Microsoft and Xamarin are looking to broaden community involvement with the .NET Foundation, the group charged with overseeing a number of open-sourced .NET-related technologies.

From the truth-is- stranger-than-fiction files, Microsoft -- along with its mobile-dev tool partner Xamarin -- is creating a new foundation to open source more .Net technologies.

Microsoft open-sourced Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Forms, and Windows UI XAML Library (WinUI). Plus, the .NET Foundation is opening up.

The .NET Foundation is moving to a new governance model to help with its oversight of Microsoft's open-sourcing of the .NET development environment.

In total, the .NET foundation will start with 24 .NET open source projects that it will take under its stewardship. Those include the .NET Compiler Platform (previously known under the codename ...