Didn't know about this. I'll have to see if I can stay involved with some sort of project--the problem is that, currently, the one I was doing is...well...done.
I don't want to leave the Rust ecosystem, and I'd kill to keep working in it. But I didn't realize that there was any source of general funding from Mozilla specifically targeted at Rust. This whole thing was done simply because I'm bored and had a lot of free time and also we thought it would only take a few weeks. Money was far from the motivation initially, but certainly it occurred to me later on that it's amazing for the resume.
"the Mozilla Rust team awards contracts, grants and internships more directly. We haven't tended to make a lot of fanfare around these in the past, but the general strategy has been to support people who have been doing amazing volunteer work so that they can do that work full time for a stretch. That's covered work from eddyb on the compiler, Integer 32 on crates.io and Rust training, dtolnay on Serde and other library work, jseyfried on the new macro system, carllerche on mio and Tokio, and withoutboats on a variety of topics -- and that's all this year! Beyond that, we have academic grants for research into Rust for HPC (really large-scale servers/clusters), and foundational work around the unsafe guidelines/formal semantics for Rust."
"In general we have a preference toward supporting people who are already doing great work in the ecosystem, rather than continually expanding the internal Mozilla team. We want Rust to grow and find support far beyond Mozilla, and this is one way of nudging things in that direction, while bolstering the ecosystem at the same time."
"While we've awarded almost all of our contracting money for this year, please feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] if you have interest in small (~3 months) contract work to help push a piece of the Rust ecosystem (or tooling, or docs, or ...) over the finish line."