Merge pull request #165 from rust-embedded/ninth-newsletter

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Author: jamesmunns

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+# The Embedded Working Group Newsletter - 9
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+> 2018-08-12
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+This is the eighth newsletter of the [Embedded WG] where we highlight new progress, celebrate cool projects, thank the community, and advertise projects that need help!
+
+If you want to mention something in [the next newsletter], make sure to leave a comment on the issue.
+
+[the next newsletter]: https://github.com/rust-embedded/wg/issues/164
+[Embedded WG]: https://github.com/rust-embedded/wg
+
+## Highlights
+
+* The Embedded Working Group has moved! You can find our new coordination repo at [rust-embedded/wg] on GitHub, and crates maintained by the working group in the [rust-embedded] organization
+* The Embedded Working Group has grown! We are now 18 people grouped in the following 6 teams to allow for better focus on these topics:
+    * The **Cortex-M** team develops and maintains the core of the Cortex-M crate ecosystem
+    * The **HAL team** develops and maintains crates that ease the development of Hardware Abstraction Layers, Board Support Crates and drivers
+    * The **MS430 team** develops and maintains the core of the MSP430 crate ecosystem
+    * The **RISCV team** develops and maintains the core of the RISCV crate ecosystem
+    * The **Resources team** develops, maintains and curates resources on embedded Rust
+    * The **Tools team** maintains and develops core embedded tools
+
+[rust-embedded/wg]: https://github.com/rust-embedded/wg
+[rust-embedded]: https://github.com/rust-embedded
+
+## Embedded Projects
+
+If you have an embedded project or blog post you would like to have featured in the Embedded WG Newsletter, make sure to mention it on the tracking issue for [the next newsletter], we would love to show it off!
+
+* [rust-lang/rust#52787] has landed, adding support in `nightly` for the RISC-V architecture as a bare-metal target!
+
+[rust-lang/rust#52787]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/52787
+
+### `embedded-hal` Ecosystem Crates
+
+As part of the [Weekly Driver Initiative], crates that are part of the `embedded-hal` ecosystem are now tracked in the [Awesome Embedded Rust] repository. Here is a current snapshot of what is available there:
+
+| Type                      | Status    | Count | Diff |
+| :---                      | :-----    | :---- | :--- |
+| [Device Crates]           | released  | 14    | 0    |
+| [HAL Impl Crates]         | released  | 11    | 0    |
+| [Board Support Crates]    | released  | 9     | +1   |
+| [Driver Crates Released]  | released  | 11    | 0    |
+| [Driver Crates WIP]       | WIP       | 38    | +3   |
+| [no-std crates]           | released  | 12    | 0    |
+
+[Awesome Embedded Rust]: https://github.com/rust-embedded/awesome-embedded-rust
+[Weekly Driver Initiative]: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/embedded-wg/issues/39
+[Device Crates]: https://github.com/rust-embedded/awesome-embedded-rust#device-crates
+[HAL Impl Crates]: https://github.com/rust-embedded/awesome-embedded-rust#hal-implementation-crates
+[Board Support Crates]: https://github.com/rust-embedded/awesome-embedded-rust#board-support-crates
+[Driver Crates Released]: https://github.com/rust-embedded/awesome-embedded-rust#driver-crates
+[Driver Crates WIP]: https://github.com/rust-embedded/awesome-embedded-rust#wip
+[no-std crates]: https://github.com/rust-embedded/awesome-embedded-rust#no-std-crates
+
+## Help Wanted
+
+* We're considering changing to LLD as the default linker for `thumb` targets. Check out the RFC at [rust-embedded/wg#160], and let us know what you think
+
+[rust-embedded/wg#160]: https://github.com/rust-embedded/wg/issues/160