<story><title>Node.js Foundation and JavaScript Foundation Announce Intent to Merge</title><url>https://www.linuxfoundation.org/news/2018/10/node-js-foundation-and-js-foundation-announce-intent-to-create-joint-organization-to-support-the-broad-node-js-and-javascript-communities/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>EB66</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not really happy to hear about this. To me, it demonstrates that the JS Foundation continues to focus on the wrong priorities. They&amp;#x27;ve thoroughly neglected their stewardship responsibilities for a number of different open source projects. They&amp;#x27;ve seen a reduction in sponsorship&amp;#x2F;funding for maintaining projects and they&amp;#x27;ve pulled back from GSoC and other events that were essential in drawing in new open source contributors.&lt;p&gt;On top of all that, they&amp;#x27;ve piled on bureaucracy and alienated many important long-time contributors: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;globalizejs&amp;#x2F;globalize&amp;#x2F;pull&amp;#x2F;703&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;globalizejs&amp;#x2F;globalize&amp;#x2F;pull&amp;#x2F;703&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite their slogan &amp;quot;The Center of Gravity in the Javascript Ecosystem&amp;quot;, these days, the JS Foundation is largely an irrelevant organization. I see this merge as a last ditch effort to retain some sort of relevancy. They&amp;#x27;ve abandoned their roots as a center of innovation. I see no effort to pivot their existing dying projects to compete in today&amp;#x27;s JS ecosystem dominated by component-based SPA frameworks.</text></comment>
<story><title>Node.js Foundation and JavaScript Foundation Announce Intent to Merge</title><url>https://www.linuxfoundation.org/news/2018/10/node-js-foundation-and-js-foundation-announce-intent-to-create-joint-organization-to-support-the-broad-node-js-and-javascript-communities/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>monsieurbanana</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s the first time I heard of the Javascript Foundation. What&amp;#x27;s exactly it&amp;#x27;s purpose? Founding the projects it hosts?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;js.foundation&amp;#x2F;community&amp;#x2F;projects&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;js.foundation&amp;#x2F;community&amp;#x2F;projects&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>