Outercurve Foundation

{{Short description|Defunct non-profit software foundation}}

{{confused|CodePlex}}

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| leader_name = Erynn Petersen

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The Outercurve Foundation was an independent 501(c)(6) non-profit corporation founded by Microsoft.{{Cite web|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/msft-presents-codeplex-open-source-foundation-with-a-commercial-twist/

|title=MSFT presents CodePlex - open source foundation with a commercial twist

|last1=Koman|first1=Richard

|work=ZDNet

|date=2009-09-11

|access-date=2021-03-28

}}{{cite web | url=http://www.outercurve.org/About/FAQ/Mission | title=Mission | publisher=Outercurve | access-date=June 24, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222042551/http://www.outercurve.org/About/FAQ/Mission | archive-date=February 22, 2014 | url-status=dead }} 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.{{cite web | url=http://www.outercurve.org/Galleries/ASPNETOpenSourceGallery | title=ASP.NET Open Source Gallery | publisher=Outercurve | access-date=June 24, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111219005513/http://www.outercurve.org/Galleries/ASPNETOpenSourceGallery | archive-date=December 19, 2011 | url-status=dead }}{{cite web | url=http://www.outercurve.org/Galleries/ResearchAccelerators | title=Research Accelerators | publisher=Outercurve | access-date=June 24, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111230140821/http://www.outercurve.org/Galleries/ResearchAccelerators | archive-date=December 30, 2011 | url-status=dead }}{{cite web | url=http://www.outercurve.org/Galleries/DataLanguagesandSystemsInteroperability | title=Data, Languages, and Systems Interoperability Gallery | publisher=Outercurve | access-date=June 24, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006203735/http://www.outercurve.org/Galleries/DataLanguagesandSystemsInteroperability/ | archive-date=October 6, 2013 | url-status=dead }}{{cite web | url=http://www.outercurve.org/Galleries/InnovatorsGallery | title=Innovators Gallery | publisher=Outercurve | access-date=June 24, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222042547/http://www.outercurve.org/Galleries/InnovatorsGallery | archive-date=February 22, 2014 | url-status=dead }}

It was founded on September 10, 2009, as the CodePlex Foundation, led mostly by Microsoft employees and affiliates.{{cite web | url=http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftCreatesTheCodePlexFoundation.aspx | title=Microsoft creates the CodePlex foundation | work=Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen | access-date=June 24, 2012}} 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.{{cite web | url=http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/microsoft-codeplex-foundation | title=Lest CodePlex perplex

| publisher=Free Software Foundation | access-date=August 26, 2018}} The name Outercurve Foundation was adopted In September 2010.{{Cite web|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/codeplex-foundation-becomes-outercurve/

|title=CodePlex Foundation becomes OuterCurve

|last1=Blankenhorn|first1=Dana

|work=ZDNet

|date=2010-09-28

|access-date=2021-03-28

}}{{cite web | url=http://www.outercurve.org/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/19/The-CodePlex-Foundation-Rebrands-Renamed-Outercurve-Foundation | title=The CodePlex Foundation Rebrands, Renamed Outercurve Foundation | publisher=Outercurve | access-date=March 27, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101002150156/http://www.outercurve.org/News/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/19/The-CodePlex-Foundation-Rebrands-Renamed-Outercurve-Foundation | archive-date=October 2, 2010 | url-status=dead }} In November 2010 changes to by-laws were made and the board was expanded.{{cite web | url=http://www.outercurve.org/About | title=About the Outercurve Foundation | publisher=Outercurve Foundation | access-date=June 24, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104063441/http://www.outercurve.org/About | archive-date=January 4, 2012 | url-status=dead }} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.dotnetfoundation.org/blog/announcing-new-governance-model-and-project-contributions-to-the-net-foundation|title=Announcing new governance model and project contributions to the .NET Foundation|website=dotnetfoundation.org|date=November 12, 2014}}

Outercurve directors filed articles of dissolution to the Washington Secretary of State on April 22, 2017.{{cite web|url=https://ccfs.sos.wa.gov/#/Home|title=Search for articles of dissolution WA Secretary of State}}