From cc17e0ed5eae8d7bfc5011434a07e0554502a750 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Holk Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 11:52:03 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Add post announcing the new Rust Project Directors --- ...nouncing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md | 37 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) create mode 100644 posts/2023-10-18-announcing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md diff --git a/posts/2023-10-18-announcing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md b/posts/2023-10-18-announcing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2d114af10 --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/2023-10-18-announcing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: "Announcing the New Rust Project Directors" +author: Leadership Council +team: Leadership Council +--- + +We are happy to announce that we have completed the process to elect new Project Directors. + +The new Project Directors are: + +* [Scott McMurray](https://github.com/scottmcm) +* [Jakob Degen](https://github.com/JakobDegen) +* [Santiago Pastorino](https://github.com/spastorino) + +These will join [Ryan Levick] and [Mark Rousskov] to make up the five members of the Rust Foundation Board of Directors who represent the Rust Project. +The board is made up Project Directors, who come from and represent the Rust Project, and Member Directors who represent the corporate members of the Rust Foundation. +These groups of Directors each, as a block, have equal voting power. + +[Ryan Levick]: https://github.com/rylev +[Mark Rousskov]: https://github.com/mark-simulacrum + +We look forward to working with and being represented by this new suite of project directors. +We were fortunate to have a number of excellent candidates and this was a difficult decision. +We wish to express our gratitude to all of the candidates who were considered for this role! +We also extend our thanks to the project as a whole who participated by nominating candidates and providing additional feedback once the nominees were published. +Finally, we want to share our appreciation for the [Project Director Elections Subcommittee][pde-subcommittee] for working to design and facilitate running this election process. + +[pde-subcommittee]: https://github.com/rust-lang/leadership-council/blob/main/committees/project-director-election-process.md + +As with any decision like this, this was a challenging decision for a number of reasons. +This was also our first time doing this process and we learned a lot to use to improve it going forward. +The [Project Director Elections Subcommittee][pde-subcommittee] will be following up with a retrospective outlining how well we achieved our goals with this process and making suggestions for future elections. +We are expecting another election next year to start a rotating cadence of 2-year terms. +Project governance is about iterating and refining over time. + +Once again, we thank all who were involved in this process and we are excited to welcome our new suite of Project Directors. From 170b5361851fd69cdbf3a8759e01fd68d27f14d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Holk Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:02:11 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Apply suggestions from code review Co-authored-by: Josh Gould --- .../2023-10-18-announcing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/posts/2023-10-18-announcing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md b/posts/2023-10-18-announcing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md index 2d114af10..26f2af1fa 100644 --- a/posts/2023-10-18-announcing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md +++ b/posts/2023-10-18-announcing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md @@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ The new Project Directors are: * [Jakob Degen](https://github.com/JakobDegen) * [Santiago Pastorino](https://github.com/spastorino) -These will join [Ryan Levick] and [Mark Rousskov] to make up the five members of the Rust Foundation Board of Directors who represent the Rust Project. +They will join [Ryan Levick] and [Mark Rousskov] to make up the five members of the Rust Foundation Board of Directors who represent the Rust Project. + The board is made up Project Directors, who come from and represent the Rust Project, and Member Directors who represent the corporate members of the Rust Foundation. These groups of Directors each, as a block, have equal voting power. @@ -28,7 +29,8 @@ Finally, we want to share our appreciation for the [Project Director Elections S [pde-subcommittee]: https://github.com/rust-lang/leadership-council/blob/main/committees/project-director-election-process.md -As with any decision like this, this was a challenging decision for a number of reasons. +This was a challenging decision for a number of reasons. + This was also our first time doing this process and we learned a lot to use to improve it going forward. The [Project Director Elections Subcommittee][pde-subcommittee] will be following up with a retrospective outlining how well we achieved our goals with this process and making suggestions for future elections. We are expecting another election next year to start a rotating cadence of 2-year terms. From 1b49ec372550a961e81c2900126b8ad4b8f85843 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Holk Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:05:19 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Apply suggestions from code review Co-authored-by: Josh Gould --- ...10-18-announcing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/posts/2023-10-18-announcing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md b/posts/2023-10-18-announcing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md index 26f2af1fa..e085a861d 100644 --- a/posts/2023-10-18-announcing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md +++ b/posts/2023-10-18-announcing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md @@ -15,13 +15,15 @@ The new Project Directors are: They will join [Ryan Levick] and [Mark Rousskov] to make up the five members of the Rust Foundation Board of Directors who represent the Rust Project. -The board is made up Project Directors, who come from and represent the Rust Project, and Member Directors who represent the corporate members of the Rust Foundation. -These groups of Directors each, as a block, have equal voting power. +The board is made up of Project Directors, who come from and represent the Rust Project, and Member Directors, who represent the corporate members of the Rust Foundation. + +Both of these director groups have equal voting power. [Ryan Levick]: https://github.com/rylev [Mark Rousskov]: https://github.com/mark-simulacrum -We look forward to working with and being represented by this new suite of project directors. +We look forward to working with and being represented by this new group of project directors. + We were fortunate to have a number of excellent candidates and this was a difficult decision. We wish to express our gratitude to all of the candidates who were considered for this role! We also extend our thanks to the project as a whole who participated by nominating candidates and providing additional feedback once the nominees were published. @@ -36,4 +38,5 @@ The [Project Director Elections Subcommittee][pde-subcommittee] will be followin We are expecting another election next year to start a rotating cadence of 2-year terms. Project governance is about iterating and refining over time. -Once again, we thank all who were involved in this process and we are excited to welcome our new suite of Project Directors. +Once again, we thank all who were involved in this process and we are excited to welcome our new Project Directors. + From 4ea1f460c90a49fec6a498381b108b7ed36ed494 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Holk Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:02:21 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Update publication date --- ...md => 2023-10-19-announcing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md} | 0 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) rename posts/{2023-10-18-announcing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md => 2023-10-19-announcing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md} (100%) diff --git a/posts/2023-10-18-announcing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md b/posts/2023-10-19-announcing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md similarity index 100% rename from posts/2023-10-18-announcing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md rename to posts/2023-10-19-announcing-the-new-rust-project-directors.md