The Outreach Committee is here to welcome developers of all backgrounds, education, and technology ecosystems into the .NET ecosystem. We are here to help you organize and evangelize.
If you'd like to see what we're working on, please visit us at our GitHub Working Group:
- Encourage new developers to build with .NET
- Empower underrepresented regions to spawn leaders and contributors in the .NET community.
- Assist event and/or user group organizers with evangelism and growth of attendance
NOTE: The committee is in the process of coming up with the 2023 priorities. If you have any ideas, please submit a proposal
Educating and assisting .NET developers in contributing to Open Source SoftwareConference sponsorships (e.g., travel, lodging, tickets) (post-COVID)Affinity group outreach and sponsorship
The Outreach Committee currently meets for one hour on the 2nd Monday of every month at 2:00 pm ET. Meetings are held on Microsoft Teams. If you are passionate about Community Outreach and .NET Advocacy, we would love to hear from you! To join the committee and the meetings, _please request to join the outreach team and then post a message there with your desire to be added to the meeting invite.
We have several ongoing Outreach initiatives that will benefit from motivated Foundation members who can commit some of their volunteer time toward making the .NET ecosystem more welcoming and robust for communities around the world.
To participate in the .NET Virtual Meetup or to have your local community's meeetup streamed on the .NET Foundation YouTube account, please submit your meetup information via this form. You can read more about the Virtual Meetups at .NET Foundation Virtual Meetups.
Recently, the Outreach Committee has taken the first steps toward its goal of empowering leaders and contributors in growing .NET communities in underrepresented areas around the world. We already know that amazing developers and community organizers can be found everywhere. Our goal—working with leaders in Africa, South Asia, and South and Central America—is to promote the work of these communities and to foster improved cross-collaboration and learning among such geographically widespread and diverse developers.
The Outreach Committee is actively shepherding an effort to create a global .NET speaker directory. If you are a speaker from anywhere around the world, and you want to help user groups and conferences find you for .NET topics, the speaker directory can help!
We are about empowering you and your organizations. If you have an idea of how we can help, please post an Issue in the GitHub repository for the working group. You can see more about the proposal process (still a work-in-progress) in our guide to proposals.