Tomas Petricek and Phillip Trelford started the F# Software Foundation in 2012 as an informal, community run organization with the goal of promoting and providing a community voice for the F# Programming language. They setup fsharp.org as a community managed website for resources surrounding the F# programming language, including general information, educational resources.
The organization quickly grew, and became the maintainers of many of the open-source F# code repositories and educational resources, including the open edition of the F# compiler for cross platform use and the F# Language specification. Technical working groups of key community members were also formed to help support and promote F# usage in academia and various industries and to consolidate resources.
In 2014, organizers of the F# Software Foundation, including the original founders, decided that the growth of the F# Software Foundation warranted a formal organization, and that a legal structure would benefit the overall goals and mission of the informal organization. In late 2014, the F# Software Foundation was formed as a non-profit Corporation within the State of Nevada in the United States, with resources associated with the original information organization moved under the umbrella of the legal entity.
Founding members
The F# Software Foundation began as an informal organization formed by the F# community members listed alphabetically below, with feedback from a number of other F# community members. The FSSF would like to humbly thank all of the Founding Members of this informal organization, as well as all other F# community members involved in the creation and formation of the informal organization. Without your dedication and hard work, the F# Software Foundation would not exist today.
- Tony Abel
- Isaac Abraham
- Adil Akhter
- Stefan Alfbo
- Piet Amersfoort
- Natallie Baikevich
- Matt Ball
- Chris Ballard
- Victor Baybekov
- Gene Belitski
- Aggelos Biboudis
- Paulmichael Blasucci
- Samuel Bosch
- Mathias Brandewinder
- Anthony Brown
- Colin Bull
- Onorio Catenacci
- Andrew Cherry
- Homi Chothia
- Eric Christensen
- Michael Ciccotti
- Antonio Cisternino
- Quinton Coetzee
- Reed Copsey, Jr.
- Simon Cousins
- Robert Croud
- Yan Cui
- Heather Cynede
- Kunjan Dalal
- Mark Dalgarno
- Neil Danson
- Loïc Denuzière
- Tommy Doherty
- Kit Eason
- Dave Elliman
- Aaron Erickson
- John B Fair
- Dave Fancher
- Henrik Feldt
- Jomo Fisher
- Steffen Forkmann
- Jack Fox
- James Freiwirth
- Shaun Fuchs
- Rod Furlan
- Fabio Galuppo
- Juan M Gómez
- Adam Granicz
- Gustavo Guerra
- Torbjörn Gyllebring
- Michael Reichhardt Hansen
- Matt Harrington
- Ronnie Holm
- Chris Holt
- Joel Huang
- Bryan Hunter
- Samin Ishtiaq
- Robert Jeppesen
- Torben Rahbek Koch
- Carsten König
- Dawid Kowalski
- Jonathan Leonard
- Petr Lepilov
- Tao Liu
- Eric Lynn
- Julian Mackintosh
- Max Malook
- David Marr
- Ramón Soto Mathiesen
- Patrick McDonald
- Ross McKinlay
- Anders Mellson
- Cesar Mendoza
- Richard Minerich
- Daniel Mohl
- Matthew Moloney
- Pavel Motuzenko
- Muigai Mwaura
- Phil Nash
- César Octavio López Natarén
- Robin Neatherway
- Adrian Newman
- Michael Newton
- Christian Nielsen
- Karl Nilsson
- Allen O’Neill
- Nick Palladinos
- Simon Parker
- Mark Pearl
- Andre Pemmelaar
- Morgan Persson
- Tomas Petricek
- Anh-Dung Phan
- Matthew Podwysocki
- Rachel Reese
- Ryan Riley
- Hans Rischel
- Tim Robinson
- Daniel Robinson
- Nicolas Rolland
- Goswin Rothenthal
- Christoph Rüegg
- Ian Russell
- Enrico Sada
- Rainer Schmidt
- Mark Seemann
- Dmitry Sevastianov
- Vijesh Shah
- Keith Sheppard
- Dmitry Slutsky
- Will Smith
- Dmitry Soshnikov
- Helge Stahlmann
- Gareth Stoyle
- José Luis D’Andrade Suero
- Don Syme
- Cameron Taggart
- John Tarbox
- Anton Tayanovskyy
- Steven Taylor
- Ben Taylor
- Robin Taylor
- Riccardo Terrell
- David Thayer
- Dave Thomas
- Sergey Tihon
- Bogdan Tira
- Phil Trelford
- Eirik Tsarpalis
- Aidan Twomey
- Nikolay Ulmasov
- John Usher
- Rodrigo Vidal
- Tony Wiliams