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The CodePlex Foundation, the open-source organization spun out of Microsoft a year ago, has changed its name to the Outercurve Foundation.

Microsoft helped launch the CodePlex Foundation in 2009 as an organization to enable the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities. However, Microsoft also maintained its own CodePlex.com open source project hosting Website with the same name as the spun-out organization, causing a bit of confusion for some in the industry.

Thus, the rebranding, which was undertaken to reduce confusion and differentiate the not for profit foundation from the Microsoft owned and operated forge CodePlex.com, comes a year after the foundation's launch.

However, in that time the foundation has developed a governance model, hired executive and technical management and elected an independent Board of Directors. Additionally the foundation created a project acceptance and management process that enables it to accept and support contributed open source projects -- six projects have been accepted to date.

"We accomplished a great deal in our first year and have been successful engaging with the FOSS [Free and Open Source Software] community and corporate and independent developers," said Paula Hunter, executive director of the Outercurve Foundation, in a statement. "The name 'Outercurve Foundation' speaks to our ambition to be a foundation on the leading edge of the open-source world, representing the interests of the growing audience of developers and corporations engaging with the traditional FOSS community."