[Mono-dev] To say hello and ask some questions about Mono...

[Konrad M. Kruczyński]

Hi,
do not hesitate to contact me if you like, but the idea seems rather
vague to me. Mono development is currently lead by Xamarin which is also
open to accept ideas and patches from community. How this really works,
you can observe at github: https://github.com/mono/mono.git The amount
of community driven patches probably increased with git and github as it
simplifies submitting and merging patches.

On the Microsoft side, the actions that helped Mono development were
open sourcing some parts of .NET (for example DLR, lately Entity
Framework) using useful licence (Apache 2.0, for that matter). One could
probably create wishlist containing another parts. For example Nuget,
which theoretically admits Mono existence, but support is severely
limited (for example try to create package).

But the most important question here is: what is the role of the
foundation here?

On Sat, 2012-09-29 at 20:37 +0200, Leszek Ciesielski wrote:
> There's quite a few Mono contributors coming from Poland, starting
> with Xamarin's Marek Habersack. Other active community members include
> Marek Sieradzki and Konrad Kruczyński. Perhaps it would be best for
> you to reach out to those people personally?
> 
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Robert Wilkens <robwilkens at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not an expert (in complete honesty), but i think microsoft is free to contribute to mono's development as long as they contribute it under i believe it is the mit/x11 license, which may or may not be desirable to them.
> >
> > I also have heard that as far as moonlight goes, the silverlight equivalent for linux like platforms which i think is based on mono, I am pretty sure i heard microsoft did make a contribution as far as providing unit tests or something to that extent.
> >
> > -Rob
> >
> >
> > On Sep 29, 2012, at 11:27 AM, Michał Smereczyński <michal at aegis.org.pl> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello there,
> >> My name is Michael Smereczynski. I'm vice-chairman of Aegis - Polish open source software foundation (we pretend to be like Apache Software Foundation but now we are doing our job only in Poland).
> >>
> >> Personally, I'm not a programmer (but I allways wanted to do something by myself - maybe in future). So if I'll ask You something stupid, please don't hurt me ;)
> >>
> >> I am a man who comes from the assumption that the Linux users do not need to be evangelized in using and creating open source software. I dream that Windows users and programmers were so "open" as Linux users. that's why I became interested in .NET and C#. I'm interested in cloud computing solutions too, so I know Windows Azure, where developers using Windows platform have an easier life...
> >>
> >> What is Mono status today? Is it posible to let Microsoft to help in developing Mono?
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Michael
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