OpenJS World 2023 – Celebrating Innovation in the JavaScript Ecosystem

It’s day one of OpenJS World, the OpenJS Foundation’s semi-annual event bringing together the JavaScript and web development communities! 

Want to network and find out how you can get more involved in JavaScript? OpenJS World covers the broad spectrum of the JavaScript ecosystem, including technical content from OpenJS Foundation open source projects and much more. Be sure to tune in virtually for the remaining sessions this week: Virtual registration here.

The full schedule is available here, including talks by the OpenJS Foundation’s executive director Robin Ginn, Ethan Arrowood from Vercel, Abby Cabunoc Mayes from GitHub, Kazuhito Yokoi from Hitachi and many more!

We’re excited to share the progress of our members and projects this week at OpenJS World, read on to find out what’s new this week!

Meta Joins the OpenJS Foundation

Meta has joined the OpenJS Foundation as a gold member! Meta Open Source has been key in creating and open sourcing many projects crucial to the JavaScript ecosystem, such as React, Jest, and Flow. Last year, Meta contributed its popular JavaScript testing project Jest to OpenJS, which garnered an enthusiastic response from developers for this community-led project.

More details are available in our blog post.

Major Commitment to Security and Stability

The OpenJS Foundation has achieved significant milestones this year focused on improving JavaScript security. Last week, we announced that the Sovereign Tech Fund, financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, awarded the OpenJS Foundation EUR 875,000 (USD 902,000). This largest ever government investment in a Linux Foundation project will allow us to deliver infrastructure updates across our project portfolio through a single-scalable solution and develop and deliver security and maintenance policies and practices for critical projects.

Additionally, our continued work with OpenSSF’s Project Alpha-Omega has granted funding for both Node.js and jQuery this year. Alpha-Omega is committing $300,000 to focus on improving supply chain security by improving Node.js security infrastructure. The funding is bolstering the Node.js security team and vulnerability remediation efforts, with a focus on supporting better open source security standards and practices. It was started in 2022 and renewed in 2023. Alpha-Omega is also committing another $350,000 to reduce potential security incidents for jQuery by helping modernize its consumers and its code. OpenJS, working with the jQuery maintainers and industry experts, will conduct an ecosystem risk audit, work on an expansion of its infrastructure modernization project, and build and promote a web modernization campaign for awareness and buy-in.

Championing our Community with Awards and Discounts!

At OpenJS World today, we are announcing our second annual JavaScriptLandia award members, showcasing an incredible array of creativity, diversity and energy – check them out in our blog post! Maybe you can be one of the winners next year!

Also, if you’re interested in improving your technical skills and understanding how you do on vendor-neutral certification tests, we have a OpenJS World-only discount available for you. We’re offering 60% off Node.js Training and Certification bundles with code OPENJSWORLD2023.

Certification is an important component of building and strengthening the JavaScript ecosystem. Certified developers can quickly establish credibility and value in the job market. Certification also allows companies to locate and hire high-quality teams to support their growth.

We hope you’ll tune in virtually to our event this week! After OpenJS World is over, we’ll have the videos up on our YouTube page to view on demand.

Happy OpenJS World!