Checking in on CodePlex

Posted by Andy_Updegrove on Nov 6, 2009 4:40 PM EDT
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It's been more than a month since I last wrote about the CodePlex Foundation, the new open source initiative announced by Microsoft in early September. While things were pretty quiet at the Foundation site for some time, that changed on October 21, when the Foundation posted its new Project Acceptance and Operation Guidelines, a key deliverable that gives insight into a variety of aspects of the Foundation's developing purpose and philosophy. 

Surprisingly, though, there was very little pickup on the guidelines, or on a new "house" interview posted a week later with Sam Ramji, the interim CEO of the Foundation, until yesterday (perhaps with a little nudging from the PR side of the Microsoft house)...

In this blog entry, I'll give my impressions of how the CodePlex Foundation is developing, and (as before) my opinions on how effective the decisions being made are likely to be in achieving the Foundation's goals.

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Correct link djohnston 1 958 Nov 6, 2009 6:36 PM
Where's the link to the original Article tracyanne 2 939 Nov 6, 2009 6:35 PM

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