Cross-posted from Carol Nichols and David Wood’s post on the Inside Rust Blog. New year, new Foundation Board Meeting recaps! Yes, it is February now, but this is the update we meant to post in January covering the Rust Foundation board meeting that happened on December 9, 2025. Read the full minutes…

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The Rust Foundation's December 2025 board meeting covered strategic goals for 2026-2028, infrastructure challenges with crates.io AWS costs, engineering progress including GitLab Trusted Publishing beta and vulnerability scanning RFC, early RustConf 2026 planning with visa letters and CFP now live, and a shift in training program focus toward accrediting existing Rust training providers rather than launching individual courses.

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