# Announcing our first Maintainers in Residence

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Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/26/announcing-our-first-maintainers-in-residence/>)

Author: Lori Lorusso, Jakub Beránek

Published: 2026-08-26T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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## AI overview

The Rust Project announces its first Maintainers in Residence and Maintainer Grant recipients, with funding for at least 12 months through the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund. The article explains the program's support categories, selection process, and focus on strengthening critically underfunded, high-impact Rust teams.

## Source excerpt

We are very happy to announce the Rust Project's first round of Maintainers in Residence: Gen Li (@rami3l), Chris Denton (@ChrisDenton), Alejandra González (@blyxyas), León Liehr (@fmease), and Maintainer Grant recipients: Jason Newcomb (@Jarcho) and Jonas Böttiger (@joboet). These contributors will be funded for their rust-lang maintenance activities for (at least) the following 12 months! The funding of the Maintainer in Residence (MiR) and Maintainer Grantee roles is possible thanks to generous donations to the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund (RFMF) from Google, AWS, OpenAI, the Rust Project Leadership Council and also individual sponsors. We also want to thank the people who advocated for maintainer funding within their companies; Tyler Mandry from Google, Niko Matsakis and Jess Izen from AWS and Predrag Gruevski from OpenAI, and also the whole Rust Leadership Council and our funding advisors. If you would like to help us support even more Rust contributors, consider donating to RFMF. The Rust Foundation has published a press release and a blog post, where you can learn more about the sponsors and the supported contributors. Read more below to learn about the MiR program, how we chose the funded contributors, and of course who they are! Background The Maintainer in Residence program, established in RFC 3931, is designed to provide stable financial support for Rust contributors, so that they can truly focus on crucial maintenance activities. Currently, there are three categories of support that we offer: Full-time MiR: funded for 5 days/week of Rust Project work Half-time MiR: funded for ~2.5 days/week of Rust Project work Maintainer Grant: funded for ~1 day/week of Rust Project work Funding for this program comes from the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund, which was launched recently, and the whole program is managed by the Rust Funding team. When deciding who to fund, we took a systematic approach. First, we looked at Rust teams to understand their maintenance