Announce the RFMF

Author: oli-obk

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+title = "Rust Foundation Maintainer Fund Announcement"
+authors = ["leadership-council", "rfmf-design-committee"]
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+We've established the *Rust Foundation Maintainer Fund* (RFMF)!
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+Concretely this means we've come up with a single system for taking in funds from large sponsors as well as individual sponsors, and directing those funds *exclusively* to maintainers.
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+We're funding maintainers via the following three means:
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+* the existing program management program,
+* the proposed [Project Grants program], which provides modest stipends to recognize and support existing contributors, and
+* the new (established just for the RFMF) Maintainer in Residence program.
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+The Maintainer in Residence program is dedicated to hiring long-term maintainers and funding their maintenance work in full. Maintainers' in Residence time is split between priorities guided by the teams they are supporting and priorities of their own choosing within the project.
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+Selecting Maintainers in Residence is a collaboration between the Foundation and a "Funding team" appointed by the Leadership Council. This Funding team will weigh the set of applications against the project's needs and priorities.
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+The Funding team is additionally charged with ensuring the program's overall success. When sponsors contribute undirected funding, they are investing in the Rust project as a whole — and the project should meet them in good faith. Project teams receiving support from the program are expected to help the Funding team manage sponsor relations, e.g., by meeting with sponsors or providing other reasonable sponsor benefits.
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+Thanks to Josh Triplett, Jakub Beránek, lcnr, Lori Lorusso, Niko Matsakis and Tyler Mandry for driving the discussion, soliciting ideas and feedback, and writing the [RFC]
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+## How to contribute funds
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+https://rustfoundation.org/project-support/
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+TODO
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+## How to apply
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+The Maintainer in Residence program is established for existing maintainers. 
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+TODO
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+[RFC]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3931
+[Project Grants program]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3919