An independent group of volunteers within Microsoft has successfully open sourced and forked Windows Live Writer. The fork is called Open Live Writer (also known as OLW) and it is part of the .NET Foundation and managed by this group of volunteers.  

The following high-level features are planned for the ASP.NET Core 2.1 release:

SignalR - Real-time web framework on ASP.NET Core (aspnet/SignalR#394)
HTTPS - On by default and easy to configure (aspnet/Home#2308)
GDPR compliance - Templates updated with new privacy features (aspnet/Security#1561, aspnet/Identity#1341)
Web API conventions - Rich Swagger support without attributes (aspnet/Mvc#6870, aspnet/Mvc#6784)
IHttpClientFactory - HttpClient as a service, handle cross-cutting concerns like caching, retry logic, timeouts and circuit breakers (aspnet/HttpClientFactory#42)
ASP.NET Core Module in-proc hosting - 6x the throughput on IIS! Better startup error handling (aspnet/AspNetCoreModule#265)
Razor pages improvements - Support for areas, ~/Pages/Shared (aspnet/Mvc#6926, aspnet/Mvc#7193)
MVC functional test fixture - Easily test your MVC apps end-to-end (aspnet/Mvc#6233)
Build-time Razor - Compile Razor pages and views as part of your build, improved startup performance (aspnet/Razor#1809)
UI as a library - Package Razor pages and views as reusable libraries (aspnet/Razor#1809)
Identity UI package and scaffolder - Add identity to any application (aspnet/Home#2311)
WebHooks - Handle WebHook notifications from ASP.NET Core apps (aspnet/WebHooks#5)

KeyValue Databases e.g Riak, Redis, Berkeley DB, CouchBase etc.

Document Databases e.g MongoDB, CounchDB, OrientDB etc.

Column Family Databases e.g Cassandra, HBase, Amazon DynamoDB etc.

Graph Databases e.g Neo4J, OrientDB etc.