The Rust language gets a foundation

The newly formed Rust Foundation has announcedits existence. "Today, on behalf of the Rust Core team, I'mexcited to announce the Rust Foundation, a new independent non-profitorganization to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem, with aunique focus on supporting the set of maintainers that govern and developthe project. The Rust Foundation will hold its first board meetingtomorrow, February 9th, at 4pm CT. The board of directors is composed of 5directors from our Founding member companies, AWS, Huawei, Google,Microsoft, and Mozilla, as well as 5 directors from project leadership, 2representing the Core Team, as well as 3 project areas: Reliability,Quality, and Collaboration." Mozilla has transferred its trademarksand domains for Rust over to the foundation.