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Open Source Security · July 6 · 32 min

Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund with Lori and Niko

Josh chats with Lori Lorusso and Niko Matsakis about the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund. This is a new project the Rust Foundation has create to help fund Rust maintainers. It's a great discussion where Lori and Niko cover all the ways they expect to fund the maintainers which is never as easy as one initially expects. Funding open source is a huge topic right now, it sounds like the Rust Foundation has some great ideas. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-07-rfmf-lori-niko

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Josh chats with Lori Lorusso and Niko Matsakis about the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund. This is a new project the Rust Foundation has create to help fund Rust maintainers. It's a great discussion where Lori and Niko cover all the ways they expect to fund the maintainers which is never as easy as one initially expects. Funding open source is a huge topic right now, it sounds like the Rust Foundation has some great ideas.

The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-07-rfmf-lori-niko

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