Grant proposals for 2024-2025

[ehuss]

I would like to direct a portion of the Council's budget to fund additional grants to Rust contributors. The budget for the Fellowship Grants did not cover as many people as we would have liked.

We have four candidates that we would like to fund at $20,000 over 12 months as "Project Grants". This will come out of the $150,000 unreserved Council budget from 2024. We'll need to finalize the exact structure with the Foundation, but we are likely looking at it structured as an initial payment plus a mid-point payment contingent on how things are going (payments are unrestricted, no separate travel/hardware budget). This is also contingent on the candidates accepting the grants.

@Mark-Simulacrum and @jamesmunns and Paul Lenz have reviewed these candidates and agree that we would like to extend the grants to them.

I would like to ask the council to approve the proposed $80,000 for these grants.

Time: ~10 minutes

[ehuss]

@rfcbot fcp merge

Proposing to approve this.

[rfcbot]

Team member @ehuss has proposed to merge this. The next step is review by the rest of the tagged team members:

• [x] @Mark-Simulacrum
• [x] @eholk
• [x] @ehuss
• [x] @jamesmunns
• [ ] @m-ou-se
• [x] @oli-obk
• [x] @traviscross

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[eholk]

Do we have a list of the four proposed grants somewhere?

[jamesmunns]

@eholk not public, as we haven't confirmed with the people whether they would like to accept. @ehuss can probably invite you to the doc shared with me and Mark

[rfcbot]

:bell: This is now entering its final comment period, as per the review above. :bell:

[traviscross]

@rfcbot reviewed