A–List Issue #6 - August 2018

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News

Open Change

“Why Software Is Eating The World” was published by Marc Andreessen nearly a decade ago. In that time, Open Source has eaten not only all of software, but all of technology. It’s the single best way businesses have found to commoditize their compliments to protect the platforms they want to control. Read Here.

ECMA and TC39

Members of the Node.js project have begun engaging with TC39 helping better define the needs of the ECMAScript spec and the JavaScript language as it evolves. Much of ECMAScript's history and evolution has been defined by the needs of browser vendors. Today's full stack world has evolved and Node.js is directly hosting or indirectly executing today's JavaScript tooling. The need for collaboration is greater than ever.

Strategic Initiatives

Standards and Governance for Node.js and the Web Platform

ECMA TC39: ECMAScript, the JavaScript Spec - Get involved

• SEP 25-27: TC39 66th meeting - at PayPal in New York, NY
• NOV 27-29: TC39 67th meeting - at Apple in Cupertino, CA
• JAN 29-31: TC39 68th meeting - at GoDaddy in Scottsdale, AZ
• MAR 26-28: TC39 69th meeting - at Google in New York, NY
• JUN 04-06: TC39 70th meeting - at JSConf EU in Berlin, Germany
• JUL 23-25: TC39 71st meeting - at Microsoft in Redmond, WA

Events

2018

• AUG 14: Always Forward with dshaw: Understanding ECMA TC39
• AUG 21-23: JSConf US 2018 – Carlsbad, CA
• SEP 9: NodeConf NG 2018 - Lagos, Nigeria
• SEP 11: Always Forward with dshaw: Dev Related on HTTP/2 - with @tzmanics
• OCT 10-12: JS Interactive - Vancouver, BC, Canada
• OCT 12-13: Node.js Collaborator Summit – Vancouver, BC, Canada
• NOV 11-13: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018 - Shanghai, China
• NOV 15-16: CascadiaJS 2018 – Seattle, WA
• DEC 10-13: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 - Seattle, WA

2019

• FEB: JSConf Hawaiʻi - Honolulu, HI

Global Political Action

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I am Dan Shaw AKA dshaw. Stay up-to-date with dshaw — A List.

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Closing this! LGTM 🎉