OpenJS World

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!

Reginé Gilbert, Industry Assistant Professor at NYU, presented on Creating Inclusive and Accessible Experiences at OpenJS World 2022 this past June. As Reginé stated, “we are responsible for creating worlds of experiences and systems that impact millions of people – with lasting impacts.”

The presentation began with Reginé sharing the importance of inclusion and accessibility in today’s world. She then followed by listing the five key elements of accessibility culture and then gave an overview of the importance of each element. Reginé shared various social media accessibility practices and provided an example of social media accessibility features being used along with common accessibility issues. From this, Reginé concludes with a variety of action items for the audience to practice in their own work to move from awareness to action. 

Full keynote available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7NPlTPE4mI 

Main Sections:

0:00 Introduction 

0:29 Inclusion

1:26 Accessibility 

4:39 Culture

6:05 Social Media accessibility practices 

13:53 Common accessibility issues

16:29 Things to consider when creating experiences

19:51 Moving from awareness to action

21:16 Closing

Main OpenJS Resources: 

Main Site: https://openjsf.org/ 

Blog: https://openjsf.org/blog/ 

Join: https://openjsf.org/about/join/ 

Certification: https://openjsf.org/certification/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/openjsf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openjs-foundation/

Cory Doctorow, Science Fiction Author, Activist, and Journalist, gave a short presentation on technology scaling up, Competitive Compatibility (“ComCom”), and tech laws relevant to open source. Cory began the presentation by sharing certain practices of big tech firms like Facebook. He continued by mentioning problems with certain tech laws and the idea of restoring ComCom, as well as a real-world example. Cory closed the presentation with the element of government procurement and invited the audience to check out a couple of resources that can assist in such issues. 

Full keynote available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPlQufpzywc 

Main Sections:

0:00 Introduction

0:50 Technology scaling up

3:51 Interop

5:24 Problems with tech laws 

9:15 Restoring ComCom

11:36 Real-world example

14:51 ComCom and mandates

16:10 Element of government procurement 

17:16 Closing

Main OpenJS Resources: 

Main Site: https://openjsf.org/ 

Blog: https://openjsf.org/blog/ 

Join: https://openjsf.org/about/join/ 

Certification: https://openjsf.org/certification/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/openjsf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openjs-foundation/

Continuing on in our OpenJS World Keynote Series, we’re highlighting a presentation on Embracing Open Source to Beat the Great Reshuffle from the June conference. To view all of the keynotes and presentations, please visit the OpenJS YouTube Channel.

Joe Sepi, Program Director of Open Technology at IBM, gave a presentation on IBM practices to embrace open source to beat the great reshuffle. Integrating open source at the core makes good sense from a business perspective in a variety of ways. In this keynote, Joe focused on the people part of the benefits, from talent to culture. Empowering employees to be authentically engaged in open source can provide access to an excellent hiring pipeline, help insulate companies against the “great reshuffling,” and bring greater returns on investments.

Full keynote available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxQkNVn9niM 

Main Sections

0:00 Introduction

3:14 Open Source at IBM 

4:25 Before Open Source was cool

8:02 Open Source contributions through time

9:08 Closing and thank you!

Main OpenJS Resources

Main Site: https://openjsf.org/ 

Blog: https://openjsf.org/blog/ 

Join: https://openjsf.org/about/join/ 

Certification: https://openjsf.org/certification/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/openjsf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openjs-foundation/

Continuing our OpenJS World Keynote Series, we’re highlighting a keynote on The State of JavaScript Supply Chain Security. To view all of the keynotes from the conference, please visit the OpenJS YouTube Channel.

Feross Aboukhadijeh, Founder & CEO of Socket, presented on the current state of software supply chain security in JavaScript at OpenJS World 2022 in June. Software supply chain attacks have exploded since 2021 and are accelerating in 2022. 

In the presentation, Feross provided examples of recent supply chain attacks and what concrete steps we can take as an ecosystem to protect ourselves from this emerging threat. Feross highlighted certain packages, their security issues, and things to look for to practice open source in the safest way. Feross continued his presentation by also sharing tools and systems that can assist in protecting against malware. Finally, the presentation closed with a “JavaScript Security Wishlist” and other goals for the community to aim for.

Full keynote available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxLEjzi9rXQ 

Main Sections:

0:00 Introduction

1:25 Hacker story share 

6:00 Tip of the iceberg

7:17 Why is it happening now?

11:55 How does a supply chain attack actually work?

17:18 How can you protect your app?

21:14 How quickly should you update?

22:53 Standard dependency checklist 

25:10 What about a package doing something sketchy?

25:26 What about Malware?

30:50 Closing 

Main OpenJS Resources: 

Main Site: https://openjsf.org/ 

Blog: https://openjsf.org/blog/ 

Join: https://openjsf.org/about/join/ 

Certification: https://openjsf.org/certification/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/openjsf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openjs-foundation/

In the fourth post of our OpenJS World Keynote Series, we’re highlighting a keynote on The Human API. To view all of the keynotes from the conference, please visit the OpenJS YouTube Channel.