Outercurve Foundation Board of Directors: Members and History
Who served on the Outercurve Foundation board of directors? Documented members, roles, the 2009–2017 CodePlex transition, and where to verify the roster.
Outercurve History
Archival records of the Outercurve Foundation’s projects and galleries, from CodePlex to NuGet and ChronoZoom. Use this section to trace what a project was and where its repository lives today.
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Chemistry Add-in for Word (Chem4Word): What It Is and Where It Stands Today
What the Chemistry Add-in for Word does, how Microsoft Research's 2010 project became Chem4Word, and why its Version 2 code is obsolete next to V3.3.
Data, Languages and Systems Interoperability: The Open Source Gallery Explained
The Data, Languages and Systems Interoperability gallery was one of Outercurve's four open source galleries. History and today's open standards.
Outercurve Research Accelerators Gallery: Open Source Scientific Software (Archive)
A history of the Outercurve Research Accelerators Gallery, its ChronoZoom project and the open source scientific software it hosted until 2017.
ASP.NET Open Source Projects: What the Outercurve Gallery Was and Where to Find Them Today
What the Outercurve ASP.NET Open Source Gallery was, and where to find open source .NET projects today: the .NET Foundation, GitHub and NuGet.
DataUp Research Data Tool: What It Was and Who Built It
DataUp was a California Digital Library tool for preparing research spreadsheet data. See who built it, its partners and its place in Outercurve's history.
What Is CodePlex? Understanding Microsoft’s Open Source Hosting Platform
The question what is CodePlex often arises when exploring the history of open source development within the Microsoft ecosystem. CodePlex was once one of…
The Historic Impact of Outercurve: From CodePlex to Global Collaboration
Impact of Outercurve software has been shaped not only by code, but by the institutions that enable collaboration, governance, and trust. Among these institutions,…
How Companies Are Leveraging Outercurve Projects to Innovate
Open source software has evolved from a community-driven movement into a core pillar of modern enterprise innovation. Today, organizations across industries rely on trusted…
CodePlex to Outercurve: The Evolution of an Open Source Foundat
Introduction The open source movement has evolved dramatically over the past two decades. What began as a grassroots effort to share code and…