.NET Foundation

The .NET Foundation is an organization incorporated on March 31, 2014,[1] by Microsoft to improve open-source software development and collaboration around the .NET Framework.[4] It was launched at the annual Build 2014 conference held by Microsoft.[5] The foundation is license-agnostic, and projects that come to the foundation are free to choose any open-source license, as defined by the Open Source Initiative (OSI).[6] The foundation uses GitHub to host the open-source projects it manages.[7]

.NET Foundation
FoundedMarch 31, 2014 (2014-03-31)[1]
FounderMicrosoft
47-2119192[2]
Legal status501(c)(6) organization
HeadquartersRedmond, Washington, U.S.[2]
Executive Director
Claire Novotny[3]
Vice President
Jon Galloway[3]
Websitewww.dotnetfoundation.org

Anyone who has contributed to .NET Foundation projects can apply to be a .NET Foundation member. Members can vote in elections for the board of the directors and will preserve the health of the organization.[8]

The foundation began with twenty-four projects under its stewardship including .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") and the ASP.NET family of open-source projects, both open-sourced by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech).[5] Xamarin contributed six of its projects including the open source email libraries MimeKit and MailKit.[5] As of April 2019, it is the steward of 56 active projects,[9] including: .NET Core, Entity Framework (EF), Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), Umbraco, MSBuild, NuGet, Orchard CMS and WorldWide Telescope. Many of these projects are also listed under Outercurve Foundation project galleries.

Its board of directors consists of Phil Haack, Ben Adams, Sara Chipps, Iris Classon, Beth Massi, and Jon Skeet.[3]

See also

References
  1. ".NET Foundation". Registration Data Search. Corporations Division. Washington State Secretary of State. Accessed on march 30, 2016.
  2. "NET Foundation". Guidestar. Accessed on March 30, 2016.
  3. "About the .NET Foundation". .NET Foundation.
  4. Lardinois, Frederic (April 3, 2014). "Microsoft Launches .NET Foundation To Foster The .NET Open Source Ecosystem". TechCrunch.
  5. Paoli, Jean (April 3, 2014). ".NET Foundation Established to Foster Open Development". MS Open Tech. Archived from the original on 2015-05-21. Retrieved 2015-05-21.
  6. "Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)". .NET Foundation.
  7. ".NET Foundation". GitHub.
  8. ".NET Foundation Membership". dotnetfoundation.org. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  9. ".NET Foundation". dotnetfoundation.org. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
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