Alice Ryhl

but you don't necessarily go to every single meeting.

Like there's no checkbox for you on an FTP, so you can still file a concern.

So yeah, it's really a way to participate in or help the language team without full membership.

And full membership might entail a lot of things, right?

For example, for me, it would entail going to meetings every Wednesday evening instead of like when I would normally have dinner.

I would say here that the Linux kernel is truly unique in this particular aspect, in that they have thousands of contributors.

Doing it on work time.

I actually think that the Rust project is doing pretty well at having people do it and get paid for it by their employer.

But it's nowhere near to the same extent as the Linux kernel.

The Rust project also has a few other interesting things.

So the Rust Foundation have some grants that allow...

I mean, for example, if you're a student and you want to work on something, you might be able to get a grant, some money from the Rust Foundation.

I think that's a super cool thing that the foundation is doing.

I mean, obviously you can go to the issue tracker and look for issues that interest you.

I think that often it's, I mean, the best way to contribute something is if you have something you want to change about it.

I think that's often a pretty good starting point.

So if you wanted to contribute to the Rust language itself, Rust does a lot of its stuff on something called Zulip, which is a chat server where people talk and you could go there and talk to people.

So the Rust for Linux project has a pretty nice contributing page.

So rustforlinux.com, and there's a contributing page there.

For one, there are a few different drivers you might be able to contribute to, and they have links to the issue tracker there.