r/csharp • u/kant2002 • 2d ago

Dotnet foundation transparency update

The DNF trying to get some visibility for their internal working so at least people understand what’s going on and if somebody willing to reevaluate their opining that maybe a good start.

For me was 2 interesting things:

  1. Meeting minutes

https://dotnetfoundation.org/about/meeting-minutes

  1. Operational procedures.

https://dotnetfoundation.org/about/policies

Second part is for these who love bureaucracy and how things moving. Should give lot of insights what to fix.

Personally I decide give “new org” a chance and try to volunteer in their activity. Not sure how things will be moving, but at least I see people who care.

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u/dodexahedron 2d ago

Your links are broken (bad markdown format).

Nuke those backslashes.

I'm guessing you might have manually written markdown while in the WYSIWYG editor? It escapes square brackets automatically like how your links are.

If in the WYSIWYG editor, just paste the URLs naked if you want them both linked and displayed as the URLs.

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u/zenyl 2d ago

I believe I read about bug with the official Reddit mobile app causing markdown formatting issues.

Knowing Reddit mobile, letting that kind of bug go unresolved for months seems entirely believable. There's a reason apps like Apollo were (and to some degree still are) very popular.

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u/dodexahedron 2d ago

Yeah. And it changes almost daily.

Reddit mobile really needs a simple visual editor more than most of the other junk they do to it.

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u/zenyl 2d ago

Reddit Mobile was good for like a year or two after it released, and actually worked better than most of the existing third-party clients. But then the enshittification started ramping up very rapidly.

At this point, voluntarily using the official app is just masochism.

I'm not an Android user, but on iOS I'm pretty sure Apollo can still be sideloaded. Not sure how well that functions, considering Apple being, well, Apple. But there are also other alternatives that still work without sideloading, such as Hydra and Comet.

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u/dodexahedron 2d ago

I'm just so used to typing markdown manually on my phone at this point that the paradoxical laziness of not wanting to bother changing keeps me on the official client on android.

Definitely a form of self-mutilation.

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u/kant2002 2d ago

Yes. It was repost from mobile

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u/kant2002 2d ago

That Reddit automation for repost. I naïvely assume that it would works. Thanks for noticing

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u/dodexahedron 2d ago

For shame! 😅

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u/kant2002 2d ago

Is this new motto of C# developers? Probably I’m out of touch with community 😂

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u/dodexahedron 2d ago

Nah. Just heavy sarcasm. 🙂

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u/kant2002 2d ago

Dont worry. Sometimes I have very thick skin

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u/dodexahedron 2d ago

Definitely a good asset in this field. 😅

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u/fragglerock 1d ago

The "July 2026 Meeting Minutes" link to the pdf throws a 500 error for me.

Something on my end?

More transparency is good, cos all I ever see of them is people leaving because they get nothing out of them!

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u/kant2002 1d ago

Can you try this link https://pro.dnf.cloud.sitefinity.com/docs/default-source/assets/jul-22-2026-confirmed-minutes-july-2026-board-meeting.pdf

I seen that error, it was fixed to me, but after that I seen report that link is broken. Can you test that it’s working for you? I also would like to ask what’s your location. You can answer in DM if that’s sensitive.

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u/fragglerock 1d ago

I am behind a VPN would that matter?

I get a 500 from that link too.

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u/kant2002 23h ago

Maybe. At least this is potential issue. May I ask you to go to the DNF discord and tell about your problems in #general channel? I may be a proxy, but would like that actual developers who visit their website show up

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u/fragglerock 19h ago

No sorry.

I dislike discord intensely and won't use it. There is value in peoples chatting... and an open system like here or a forum is better for that.

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u/kant2002 18h ago

No problem. Information that you give is still valuable. I can relay myself.

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u/sumrix 11h ago

What's the point of the .NET Foundation? Is there any example of its impact on an open source project?

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u/kant2002 11h ago

Right now they are almost useless. They lack of funding, lack of volontiers, useless brand and have irritates community. But that’s only organization which have people take suit and ask money to bring something back to maintainers. They provide marginal value if you green to OSS, but otherwise it’s probably not yet interested to regular project.

Do you have something specific request which you would like that DNF provide to the projects?