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The F# Software Foundation |
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Maintains a core open-source F# code repository and distributions made available to the public free of charge for use across multiple platforms. This includes the F# compiler, F# language specification, the F# core library and assorted tools and applications.
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Solicits and manages contributions to this open source F# codebase, and may perform these services on behalf of other open source F#-related codebases. Contributions to the open source F# codebase will maintain the integrity of the F# language and will initially focus on broadening the reach of F# across multiple platforms rather than extending the functionality of the F# language (see notes below).
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Owns resources relating to F# including
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the domain fsharp.org
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the github.com/fsharp community organization
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the fsharporg twitter account
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Maintains the fsharp.org domain as:
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A website which gives authoritative and up-to-date information about how to get, use and contribute to F# across a diverse range of platforms; links to other F# news, community, Q&A, social, user group and educational; gives clear and helpful links to commercial companies, tools and products that relate to F#; and hosts other content consistent with the mission statement of the FSSF
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The email addresses ...@fsharp.org for the use of the foundation
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Seeks to:
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expand the relevance and importance of F# skills and knowledge
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expand the range of technologies which can interoperate with F#
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expand the range of platforms where F# can be used
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encourage a broad and diverse range of contributors to F#, including commercial, open source and educational contributors
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publicize and promote the adoption of F#
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facilitate the ongoing development of F#-related technology and educational resources, including contributing to F# conferences
- The FSSF acknowledge the role of Microsoft as the current primary developers of the F# language, open-source compiler and open-source core tools, with a focus on the Windows platform. They accept that as an excellent ongoing arrangement. They welcome Microsoft’s contributions to the aims of the FSSF through both the open source releases of the F# compiler and the commercial releases of the Visual F# tooling.
- Because the FSSF is currently an informal organization, the word "owns" in the text above currently means that one core member owns the relevant property and has agreed to dedicate it to the use of the organization and transfer it to the organization once it is legally established.
- "Open source" is defined as: freely available technology licensed under terms compatible with Version 1.9 (or later) of the Open Source Definition, as established by the Open Source Initiative (see http://www.opensource.org/).
The FSSF is currently run as an informal organization. The intention is to eventually move towards an established organizational structure (e.g. charity or legally established foundation). The FSSF may in the future raise or accept funds to support FSSF programs and services. If it does so, it would adopt charitable status in the UK subject to the regulations for public charity funding.
If you are interested in supporting the activities of The F# Software Foundation, please contact fsharp@fsharp.org.
The FSF is currently an informal organization formed by the F# community members listed below, with feedback from a number of other F# community members. If you would like to become a person listing themselves as a founding member of this initiative and who agrees with its goals, please contact fsharp@fsharp.org. If you have commercial interests in F# (which we encourage!) and those go beyond using the language for writing commercial software (otherwise unrelated to F#), please mention this. If you have comments on the above statement, please contact fsharp@fsharp.org.
Any F#-related group which agrees with the mission statement of the FSF can be affiliated with the FSF. This includes user working groups, discussion groups, those associated with 3rd-party commercial technologies and both professional and open-source groups.
See the current list of affiliated technical groups and user groups.
- SkillsMatter - meetups, conferences, workshops and trainings
- Software Acumen - organizers of the FP days conference
- Phil Trelford, Developer and Architect, Finance and Trading sector, London (@ptrelford)
- Tomas Petricek (tomas@tomasp.net), PhD student at the University of Cambridge
- Richard Minerich, (richard.minerich@gmail.com), @Rickasaurus
- Cameron Taggart
- Ronnie Holm
- Cesar Mendoza (paks@kitiara.org), DuPont Pioneer
- Gustavo Guerra
- Steffen Forkmann
- Daniel Mohl
- Henrik Feldt
- Nicolas Rolland
- Kit Eason
- Antonio Cisternino (cisterni@di.unipi.it), Professor at Computer Science Department, University of Pisa
- Yan Cui (theburningmonk@gmail.com), Senior C#/F# developer at GameSys
- Steven Taylor
- Adrian Newman
- Adam Granicz, IntelliFactory
- Robin Neatherway, @rneatherway
- Rainer Schmidt, Rainer Schmidt, Professor for Business Information Systems, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
- Anh-Dung Phan, PhD student at Technical University of Denmark
- Petr Lepilov, New England F# User Group
- Dave Thomas, (@7sharp9)
- Jack Fox
- Ben Taylor, @bentayloruk
- Mathias Brandewinder
- Ryan Riley, @c4fsharp
- Hans Rischel
- Michael Reichhardt Hansen
- Eric Lynn
- Torbjörn Gyllebring
- Mark Pearl, @markpearlcoza
- Robin Taylor
- Michael Newton, @mavnn
- Andrew Cherry
- Keith Sheppard
- Matthew Moloney
- Nikolay Ulmasov
- Tao Liu
- Rodrigo Vidal
- Dmitry Soshnikov (dmitri@soshnikov.com), Technology evangelist at Microsoft Russia and Associate Professor at Higher School of Economics / Moscow Aviation Technical University
- Simon Cousins, professional F# programmer
- Jianchu Huang
- Aaron Erickson, Techie, ThoughtWorks
- Dmitry Slutsky (@akaLakret), Developer, SKB Kontur
- Carsten König
- Gene Belitski
- Dave Elliman (@arrivingleaving), ThoughtWorks
- Matt Ball
- David Thayer
- Matt Harrington
- Ross McKinlay (@pezi_pink)
- Muigai Mwaura (@MuigaiMwaura)
- Christian Nielsen(@dotnetnerd)
- Fabio Galuppo
- Mark Dalgarno Senior Consultant, Software Acumen
- James Freiwirth, Software Consultant, Perfect Shuffle Ltd.
- Robert Croud
- Tim Robinson (@1tgr)
- Sergey Tihon (@sergey_tihon)
- Homi Chothia
- John Tarbox
- John B Fair (@johnbfair)
- Loïc Denuzière, IntelliFactory
- Christoph Rüegg (@cdrnet)
- Piet Amersfoort
- Heather Cynede (@Cynede)
- Jonathan Leonard
- José Luis D'Andrade Suero, Attorney, Legal Informatics Specialist
- Adil Akhter (@adilakhter), Msc. Student, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Phil Nash, (@phil_nash)
- Tommy Doherty, Head of development for a software development company in Dublin, Ireland
- Bogdan Tira, Organizer of Chicago's F# Users group
- Tony Abel
- Aidan Twomey
- Rod Furlan
- Matthew Podwysocki, Microsoft
- John Usher
- Neil Danson @neildanson
- Quinton Coetzee @qmcoetzee
- Vijesh Shah @vijesh
- Kunjan Dalal @kunjee
- Natallie Baikevich @lu_a_jalla
- Don Syme @dsyme
- Simon Parker
- Rachel Reese @rachelreese
- Paulmichael Blasucci @pblasucci
- Gareth Stoyle
- Andre Pemmelaar @QuantixResearch
- Jomo Fisher
- Onorio Catenacci @OldDutchCap
- Julian Mackintosh, Barclays Capital
- Pavel Motuzenko, Barclays Capital
- Aggelos Biboudis, University of Athens @biboudis
- Eirik Tsarpalis, M-Brace @eiriktsarpalis
- Nick Palladinos @NickPalladinos
- Isaac Abraham @isaac_Abraham
- Dave Fancher @davefancher
- Anton Tayanovskyy @t0yv0, IntelliFactory
- Dawid Kowalski @kowalgta
- Will Smith @TIHan
- Bryan Hunter @bryan_hunter
- Michael Ciccotti
- Karl Nilsson @kjnilsson
- Robert Jeppesen @rojepp, Durius
- Morgan Persson @lazydev
- Ian Russell @ijrussell
- Anthony Brown @bruinbrown93
- Goswin Rothenthal [Waagner Biro] (http://www.waagner-biro.com/en/divisions/steel-glass-structures/about)
- Mark Seemann @ploeh
- César Octavio López Natarén @nataren
- Samuel Bosch @gissolved
- Chris Holt @lefthandedgoat
- Victor Baybekov @buybackoff
- Reed Copsey, Jr. @reedcopsey
- Stefan Alfbo @stefanalfbo
- Torben Rahbek Koch @torbenrkoch
- Samin Ishtiaq, Research Engineer, Microsoft Research
- Enrico Sada, (enrico@sada.io), @enricosada
- Dmitry Sevastianov, (dsevastianov@gmail.com)
- Max Malook, (mexx, @max_malook)
- Email fsharp@fsharp.org to contact the F# Software Foundation.
- Contributions and corrections to this site can be submitted via the F# community on GitHub