Welcome to the .NET Foundation

ScottGu announcement at Build
Channel 9 interview with community members

Welcome to the .NET Foundation! We foster open development, collaboration and community engagement on the .NET platform. The .NET Foundation includes popular open source .NET projects such as the .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”), ASP.NET MVC, Xamarin Mimekit and Mailkit, and many others.

The .NET Foundation will be the steward of a growing collection of open source technologies for.NET, Microsoft’s comprehensive development framework. Come back soon to watch community reactions from community members including Xamarin CTO Miguel de Icaza and others.

We will serve as a forum for commercial and community developers alike, while providing a set of practices and processes that strengthen the future of the .NET ecosystem.

.NET Foundation Projects

The .NET Foundation is starting with 24 .NET open source projects under its stewardship, including the newly announced .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") as well as the ASP.NET family of projects, both open sourced by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech). Xamarin contributed six open source .NET projects including the very popular Mailkit and Mimekit projects.

The current project list includes:

.NET API for Hadoop WebClient .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn")
.NET Map Reduce API for Hadoop .NET Micro Framework
ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET SignalR
ASP.NET Web API ASP.NET Web Pages
Composition (MEF2) Entity Framework
Linq to Hive MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework)
OWIN Authentication Middleware Rx (Reactive Extensions)
Web Protection Library Windows Azure .NET SDK
Windows Phone Toolkit WnsRecipe
Xamarin couchbase-lite-net Xamarin Mailkit
Xamarin Mimekit Xamarin.Auth
Xamarin.Mobile Xamarin System.Drawing

Get Involved

Community leaders such as Miguel de Icaza (Xamarin), Laurent Bugnion (IdentityMine), Niels Hartvig (Umbraco), Nigel Sampson (Compiled Experience), Anthony van der Hoorn (Glimpse) and Paul Betts are advancing  the conversation surrounding .NET open source projects. Join with them and  help us charter the organization to support openness, best-of-breed open source practices and opportunities for .NET developers.

Participation in the .NET Foundation exposes your project to the wider world of .NET developers and builds a better community. Please contact us to learn how your project can get involved.

In the upcoming months, the .NET Foundation will be inviting many companies and community leaders to join the foundation, including its Board of Directors and will then finalize its operational details, including governance models for its open source initiatives, membership structure and industry and community engagement. Check back here or follow @dotnetfdn on Twitter for the latest news about the .NET Foundation!