Sam Ramji: On the CodePlex Foundation and more

“LWN: I’d like to start by discussing the CodePlex Foundation,
can you give us your high-level overview of the foundation and its
mission? Is it meant to serve the open source community, software
companies, or both?

“Both. The CodePlex Foundation’s mission is to enable the
exchange of code and understanding among software companies and
open source communities. We are organized to serve both the open
source community and software companies, which is why we chose to
operate as an independent, non-profit foundation. As LWN and others
have noted, other foundations exist – GNOME, Mozilla, Apache,
Linux and Eclipse, for example – which share similar goals,
although those foundations have a specific technology focus. We saw
the need for an organization that more broadly addressed the
process of participating in open source communities. In my travels
in open source I’ve observed that corporate software developers
don’t often participate as much as one might expect in the open
source projects that they make use of. We are working to provide an
answer to the question: as a software company or as a corporate
software developer, how can I contribute code, or a project, to an
open source project or foundation?”

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