Concordium’s DevX Initiative Launches Rust Maintainers Sponsorship Program

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Concordium’s DevX Initiative Launches Rust Maintainers Sponsorship Program

October 21, 2021·3 min read

ZUG, SWITZERLAND / ACCESSWIRE /October 21, 2021 / The DevX Initiative by Concordium is thrilled to announce the launch of its Rust Ecosystem Sponsorship Program to help address one of the biggest challenges many Open Source communities face: the support of maintainers.

Concordium believes it is essential to support work within Rust that helps keep the ecosystem running, including maintenance, review, organization and coordination.

The Concordium Foundation has given an initial endowment of $100,000 to the DevX Initiative to distribute throughout the Rust Ecosystem.

Through the Sponsorship Program, Concordium aims to fund developers whose efforts are critical to the Rust project but who are not currently being paid to work on Rust full-time. The DevX Initiative takes its lead from examples set by Embark Studios, Discord, Fly.io and Ockam.

"It is essential that those who choose to maintain Rust feel empowered and supported by the commercial stakeholders who benefit the most from their work," said Ernest Kissiedu, who co-created the DevX Initiative with Concordium's chief marketing officer Beni Issembert.

The DevX Initiative was launched with the mandate to contribute to the Rust Ecosystem holistically by aligning with the Rust Project's core goal of empowerment. It began life within Concordium to reshape the relationship between commercial entities and developers in Open Source communities.

Sponsoring Josh Triplett from the Rust Language Team

The DevX Initiative by Concordium is excited to announce it will be sponsoring Josh Triplett from the Rust Language Team. He will help guide the sponsorship program together with Ernest Kissiedu from Rust London and Mara Bos, the lead of the Rust Library team. There will be additional members from the Rust ecosystem added to this team to help steer the sponsorship program as it grows.

The DevX Initiative will support Josh in his work as the co-lead of the Rust language team and his work on the Library and Cargo teams.