Add Rust Project contributor survey 2025

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+# Survey questions
+
+This survey is organized by the Rust Leadership Council. Its goal is to figure out how much Rust Project contributions/work done by Rust Project members is funded vs. how much is volunteer-based. We want to use the results of this survey to secure more funding sources for Rust Project contributions in the future.
+
+This survey is only aimed at Rust Project members. If you are not a member of any Rust team/working group/project group/etc., please do not fill this survey. It is also primarily aimed at "active" contributors, who made at least some contribution in the past 12 months.
+
+Note that when we ask about contributions in this survey, we always mean contributions to the Rust Project repositories, so essentially any repository under the `rust-lang` GitHub organization, plus any other related organizations, such as `rust-lang-nursery`.
+
+This survey is anonymous. You can optionally choose to answer selected personal questions at the end of the survey.
+
+### When have you started contributing to the Rust Project?
+
+Type: select one (optional)
+
+- During 2025
+- During 2023 or 2024
+- During 2021 or 2022
+- During 2019 or 2020
+- During 2018 or before
+- I did not ever contribute to the Rust Project [`NEXT`](<END>)
+
+### Are you funded for your Rust Project contributions?
+
+Type: select one
+
+- Yes, I am currently funded for (at least some of) my contributions [`NEXT`](#how-much-time-do-you-spend-contributing-to-the-rust-project-monthly)
+- No, but I was funded before [`NEXT`](#why-are-you-not-funded-anymore)
+- No, I never received any funding for them [`NEXT`](#would-you-appreciate-being-paid-for-contributing-to-the-rust-project)
+
+### Why are you not funded anymore?
+
+Type: select all that apply (optional)
+
+- I left an employment that funded my contributions
+- I have been laid off from an employment that funded my contributions
+- A contract that funded my contributions has not been renewed
+- A grant ran out
+- Individual sponsors (e.g. GitHub sponsors) stopped sponsoring me
+- I cannot receive funds anymore due to legislation (e.g. visa or student status) 
+- Other (open response)
+
+### How much time do you spend contributing to the Rust Project monthly?
+
+Estimate how many hours do you spend on Rust Project contributions each month. If this varies wildly, try to provide an average monthly duration over the past 12 months.
+
+This includes all kinds of contributions, such as programming, writing tests or documentation, triaging issues, investigating bugs, discussing on Zulip or GitHub, meetings, doing code reviews, etc. Include also work indirectly related to the Rust Project; for example, if you are employed to work on Rust and attend periodic internal meetings related to your work, this time should also be included. 
+
+Enter the value as an integer, e.g. *50*.
+
+Type: free form (optional)
+
+### How much of your time spent on Rust Project contributions is funded?
+
+Estimate how much of the time that you spend on contributing to the Rust Project is funded. For example, if you spend 20 hours per week contributing, and a company pays you for 10 hours of contributions per week, then approx. 50% of your contribution time is funded.
+
+If you are not funded per-hour, but with a flat rate, attempt to convert the number of received funds to an hourly rate. For example, if you receive $1000 for your Rust Project contributions per month, your normal hourly rate is $100, and you spend 30 hours per month contributing on average, then approx. 33% of your time is funded.
+
+If the ratio changes over time, try to estimate the average ratio over the past 12 months.
+
+Enter the value as an integer percentage, e.g. *50*.
+
+Type: free form (optional)
+
+### How are you funded for your Rust Project contributions?
+
+Please select all sources of funds that paid **for your Rust Project contributions** in the past 12 months.
+
+Type: select all that apply (optional)
+
+- Employment by a company (I'm paid *primarily* to work on the Rust Project)
+- Employment by a company (work on the Rust Project is an irregular or a side part of my job)
+- Contracting for a company (I'm paid *primarily* to work on the Rust Project)
+- Contracting for a company (work on the Rust Project is an irregular or a side part of my job)
+- Individual sponsors (e.g. GitHub sponsors, Patreon, ...)
+- Grants (e.g. Rust Project Grants, Sovereign Tech Fund, ...)
+- Other (open response)
+
+### How long have you been funded for your Rust Project contributions?
+
+If you receive funds for your Rust Project contributions from a stable source, such as a contract or an employment, please tell us how long have you been *continuously* funded for (not necessarily from the same employer/contract).
+
+Type: select one (optional)
+
+- My funding started this year
+- Since 2024
+- Since 2023
+- Since 2022
+- Since 2021
+- Since 2020
+- Since 2019 or before
+
+### When does your contract/employment end?
+
+If you have a contract or if you are employed to work on Rust, please tell us when is your contract/employment ending (even if it might get refreshed for another term).
+
+Type: select one (optional)
+
+- This year (2025)
+- 2026
+- 2027
+- 2028
+- 2029 or later
+- My contract/employment has no end date
+- I don't know
+- Not applicable to my source of funding
+- Other (open response)
+
+### How likely is it that you will lose your funding in the near future?
+
+Type: select one (optional)
+
+- I'm not worried, I'm confident in my funding
+- I'm slightly worried, the situation is uncertain
+- I think that I'm going to lose funding in the near future
+- My funding is definitely ending soon
+- Other (open response)
+
+### Are your contributions directed by your source of funding?
+
+We want to find out whether the entity/entities that pay for your contributions determine what contributions you make.
+
+Type: select one (optional)
+
+- Yes, my source of funding tells me what contributions I should make
+- No, I decide what I will contribute to
+- Other (open response)
+
+### Would you appreciate being paid for contributing to the Rust Project?
+
+Type: select one (optional)
+
+- Receiving more funds would allow me to keep my current level of contributions
+- Receiving more funds would allow me to increase my current level of contributions
+- I am happy with the current funding that I have at the moment
+- I do not require/want any funding for my contributions
+- Other (open response)
+
+### How much money would you like to be paid for contributing to the Rust Project?
+
+What is a minimum **hourly** rate that could comfortably sustain your contributions to the Rust Project, assuming that it would be your only source of funding, and you would be working full-time on Rust?
+
+Note: we ask for a minimum to establish some baseline. Of course, everyone would like to get paid as much as possible :)
+
+Please provide the value as an integer in $USD (US Dollars).
+
+Type: free form (optional)
+
+### Would you potentially like to be included on a public list of contributors looking for funding?
+
+If we ever had something like a public list of Rust Project contributors looking for funding, what would you think of that?
+
+Type: select one (optional)
+
+- That sounds like a good idea, and I would potentially like to be on that list
+- That sounds like a good idea, but I do not want to be on such a list
+- I'm neutral/I don't know
+- That sounds like a bad idea
+- Other (open response)
+
+### What kind of work do you do within the Rust Project?
+
+Type: select all that apply (optional)
+
+- Documentation
+- Code Review (PRs)
+- Submitting rollups
+- Design Review (RFCs/MCPs/FCPs)
+- Issue Triage
+- Issue Reporting
+- Moderation
+- Implementing new Features
+- Fixing bugs
+- Performance enhancements
+- Communication (e.g. writing blog posts, release notes, preparing for meetings or taking minutes)
+- Supporting/mentoring/guiding other contributors
+- Governance
+- Infrastructure work (CI, releases, ...)
+- Other (open response)
+
+### What parts of the Rust Project do you contribute to?
+
+Type: select all that apply (optional)
+
+- Compiler
+- Standard library
+- Rustdoc
+- Cargo
+- Rust Analyzer
+- Clippy
+- Rustfmt
+- Miri
+- Rustup
+- Bootstrap and related in-tree tools (compiletest, ...)
+- Other tooling (bors, rfcbot, triagebot, rustc-perf, ...)
+- Other (open response)
+
+### What Rust teams are you a part of?
+
+Enter up to five Rust teams or working groups (separated by commas) that you are a part of and that are the most relevant to the Rust Project contributions that you make. If you receive funding for work in some of these teams specifically, order them by how much funding you receive for work in a given team. For example, if you are a member of t-compiler and t-infra, but you are only funded for your work on t-compiler, enter "compiler,infra".
+
+Type: free form (optional)
+
+### What is your occupation?
+
+Type: select all that apply (optional)
+
+- I am employed
+- I do contract work
+- I run a business
+- I am a student
+- I am an academic (e.g. professor)
+- I am not studying, and I am unemployed or without a job
+- Other (open response)
+
+## Optional detailed questions
+
+The following questions are FULLY OPTIONAL. If you provide answers to them, they will NOT be shared publicly, and will be made available only to the Leadership Council and Rust Foundation staff that facilitates this survey.
+
+### Which companies/organizations fund your contributions to the Rust Project?
+
+If there are more than one, separate them by commas.
+
+**THIS ANSWER IS OPTIONAL**
+
+Type: free form (optional)
+
+### How much money do you receive for your Rust Project contributions?
+
+Estimate your average **hourly** income that is specifically being paid for your Rust Project contributions.
+
+Please provide the value as an integer in $USD (US Dollars).
+
+**THIS ANSWER IS OPTIONAL**
+
+Type: free form (optional)
+
+### Where are you located?
+
+Enter a country or a continent where you are located. We ask this question to contextualize the cost of living and average developer salary of Rust Project contributors.
+
+**THIS ANSWER IS OPTIONAL**
+
+Type: free form (optional)
+
+### What is your GitHub username?
+
+You can enter your GitHub handle here (without the leading @).
+
+**THIS ANSWER IS OPTIONAL**
+
+Type: free form (optional)
+
+### Do you have any other comments regarding Rust Project contributor funding and its sustainability?
+
+You can describe your funding situation in more detail or express your wishes for funding Rust Project work, or anything else.
+
+Type: free form (optional)