CodePlex Foundation Reports on 100 Day Goals

“Earlier this week, I noted the fact that the 100 day mark for
the CodePlex Foundation had passed (on December 19) without any
comment from the Foundation on how they had fared against their
aggressive goals for that time period, including the replacement of
the founding, interim Board of Directors, with a permanent
board.

“That blog entry sparked a call from the Foundation’s PR firm,
and an opportunity for me to spend an hour on the phone with Sam
Ramji, the interim President of the Foundation, and Foundation
Deputy Director Mark Stone during which we covered a lot of ground,
including what’s been accomplished so far, what the Foundation has
learned so far, how that has affected its planning, and what we can
expect to be announced in the short term and long term future. They
also informed me that a press release covering some of the same
topics would be issued today. That announcement was posted to the
Foundation Web site at Noon, and you can find it here (as usual,
it’s also pasted in at the end of this blog entry).

“With that as prelude, here’s what we talked about, and here’s
what I learned.

“Overview: It sounds from my conversation with Sam and Mark that
the Foundation has had a rather typical startup experience: too
much to do in too little time, some glitches, some surprises, and
some successes. Unlike a typical startup, which will often go into
stealth mode and contemplate its navel for months on end, though,
the Foundation has been engaging – as it should – in a great deal
of dialogue with all sorts of people in all sorts of roles in the
commercial and community landscape. They include members of the
open source community generally, potential project contributors,
potential sponsor members, Microsoft ecosystem OSS participants,
and others.”

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