.NET Foundation

March 2023 Microsoft organization for .NET .NET Foundation .NET Foundation Logo.svg 150px 501(c)(6) organization 2014 03 31".NET Foundation". Registration Data Search. Corporations Division. Washington State Secretary of State. Accessed on March 30, 2016. Microsoft Redmond, Washington, U.S."NET Foundation". Guidestar. Accessed on March 30, 2016. 47-2119192 The .NET Foundation is an organization incorporated on March 31, 2014, by Microsoft to improve open-source software development and collaboration around the .NET Framework.Lardinois Frederic April 3, 2014 Microsoft Launches .NET Foundation To Foster The .NET Open Source Ecosystem https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/03/microsoft-launches-net-foundation-to-foster-the-net-open-source-ecosystem/ TechCrunch It was launched at the annual Build 2014 conference held by Microsoft.Paoli Jean April 3, 2014 .NET Foundation Established to Foster Open Development https://msopentech.com/blog/2014/04/03/net-foundation-established-foster-open-development/ MS Open Tech May 21, 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150521154900/https://msopentech.com/blog/2014/04/03/net-foundation-established-foster-open-development/ May 21, 2015 dead 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).Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) https://www.dotnetfoundation.org/faq .NET Foundation May 21, 2015 May 14, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160514230321/http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/faq dead The foundation uses GitHub to host the open-source projects it manages..NET Foundation https://github.com/dotnet GitHub 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.https://dotnetfoundation.org/membership/become-a-member .NET Foundation Membership dotnetfoundation.org November 18, 2022 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). Xamarin contributed six of its projects including the open source email libraries MimeKit and MailKit. 2026 8, it is the steward of 556 active projects,https://dotnetfoundation.org .NET Foundation dotnetfoundation.org https://web.archive.org/web/20200509082244/https://dotnetfoundation.org/ May 9, 2020 live including: .NET, Entity Framework (EF), Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), MSBuild, NuGet, Orchard CMS and WorldWide Telescope. Many of these projects are also listed under Outercurve Foundation project galleries. 2026 July, its board of directors consisted of Mitchel Sellers (President), Jonathan Tower (Vice President), Lou Creemers, Chris Woodruff, Irina Dominte, Peter Smulovics, Hayden Barnes, Meagon Hansen, and Chris Sfanos (Founding Member Representative)..NET Foundation Board of Directors https://dotnetfoundation.org/about/board-of-directors https://web.archive.org/web/20240912204437/https://dotnetfoundation.org/about/board-of-directors September 12, 2024 September 26, 2021 .NET Foundation See also Free and open-source software Free software movement ASP.NET AJAX ASP.NET MVC SignalR .NET Micro Framework References 30em External links Category:501(c)(6) nonprofit organizations Category:Free software project foundations based in the United States Category:Microsoft initiatives Category:Organizations established in 2014