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+title: "Seeking help for initial Leadership Council initiatives"
+author: Mark Rousskov
+team: the leadership council <https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/leadership-council>
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+Having not heard any significant disagreement with the first set of [proposed priorities],
+we are moving ahead with forming subgroups that will work towards defining and
+completing the work needed to drive these forward. We plan to re-assess
+priorities regularly, but for now these are our main work items (in no
+particular order). We have some initial volunteers who will be pushing these
+initiatives forward, but for all of these we are also looking for support from
+any interested people. Please reach out on Zulip in [#council][#council] if
+you'd like to help out with any of these in some capacity, or to the initial
+volunteers called out here.
+
+* Establishing plans for how to strengthen the moderation team (i.e., 2 is not a sustainable number) and strengthen moderation policies.
+    * [Josh Gould](https://github.com/technetos) is leading, with support from [Eric Holk](https://github.com/eholk). Their top priority is finding additional moderators and forming a contingent moderator team.
+* Figuring out the "shape" of the Rust Project. The Leadership Council needs to reflect the will of the Rust Project so it is important to know who that includes.
+    * [Eric Huss](https://github.com/ehuss) is leading, with support from [Jack Huey](https://github.com/jackh726). They're working on defining the initial set of priorities here now.
+* Documenting and improving processes for interaction with the Rust Foundation including formalising the role of project directors in this process (the trademark policy process may be part of this).
+    * We are looking for someone to help lead this initiative, with support from [Mark Rousskov](https://github.com/Mark-Simulacrum/) and [Ryan Levick](https://github.com/rylev), two of the current  project directors. One of the proposed first concrete deliverables might be working towards a path forward on the trademark issue, using that as a stepping stone to defining broader policies. We're intentionally looking for someone *not* directly involved previously to help give an outside perspective as the lead.
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+Please reach out if you're interested in helping!
+
+[#council]: https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/392734-council
+[proposed priorities]: https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/07/25/leadership-council-update.html