GADS Open Source Project Information

GADS Open Source Project is a member of the Outercurve Foundation , a non-profit organization which provides a framework to facilitate the participation of corporate software developers in open source projects, either through intellectual property contributions to the foundation or through time volunteered under the auspices of the foundation to enable development work on open source projects. The Outercurve Foundation is an independent 501(c)(6) non-profit corporation initially founded by Microsoft with the goal to "enable the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities." It was founded on September 10, 2009 as the CodePlex Foundation, led mostly by Microsoft employees and affiliates. The name Outercurve Foundation was adopted in September 2010. Outercurve now serves the larger free and open-source software (FOSS) community as a generalized low-overhead foundation for projects and organizations. The Outercurve Foundation also provides a channel of communication from the open source community back to Foundation sponsors and other software companies, advancing the dialog between software companies and open source communities.