Closing Ceremony

with Jay Schmelzer, Beth Massi, Immo Landwerth and Martin Woodward
Hi Martin Woodward, You also manage a site called "CodePlex", which used to be a hot place for new MS related OSS Projects. But it appears that the last couple of years you have spent minimal amount on resources on this site, which badly needs a makeover. I host a very popular Visual Studio add-in on the site , and generate a lot of traffic to it. What are your future plans for codeplex.com? Possible paths:
1: Start investing in new features/integrations (integration with VSO and appveyor for build, for example, and a UI makeover,and groom the wish/bugs list and bring it Down.
2: Provide a feature/tooling to migrate most of a Projects content to github: Source code, preferably incl history, but acceptable without,, issues, wiki pages, front page and project decription/tags
Any news/plans to Open Source LightSwitch, XNA, VB6, ... ? (I'm sorry to be so annoying/persistent, but a lot of people besides me want to know). Thanks.
MS Opentech did a great job bringing OpenGL based frameworks (such as Openframeworks) to Windows. Now that the subsidary is merged with Microsoft what's the future of that work?
is there any news about WPF support on Linux and OSX ?
@AnisSG- at the moment the focus for most of the engineering groups working on the open source elements of .NET is to target the server workloads. That's what the vast majority of the Linux machines on the planet are busy doing now and we want .NET to be on as many machines as possible so serer workloads are at the top of their priorities. Getting the current WPF api's to work against a mixed set of platforms, windows managers and native UI frameworks is a non-trivial engineering effort that grows exponentially especially when you put OS versions into the equation (just look at things in the Java world like AWT and SWT which are more equivalent to WebForms)
@batpox - no news I'm afraid. I'm sure you'll hear about if it happens ;)
@pmelendez - the MS Open tech projects are being brought into MS Corp. See the following link for more details on the future for the MS Open Tech team https://msopentech.com/blog/2015/04/17/nextchapter/
I get to work with many of them every day (and continue to do so). It's very excited to see the transition in Microsoft's approach to open source that they have been driving.