. NET Fringe Defining the future

In Dotnetconf 2015 will announce 4.12-14 in Portland to convene. NET Fringe http://dotnetfringe.org/, the Chinese community rarely has the relevant introduction, this article introduces this to you. NET community, since this year's Spring Festival, I began to operate the public number opendotnet with the idea of building the . NET community. Public number name:DotNET cross-platform, welcome everyone's attention.

The long history of open source software suggests that open source projects start with the open source community, that people who work in open source projects are eager to change and that the way they do things differs greatly from their usual work, but the sign of their existence is a healthy community.

A very prominent example is jQuery, once a very small class Library of Javascript, a group of enthusiastic developers who have evolved into a library for developers. There is a wealth of open source ecosystem contributions and use from the edge to the center of the mainstream stage.

until recently,. NET Communitydoes not actually exist, onlyMonoThe community has been at the fringe of the past5to theTenpositive changes have taken place over the years, starting last year with more positive changes, mainly in two areas: one is a very importantalt.net(alt.netare some. NETindustry leaders, they"in the. NETstrive to create quality software on the platform"(All comments Detailed referencethisYahoo Discussion Group ). Some of the focus of the meeting even involved things outside the mainstream of the software (such as using open source, agile software development, or . NETin theRubyand so on). ) of the construction, theyears Microsoft's layoffs and The open source of the . NET Micro Framework were tough in the Ballmer era . NET World , through alt.net the shouting, . NET The community is also moving forward (at the Microsoft Build Conference in early 2014, the "Windows and the Internet of things" presentation focused on the. NET Micro framework system,. NET Micro The framework re-enters Microsoft's IoT strategy landscape). Another important thing is that Microsoft is starting to take bold support for open source projects by setting up . NET Foundation, strongly involved in the building of the. NET Open source community. NET Open Source community is growing.

There are a lot of project listings, here are a list of items: jquery,mono, nuget, github, Json.NET, quartz.net , Toxy , and .net vnext This is just a sampling example and can also list very, very many open source projects.

This change is very important, this is just a start, a great start, all have a group of people through a . NET Fringe to focus on this topic, we passed . NET members of the open source community work together to define the future, and they will share their work, share their experiences, and share their passions in the rich, open-source culture of Portland. Although it occurs in Portland, USA, we can participate in this important event through the Internet.

. NET Fringe Defining the future