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
  • The F# Software Foundation Slack team
  • The F# Community Forums
• 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 domain fsharp.org
  • the github.com/fsharp community organization
  • the fsharporg twitter account
• 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:

• 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, Linux, and macOS platforms. We accept that as an excellent ongoing arrangement. We 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 F# Tools for Visual Studio
• “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 current Mission Statement was ratified by the Board of Trustees on January 1st, 2020.  
The Executive Statement was last modified by the Executive Director on January 1st, 2020.