# New members for the lang team! **URL:** \ **Category:** announcements\ **Created:** [March 20, 2018, 9:17am UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/new-members-for-the-lang-team/7087 "2018-03-20T09:17:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nikomatsakis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/nikomatsakis/32/5410_2.png) [@nikomatsakis](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/nikomatsakis)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 9:17am UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/new-members-for-the-lang-team/7087/1 "2018-03-20T09:17:04Z")
The lang team is growing! Please join me in welcoming our new **full members** : ⚙ @josh was one of the original “lang team shepherds”, and they’ve been doing an excellent job since then helping to ensure that everything works smoothly. @josh first got involved in Rust by writing and championing the [unions RFC](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1444), but they have since introduced a number of RFCs in and around the area of FFI and C interop, including support for [varargs functions](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2137), [unnamed fields](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2102), and the more general area of cargo interop. @josh also serves on the Cargo and Style teams. ⚙ @scottmcm joined as shepherd [last June](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcement-cramertj-and-scottmcm-join-as-lang-team-shepherds/5360). Since then, @scottmcm has done a great job of driving towards consensus, both in meetings and on public forums. Finally, I’m pleased to announce that we also have two **new lang team shepherds** : ⚙ @Centril has rocketed onto the Rust scene of late, authoring no less than [19 RFCs](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+author%3ACentril+) over a variety of areas. In addition, @Centril has quite active in a number of conversations both on the RFC tracker and elsewhere, always doing a great job of helping to tease out the underlying constraints in a design space and to drive towards consensus. ⚙ @rpjohnst has been very active in a number of discussions, including the famously contentious series of module RFCs. In all of those, @rpjohnst has distinguished themselves by their careful and methodical approach to analyzing tradeoffs, always ensuring that we keep our end-goals in sight. 🎉 ⚙ 🎉 ⚙ 🎉 ⚙ 🎉 ⚙ 🎉 ⚙ 🎉 ⚙ 🎉 ⚙ 🎉⚙ 🎉 ---
**Author:** ![Centril](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/centril/32/3334_2.png) [@Centril](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/Centril)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 5:47pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/new-members-for-the-lang-team/7087/2 "2018-03-20T17:47:56Z")
🎉 🎈 Congrats to @josh and @scottmcm on becoming full members and my co-shepherd @rpjohnst! ---
**Author:** ![aturon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/aturon/32/3272_2.png) [@aturon](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/aturon)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 10:13pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/new-members-for-the-lang-team/7087/3 "2018-03-20T22:13:09Z")
Congrats, all! It feels so good to be growing the team with yet more high-caliber folks, and once that bring a range of perspectives as well. ---
**Author:** ![nikomatsakis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/internals.rust-lang.org/nikomatsakis/32/5410_2.png) [@nikomatsakis](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/nikomatsakis)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2019, 8:29am UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/new-members-for-the-lang-team/7087/4 "2019-03-25T08:29:55Z")
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