io.js Week of May 15th

io.js move to the Node Foundation, other community updates and events

io.js News

We are happy to announce this news, “io.js decides to join the Node Foundation”. And our organization name will be renamed nodejs.

As a first step, we will move from iojs organization to nodejs organization and will converge joyent/node gradually. We will continue to release io.js until the convergence have done.

If you would like to see the convergence plan in detail, please check it at jasnell repo. When you would like to ask questions, feel free to ask @Fishrock123. The discussion log is here.

Community Updates

• Performance Showdown: Node.js vs. io.js v2.0.0.
• Microsoft has node.js running on their JavaScript VM Chakra.
• {node,io}.js benchmark graphs.
• TC members decide to move io.js to Node Foundation and the organization name will be renamed nodejs.
• Hardware WG Meeting on YouTube.
• io.js/node.js Build Convergence Meeting on YouTube.
• TC Meeting on YouTube.

Upcoming Events

• NodeConf Adventure tickets are on sale, June 11th — 14th at Walker Creek Ranch, CA
• CascadiaJS tickets are on sale, July 8th — 10th at Washington State
• BrazilJS Conf tickets are on sale, August 21st — 22nd at Shopping Center BarraShoppingSul
• NodeConf EU tickets are on sale, September 6th — 9th at Waterford, Ireland