Mission Statement

Statement from the Executive Director

The F# Software Foundation is a community operated, not-for-profit organization dedicated to our mission. As an organization, we actively encourage a diverse community of F# developers to join us in promoting the community through providing online space, sponsoring events and activities, and supporting the F# community through our programs.

The Foundation is a member-driven charitable organization, and we encourage anybody interested in F# to become a member. All are welcome to get involved.

Thank you,
Reed Copsey, Jr.
Executive Director - F# Software Foundation

The F# Software Foundation (FSSF):

• Manages and provides online space for the F# community to connect and support each other, including
• Operates programs furthering education and community outreach for the F# programming language
• Maintains open-source F# repositories made available to the public free of charge. This includes the F# language specification, the F# language design process, as well as assorted tools, libraries, and applications.
• Solicits and manages contributions to these open source codebases, and may perform these services on behalf of other open source F#-related codebases.
• Owns resources relating to F# including
  • the sub-domain foundation.fsharp.org
  • the github.com/fssf organization
• Maintains the fsharp.org domain as:
  • 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; and hosts other content consistent with the mission statement of the FSSF
  • The email addresses …@fsharp.org for the use of the foundation
• Seeks to:
  • expand the relevance and importance of F# skills and knowledge
  • expand the range of technologies which can interoperate with F#
  • expand the range of platforms where F# can be used
  • encourage a broad and diverse range of contributors to F#, including commercial, open source and educational contributors
  • publicize and promote the adoption of F#
  • facilitate the ongoing development of F#-related technology and educational resources, including contributing to F# conferences

Notes:

• “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 Mission Statement was ratified by the Board of Trustees on January 1st, 2020.