[1][2] Its goal was to "enable the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities."
[3][4][5][6] It was founded on September 10, 2009, as the CodePlex Foundation, led mostly by Microsoft employees and affiliates.
[11] Outercurve now serves the larger free and open-source community as a generalized low-overhead foundation for projects and organizations.
Projects contributed by the group to the .NET Foundation include Nuget, Kudu and the ASP.NET AJAX library.
[12] Outercurve directors filed articles of dissolution to the Washington Secretary of State on April 22, 2017.