Announcement: Ashley Williams joining the Core Team and taking lead of the Community Team

I’m pleased to announce that Ashley Williams (@ag_dubs) will be taking over my role as the Community Team lead and my position on the Core Team since I will be soon going on paternity leave.

Ashley has already had a large impact on the Community Team. She has extensive experience in community education and organization. She joined the community team in July 2017, after spending the previous year reenergizing the RustBridge program; creating a new website and curriculum and running multiple events in multiple countries over the course of 12 months. Much of her skill in this area comes from her experience founding and leading the Nodetogether program for the Node.js community in 2016.

Outside of Rust, Ashley is also part of the Node.js and npm leadership. She sits on the Node.js Board of Directors and is on the Node.js Community Committee. She currently is employed as a services engineer at npm, the package manager for javascript. Notably, she successfully encouraged the company to begin using Rust, and spends at least part of her regular week writing production Rust. (To find out more- check out her talk from RustFest Kyiv 2017!)

As Community Team lead, Ashley hopes to grow the Community Team leadership structure and scope through better project management and tracking. As part of this, she intends to improve communication, transparency, and discovery both within the team and Rust leadership, as well as with the broader Rust community.

As a member of the Core Team, she will be focusing on bridging the JavaScript and Rust communities, including technical work to better integrate Rust with WebAssembly and npm, and improving Cargo by incorporating best practices from npm.

I’m thrilled to have her take over, and can’t wait to help her achieve her vision when I’m back from my leave.