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Hello World! The Rust Foundation — Rust Foundation

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Key
rust-foundation-announcement-2021
Issued
2021-2-8
Type
webpage
Publisher
Rust Foundation
Raw CSL JSON
{
  "URL": "https://foundation.rust-lang.org/news/hello-world/",
  "type": "webpage",
  "title": "Hello World! The Rust Foundation",
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2021,
        2,
        8
      ]
    ]
  },
  "accessed": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2026,
        3,
        6
      ]
    ]
  },
  "publisher": "Rust Foundation"
}

Claims

  1. The Rust Foundation's board of directors included 5 directors from five founding member companies: AWS, Huawei, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla.
    "The board of directors is composed of 5 directors from our Founding member companies, AWS, Huawei, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, as well as 5 directors from project leadership, 2 representing the Core Team, as well as 3 project areas: Reliability, Quality, and Collaboration."
    Quote language: en
  2. The Rust Foundation was announced on February 8, 2021 as a new independent non-profit organization to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem.
    "Today, on behalf of the Rust Core team, I'm excited to announce the Rust Foundation, a new independent non-profit organization to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem, with a unique focus on supporting the set of maintainers that govern and develop the project."
    Quote language: en
  3. Mozilla transferred all trademark and infrastructure assets, including the crates.io package registry, to the Rust Foundation.
    "Mozilla, the original home of the Rust project, has transferred all trademark and infrastructure assets, including the crates.io package registry, to the Rust Foundation."
    Quote language: en
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