June 2026 Project Director Update

Aug. 17, 2026 · Carol Nichols and David Wood on behalf of Rust Foundation Project Directors

This post covers the Rust Foundation board meeting that took place on June 9, 2026.

Find the full June 2026 minutes on the Foundation's site. Highlights include:

  • Abi Broom brought a draft Donation Acceptance Policy to the board for discussion; us Project Directors provided some feedback and gathered some feedback from the Project.
  • The board discussed whether our current subcommittees were serving us, and we agreed to re-evaluate committee membership after Project Director selections in September.
  • The Foundation has successfully distributed hardware 2FA tokens to all relevant Foundation and Project members to improve infrastructure security.
  • The Foundation staff has started brainstorming possible ideas to fund crates.io sustainably in line with the Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship signed by many open source languages' package registry maintainers. These ideas are targeting heavy corporate usage and will be discussed with the Project and the Board before implementation.
  • teor held a workshop on C++ interop at the All Hands and has been working on a number of other interop projects. There will be updates soon!
  • The August board meeting will be cancelled, and there will be a hybrid in-person and online board meeting at RustConf in September. The Foundation is also running a Team Health Summit the day before RustConf.
  • The Foundation is planning to coordinate with DARPA to gather an evaluation committee for TRACTOR submissions, which is a contest the board agreed for the Foundation to support in 2024. The Foundation staff and Project Directors will be connecting with the Project in Zulip soon to discuss any questions or comments about this initiative prior to DARPA soliciting Project input/evaluator volunteers.
  • The Foundation launched its Trusted Training program with five initial training partners.
  • The Foundation launched the Rust Commercial Network, a community where the companies and organizations running Rust in production work together, and with the Rust Project, to advance Rust adoption. It has since grown to 50 companies and 100 individuals in the network! See Lori Lorusso's blog post for more details.