http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/tags/open+source/default.aspxTags: open sourceen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/archive/2008/08/07/codeplex-turns-2.aspxThu, 07 Aug 2008 07:42:00 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3101922John Martin0http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/comments/3101922.aspxhttp://blogs.technet.com/johmar/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3101922http://blogs.technet.com/johmar/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=3101922<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Happy Birthday! :-)<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tonight, Soma blogged on <A title="CodePlex Celebrates its 2nd Birthday" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/08/06/codeplex-celebrates-its-2nd-birthday.aspx" target=_blank mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/08/06/codeplex-celebrates-its-2nd-birthday.aspx"><FONT color=#800080>CodePlex's 2nd birthday...</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><EM><SPAN style="mso-themecolor: text1"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">It seems like only recently, but is has been&nbsp;two years since we launched </SPAN></SPAN></EM><EM><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="http://www.codeplex.com/" mce_href="http://www.codeplex.com/">CodePlex</A><SPAN style="mso-themecolor: dark2"><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-themecolor: text1"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">We launched this in Summer 2006 as Microsoft’s open source project hosting site. Our goal was, and continues to be, to provide developers with the ability to collaborate on open source projects</SPAN></SPAN> using the tools they are most familiar with...</SPAN></EM><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">One of things that fascinates me about CodePlex is how surprised developers often are to find out that CodePlex is a Microsoft site! <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">To learn more, check out the <A title="CodePlex Team Blog" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/codeplex/" target=_blank mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/codeplex/"><FONT color=#800080>CodePlex team blog</FONT></A> for the <A title="Top 5 Myths &amp; Facts" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/codeplex/archive/2008/08/06/top-5-myths-and-facts-about-codeplex.aspx" target=_blank mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/codeplex/archive/2008/08/06/top-5-myths-and-facts-about-codeplex.aspx"><FONT color=#800080>Top 5 Myths &amp; Facts about CodePlex</FONT></A>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P mce_keep="true">&nbsp;</P><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3101922" width="1" height="1">Codeplexopen source