---
title: Council meeting 2025-02-28
tags: ["council", "triage-meeting", "minutes"]
date: 2025-02-28
discussion: https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/392734-council/topic/Meeting.202025-02-28
agenda-url: https://hackmd.io/pMKniBduTD-gALTlRO5Giw
---
# Council meeting agenda
- Meeting date: 2025-02-28
## Attendance
- Council members:
- Observers:
## Meeting roles
- Facilitator:
- Minutes:
## Check-in
(Not minuted.)
## Consent to agenda
Do we have consensus to move forward with this agenda?
## Announcements or custom items
(Meeting attendees, feel free to add items here!)
## Nominated issues
### "Guests to invite to the all-hands" leadership-council#158
- **Link:** https://github.com/rust-lang/leadership-council/issues/158
- **Labels:** T-leadership-council, P-urgent, I-council-nominated
TC: Mara asks:
> We invited the project goal (task) owners. (Most of them were already project members, but 12 were not.)
>
> Two things to discuss:
>
> * Who else do we invite? (Accept nominations from project members, first come first served?)
> * Do we open up the travel grant programme for the invited guests (who are not project members)?
What do we think?
### "Discuss Rust Society proposal" leadership-council#159
- **Link:** https://github.com/rust-lang/leadership-council/issues/159
- **Labels:** T-leadership-council, I-council-nominated
TC: James has a proposal for a Rust Society:
https://gist.github.com/jamesmunns/cb93f9577a4c99d7f5f319bb22b4a28f
Let's discuss. What do we think?
### "Update on 2025Q1 council elections" leadership-council#160
- **Link:** https://github.com/rust-lang/leadership-council/issues/160
- **Labels:** T-leadership-council, I-council-nominated
TC: We need to manage the reelection of three seats for the council, the ones for:
- T-compiler
- T-devtools
- T-launching-pad
We announced this here:
<https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2025/02/14/leadership-council-repr-selection.html>
Are there any updates or further asks for the council?
### "Update on program management program" leadership-council#161
- **Link:** https://github.com/rust-lang/leadership-council/issues/161
- **Labels:** T-leadership-council, I-council-nominated
TC: We're allocating budget in support of program management for Rust.
- https://github.com/rust-lang/leadership-council/issues/151
This is an update on the progress of the program.
We talked with Bec, Abi, Paul, and Joel at the Foundation this week about logistics and budgeting.
### "GPU working group" leadership-council#155
- **Link:** https://github.com/rust-lang/leadership-council/issues/155
- **Labels:** I-council-nominated
### "[launching-pad] Find a home for the Security Response WG" leadership-council#141
- **Link:** https://github.com/rust-lang/leadership-council/issues/141
- **Labels:** A-teams, I-council-nominated
### "Document and improve processes for interaction with the Rust Foundation" leadership-council#41
- **Link:** https://github.com/rust-lang/leadership-council/issues/41
- **Labels:** S-active, A-foundation, P-high, I-council-nominated
### "Establish team charters" leadership-council#44
- **Link:** https://github.com/rust-lang/leadership-council/issues/44
- **Labels:** S-active, A-project-structure, I-council-nominated
## P-high issues
### "Review and organize overall project team structure" leadership-council#33
- **Link:** https://github.com/rust-lang/leadership-council/issues/33
- **Labels:** S-active, P-high, A-project-structure
## Issues that need a council decision
### "Figure out a strategy for licensing considerations" leadership-council#24
- **Link:** https://github.com/rust-lang/leadership-council/issues/24
- **Labels:** S-needs-decision, A-legal
## Active issues
### "Document the council's internal decision making process" leadership-council#31
- **Link:** https://github.com/rust-lang/leadership-council/issues/31
- **Labels:** S-active
### "Find homes for launching pad teams" leadership-council#118
- **Link:** https://github.com/rust-lang/leadership-council/issues/118
- **Labels:** S-active, A-teams, A-project-structure
## Pending PRs on the leadership-council repo
### "Allow messages from observers during meetings" leadership-council#110
- **Link:** https://github.com/rust-lang/leadership-council/pull/110
- **Labels:** T-leadership-council
## Call for clarifications
Should any points discussed in the meeting be clarified?
## Check-out
(Not minuted.)