.NET Foundation

The .NET Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization established to support an innovative, commercially friendly, open-source ecosystem around the .NET development platform. Founded in 2014, the .NET Foundation started with twenty-four projects in its care, most donated by Microsoft. These days, you’ll find over one hundred active projects, including the .NET Compiler Platform, C#, ASP.NET, .NET Core, and Xamarin, along with many popular .NET open-source frameworks like xUnit, ImageSharp, Polly, and Reactive Extensions. The .NET Foundation promotes the broad spectrum of software available to .NET developers through NuGet.org, GitHub, and other venues and supports the community through advocacy, education, marketing and administrative support.