ImageSharp is a popular .NET project and an important library within our ecosystem. Earlier this year, James South, the leader of the project, announced an intent to change the license of the project and later announced that the license had changed. This change is significant for its users and its status as a .NET Foundation project. This post addresses a few questions: What is the .NET Foundation position on this license change? What is the status of ImageSharp as a .NET Foundation project? What guidance does .NET Foundation have for ImageSharp users? Quick answers: Six Labors has adopted a ..read more

Tomorrow is our 1st DNF Summit on Wednesday July 20, 2022! Catch the free event live on: www.DNFSummit.org Join the conversation or ask questions on Twitter with the hashtag #DNFSummit If you can't watch live, it will be available on YouTube! Optional registration link: https://bit.ly/3OjmWGA Our line up for the day can be found on www.DNFSummit.org ..read more

.NET BEYOND is happening on March 30-31, 2022! Are there any boundaries to what you can build with .NET? Not really! Join us for two full days on Twitch or YouTube as we look at how some of the smartest voices in the .NET community are using it to develop for the enterprise—and at scale. No matter where you fit in the .NET spectrum, you’re guaranteed to pick up something you haven’t learned yet. All proceeds from sponsorships of the event will be going to GirlsWhoCode! Join the .NET Foundation's sponsor Volosoft for their next Youtube Live Community Talk on April 7th! In this episode of the ..read more

After a week delay, the Outreach Committee is meeting this Tuesday. If you can make it, we could use your opinions and efforts to help promote .NET to new audiences! Our meetings are public and anyone can attend. The outreach committee is here to welcome developers of all backgrounds, education, and technology experience into the .NET ecosystem. We are here to help you organize and evangelize with your own .NET communities, opportunities, and events. Please join us on March 15th at 3pm ET/noon PT/8pm GMT/7am AEDT on Teams at: March 2022 Outreach Committee Meeting TIA! Shawn Wildermuth .NET ..read more

Another month, another Outreach committee. We're planning a new live event and need your help. Please attend if you can volunteer your time to help make this open source event happen! Our meetings are public and anyone can attend. The outreach committee is here to welcome developers of all backgrounds, education, and technology experience into the .NET ecosystem. We are here to help you organize and evangelize with your own .NET communities, opportunities, and events. Please join us on February 8th at 3pm ET/noon PT/8pm GMT/7am AEDT on Teams at: February 2022 Outreach Committee Meeting TIA ..read more

New year, new you? If you're passionate about .NET and are ready to help the .NET Foundation's Outreach Committee achieve it's goals, then it's time to volunteer. Our meetings are public and anyone can attend. The outreach committee is here to welcome developers of all backgrounds, education, and technology experience into the .NET ecosystem. We are here to help you organize and evangelize with your own .NET communities, opportunities, and events. Please join us on January 11th at 3pm ET/noon PT/8pm GMT/7am AEDT on Teams at: January 2022 Outreach Committee Meeting TIA! Shawn Wildermuth .NET ..read more

Are you passionate about .NET? Are you interested in helping people adopt and expand Open Source initiatives? You might be the right person to help out the Outreach Committee of the .NET Foundation. Our meetings are public and anyone can attend. The outreach committee is here to welcome developers of all backgrounds, education, and technology experience into the .NET ecosystem. We are here to help you organize and evangelize with your own .NET communities, opportunities, and events. If you'd like to attend, please join us on December 14th at 2pm ET/11am PT/7pm GMT/6am AEDT on Teams at: Outre ..read more

With the Face-to-Face meeting coming up next week, we wanted to help get the important discussions started. To that end, we're opening up a place to put your questions and have the community vote the most important ones to ask with our limited time. To add your questions and vote, please visit: https://bit.ly/dnf-facetoface We're using this method to gather the questions that are most important to the community. This will become the list of questions from the community on the day of the Face-to-Face events. While we still will be monitoring the chat, we wanted a way for the community to hel ..read more

Come Talk to Us! Updated: Added a second meeting for more timezones A lot of discussion inside and outside the .NET Foundation has been going on the last two weeks. What we've heard is that there is both confusion about what the goals of the Foundation are; as well as how member projects are sheparded. To this end, we'd like to start a conversation with the community. To begin with, we invite you to a Face-to-Face discussions on October 27th. Richard Campbell has graciously agreed to host these events: This discussion will be live-streamed on YouTube to be as transparent as possible. Please c ..read more

The results are in! We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Board Election, but before we do, we have a bit of news to announce. Rodney Littles has decided to resign from the Foundation. Rodney has been a board member and the chair for the Technical Steering Group for the past year. We wish him all the best as he refocuses on his personal life. The bylaws of the Foundation state that the existing board should appoint a replacement for his seat. We felt with the election taking place as he sent his resignation, it would be fitting for our community of members to have a say in that 4t ..read more