[hobofan]

Rough guess: In the inauguration blog post[0], a yearly budget of $1mil was mentioned, when there were 5 founding members (so $200k/year/company). I am not sure if the distinction they make on the "Members" page between "Founding Platinum" and "Platinum" has any practical implications, but I guess that new members might have to pay a premium. So possibly +$200k/year/company for Platinum level.

[0] https://foundation.rust-lang.org/posts/2021-02-08-hello-worl...

[tpatool]

So that would be just enough to pay the bureaucracy, like in other foundations.

It seems they just want some influence and use it as a hiring bait.

After having been hired, you'll be asked to work on a legacy C++ code base.