Outercurve Foundation Explained

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Type:NGO and Non-profit organization
Status:Foundation
Purpose:Educational
Region Served:Worldwide
Leader Title:Executive Director
Leader Name: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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: MSFT presents CodePlex - open source foundation with a commercial twist. Koman. Richard. ZDNet. 2009-09-11. 2021-03-28.
  2. Web site: Mission . Outercurve . June 24, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140222042551/http://www.outercurve.org/About/FAQ/Mission . February 22, 2014 . dead .
  3. Web site: ASP.NET Open Source Gallery . Outercurve . June 24, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111219005513/http://www.outercurve.org/Galleries/ASPNETOpenSourceGallery . December 19, 2011 . dead .
  4. Web site: Research Accelerators . Outercurve . June 24, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111230140821/http://www.outercurve.org/Galleries/ResearchAccelerators . December 30, 2011 . dead .
  5. Web site: Data, Languages, and Systems Interoperability Gallery . Outercurve . June 24, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131006203735/http://www.outercurve.org/Galleries/DataLanguagesandSystemsInteroperability/ . October 6, 2013 . dead .
  6. Web site: Innovators Gallery . Outercurve . June 24, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140222042547/http://www.outercurve.org/Galleries/InnovatorsGallery . February 22, 2014 . dead .
  7. Web site: Microsoft creates the CodePlex foundation . Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen . June 24, 2012.
  8. Web site: Lest CodePlex perplex . Free Software Foundation . August 26, 2018.
  9. Web site: CodePlex Foundation becomes OuterCurve. Blankenhorn. Dana. ZDNet. 2010-09-28. 2021-03-28.
  10. Web site: The CodePlex Foundation Rebrands, Renamed Outercurve Foundation . Outercurve . March 27, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101002150156/http://www.outercurve.org/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/19/The-CodePlex-Foundation-Rebrands-Renamed-Outercurve-Foundation . October 2, 2010 . dead .
  11. Web site: About the Outercurve Foundation . Outercurve Foundation . June 24, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120104063441/http://www.outercurve.org/About . January 4, 2012 . dead .
  12. Web site: Announcing new governance model and project contributions to the .NET Foundation. dotnetfoundation.org. November 12, 2014.
  13. Web site: Search for articles of dissolution WA Secretary of State.

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