBER)
work of the Rust Foundation,
many of our Members’

“
engineering teams use Rust
in-production, demonstrating Using Rust for our NTP implementation means that
its utility and versatility daily. the client we build is memory safe. We don’t do many
We regularly promote these allocations, but we can be confident that we’ll have no
Member stories on our official segfaults, buffer overflows or memory leaks ever. The
blog. same is true for anyone building on top of our
implementation.”
FOLKERT DE VRIES, EMBEDDED SOFTWARE
ENGINEER @ TWEEDE GOLF (SILVER MEMBER)

Read more stories about how Rust Foundation Member organizations are using Rust in production
@ foundation.rust-lang.org/news
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2022 Finance Report

Summary & Context
In 2021, we received significant funding In 2022, our team also created important
from founding members and organizations legal and administrative processes, moved
interested in supporting the Community Grants our finance and membership management
Program and we got straight to work sharing services in-house, made use of the generous
the early milestones of the Foundation with the funding we received the year before through
world. the development of new initiatives, expanded
membership, and continued our fundraising
In 2022, we gained a full-time staff, which
efforts to great success.
allowed us to execute on much of the work
that defines our mission. We were able to Thank you to all our Members and supporters
hit the ground running with a number of in 2021 and 2022. Your contributions to the Rust
important initiatives under the direction of Foundation helped us establish ourselves as a
Dr. Rebecca Rumbul — who came aboard as key steward of the Rust language and grow our
Executive Director & CEO in Q4 of 2021. impact to serve the next chapter.

Income, Expenditure, & Surplus Comparison

$3,000,000

Plus another $270,500

Income in grants in the process
$2.819 M of being dispensed for
$2,000,000
Income early 2023.

$2.075 M
Expenses
Surplus $1.932 M

$1,000,000 $1.448 M

Surplus
Expenses
$887k
$626k
$0

2021 2022

Notes: Figures in the report have been rounded up to the nearest thousand. A significant amount of our
2022 surplus will be funding work in 2023.
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2022 Finance Report

Expenditure Breakdown

2021 2022
General Admin
0.8% ($5k) General Admin
4% ($85k)

Marketing & Events

Marketing & Events 13% ($252k)
18.1% ($113k)

Project Infrastructure Support

11% ($205k)

Legal/Professional Fees
8% ($150k)

Project Infrastructure Support

23.4% ($146k)

Legal/Professional Fees
32.3% ($202k)
Payroll
43% ($832k)

Payroll Grants
25.4% ($159k) 21% ($407k)
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2022 Finance Report

Monetary Donations and Cloud
Infrastructure Support
Support of the Rust Foundation is not limited to our members. In fact, the Rust Foundation and the
Rust language benefit tremendously from generous non-member donations and in-kind support,
both of which help us fund a number of critical services and programs such as our cloud compute
expenses, Community Grants Program, and Security Initiative. The figures below do not represent
membership fees.

Since 2021, we have received…

$1.2 million USD in monetary donations & grants from the following organizations:

Cloud infrastructure support with a value of $907,594 USD from the following organizations:

The Rust Foundation would like to express its sincere appreciation to all the organizations that have
supported us over the last two years.
If your organization would like to learn more about making an impact in Rust with monetary or in-
kind donations to the Rust Foundation, please get in touch with us at [email protected]
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Security Initiative
Spotlight
In 2022, the Rust Foundation The support we received for our
has received over $460k USD Security Initiative in 2022 has
in funding from the OpenSSF’s enabled us to begin the hiring
Alpha-Omega project & in-kind process for a dedicated, full-time
support from Rust Foundation Security Engineer, plus work
Platinum Member JFrog in service with JFrog’s in-house Security
of our new Security Initiative. Researchers.

The Rust Foundation Security Engineer will We believe that this funding will provide timely
work closely with Rust Project leadership to and critical security support to help meet
help conduct a Rust language security audit the growing popularity and demand for Rust,
and threat model, identify areas for security ensuring that Rust continues to deliver on its
improvement within the Rust Project, and help promises to be secure, safe and sustainable.
define best security practices.
Thank you to AWS, OpenSSF Alpha-Omega,
Thanks to the support we received for the & JFrog for their generous support of security
Security Initiative in 2022, we expect to hire within the Rust ecosystem!
1–2 full-time engineering team members
to support this important work in 2023 and
beyond.
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Community Grants
Program Spotlight
The Community Grants Program is a
cornerstone initiative at the Rust Foundation
with goals of providing financial and practical
support for existing talent in the Rust
ecosystem, growing the impact of the work of
maintainers, and creating wider opportunities
for those passionate about Rust.
We launched the Community Grants Program
in 2022 and received a budget of $671K USD,
thanks to support from AWS, Huawei, Google,
and a number of additional donations by other
“As a Rust Foundation grantee, I’ve
been able to pour more time into the
Rust ecosystem, which has boosted
my confidence and made me fall even
more in love with the language […]
generous organizations.
The Community Grants Program feels
For our 2022 Community Grants Program cycle, like home.”
the Rust Foundation received 215 applications OĞUZ AĞCAYAZI
across both rounds with a 55% increase in (RUST FOUNDATION FELLOW)
applications to the second round. We awarded
a total of 20 Fellowships, 19 Project Grants,
2 Hardship Grants, and 2 Event Support Grants.
The grants we have awarded thus far total
$411K USD. After a second Project Grants
application round in October 2022, we were
able to allocate the remaining funds we
received to support this program. 2023 Project
Grants will be announced in January.

To learn more about the Community Grants Program, our grantees, and how you can support the
program, please visit foundation.rust-lang.org/grants
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Closing Remarks
Looking back over the last year, I am delighted community of
and humbled by how much the Rust Foundation Rust users,
has achieved. contributors
and
We began 2022 with lots of ideas, the support
maintainers.
of a committed and talented Board of Directors,
We want
and a modest budget to get started. With those
to ensure
things, we have created a proactive, well-
that the
resourced and ambitious organization capable
right support
of developing impactful programs, supporting
structures and
Rust’s critical infrastructure, and investing in the
resources are in place
Rust communities around the world. In 2023,
to facilitate Rust’s growing
we hope to consolidate our work in key existing
popularity.
areas, iterate on programs that have gone well,
and innovate in supporting new streams of work I am excited for our program of work for 2023,
in support of the Rust language and landscape. and look forward to working with all of our
amazing partners to deliver more good things
Security in OSS has become a prominent
for Rust!
global concern, and our work in securing
Rust next year will be amplified through the Thank you for helping us make this year at the
Security Initiative. We also have the challenge Rust Foundation a success!
of supporting a steadily growing global

Rebecca Rumbul
Executive Director & CEO of the Rust Foundation
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