Organization:Outercurve Foundation
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| Formation | September 10, 2009 |
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| Dissolved | April 22, 2017 |
| Type | NGO and Non-profit organization |
| Legal status | Foundation |
| Purpose | Educational |
Region served | Worldwide |
Executive Director | Erynn Petersen |
The Outercurve Foundation was an independent 501(c)(6) non-profit corporation founded by Microsoft.[1][2] Its goal was to "enable the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities." They ran several software projects, some of which were connected to the .NET Framework.[3][4][5][6]
It was founded on September 10, 2009, as the CodePlex Foundation, led mostly by Microsoft employees and affiliates.[7] The free software community considered the site subversive and suspected Microsoft's goal was to make people dependent on Windows and other software owned by Microsoft.[8] The name Outercurve Foundation was adopted In September 2010.[9][10] In November 2010 changes to by-laws were made and the board was expanded.[11] Outercurve now serves the larger free and open-source community as a generalized low-overhead foundation for projects and organizations. Projects contributed by the group to the .NET Foundation include Nuget, Kudu and the ASP.NET AJAX library.[12]
Outercurve directors filed articles of dissolution to the Washington Secretary of State on April 22, 2017.[13]
See also
References
- ↑ Koman, Richard (2009-09-11). "MSFT presents CodePlex - open source foundation with a commercial twist". ZDNet. https://www.zdnet.com/article/msft-presents-codeplex-open-source-foundation-with-a-commercial-twist/.
- ↑ "Mission". Outercurve. http://www.outercurve.org/About/FAQ/Mission.
- ↑ "ASP.NET Open Source Gallery". Outercurve. http://www.outercurve.org/Galleries/ASPNETOpenSourceGallery.
- ↑ "Research Accelerators". Outercurve. http://www.outercurve.org/Galleries/ResearchAccelerators.
- ↑ "Data, Languages, and Systems Interoperability Gallery". Outercurve. http://www.outercurve.org/Galleries/DataLanguagesandSystemsInteroperability.
- ↑ "Innovators Gallery". Outercurve. http://www.outercurve.org/Galleries/InnovatorsGallery.
- ↑ "Microsoft creates the CodePlex foundation". Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftCreatesTheCodePlexFoundation.aspx.
- ↑ "Lest CodePlex perplex". Free Software Foundation. http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/microsoft-codeplex-foundation.
- ↑ Blankenhorn, Dana (2010-09-28). "CodePlex Foundation becomes OuterCurve". ZDNet. https://www.zdnet.com/article/codeplex-foundation-becomes-outercurve/.
- ↑ "The CodePlex Foundation Rebrands, Renamed Outercurve Foundation". Outercurve. http://www.outercurve.org/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/19/The-CodePlex-Foundation-Rebrands-Renamed-Outercurve-Foundation.
- ↑ "About the Outercurve Foundation". Outercurve Foundation. http://www.outercurve.org/About.
- ↑ "Announcing new governance model and project contributions to the .NET Foundation". November 12, 2014. https://www.dotnetfoundation.org/blog/announcing-new-governance-model-and-project-contributions-to-the-net-foundation.
- ↑ "Search for articles of dissolution WA Secretary of State". https://ccfs.sos.wa.gov/#/Home.
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