OpenJS Foundation Public Board of Directors Meetings- July 24, 2026

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The OpenJS Foundation Public Board of Directors meeting held on July 24th officially opened with a warm welcome from Robin, who noted the correction of the date from June to July in the presentation slides. A significant highlight of the session was the formal introduction of new board members and the election of Abby as the new board president, marking an exciting transition for the leadership team. The meeting agenda focused on reviewing minutes from the previous public session, which were unanimously approved by motion, followed by updates from the Community Planning Committee (CPC) and the marketing department to keep all stakeholders informed on recent developments. During the CPC update segment, Joe reported on a successful initiative where projects present their status and needs directly to the committee to foster collaboration. jQuery delivered its first project presentation of this new format, demonstrating how the foundation can better support its ecosystem members, while Electron has volunteered to be the next presenter. Although recent agendas have been lighter due to other priorities, the foundation remains committed to engaging with these projects. The marketing update provided by Kylie detailed significant progress across social media channels, including the successful launch of the Open Viz working group, security updates for Cosmos GL, and the recent joining of SQL Rooms to the foundation. A major focus of the marketing discussion was the upcoming Render ATL event scheduled for August 12th through 13th in Atlanta, which features a curated lineup of speakers discussing topics centered around AI and Node.js. Kylie announced that the foundation had finally surpassed its 10,000 follower milestone on LinkedIn, reaching 10.1K after months of close proximity to that goal, a achievement driven by increased engagement from recent announcements. Additionally, Robin highlighted a special sponsorship from the Harper team for their "Code and Learn" session, which aims to modernize Node.js contribution guidance and assist new developers, particularly those interested in leveraging AI tools to start contributing to the project. The meeting concluded with expressions of gratitude from the board members toward the staff and working group participants for their consistent weekly efforts and dedication to the foundation's growth. With no further business items remaining on the agenda, Robin formally closed the public session, thanking everyone for their contributions and hard work throughout the year. The atmosphere remained positive and collaborative as the board members dispersed, reinforcing the strong community spirit that defines the OpenJS Foundation's operations.

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Awesome. And now we're going to open up the OpenJS Foundation board meeting public session. Uh call it to order at 12:18 p.m. Eastern. Take away, Robin. >> Great, thanks, Abby. Welcome, everyone. Uh it is July. I think our slides said June. It's July 24th. So, uh welcome. We're going to uh go through minutes from our last meeting, uh have a CPC update, and then a marketing update. Um again, like to welcome our board. We do have some new faces, but uh and Kylie actually just posted a blog about our new board members, so welcome. Um but also want to uh give a shout-out to Abby who is elected as our new uh board president moving forward, so excited to have you uh take on that honor. Thanks. Now, I'll hand it to Kate for the meeting minutes. >> Hi. So, I sent around the June minutes for the public session. Does anyone want to motion to approve? >> Motion to approve. >> Thank you. Does anyone second? >> I can second. >> Thank you. Any opposed? Any abstain? Great. Thank you. Motion passes. >> Great, thanks, everyone. Uh CPC update, Joe. You want to fill us in? >> [clears throat] >> Sure. Um so uh we have this great idea of projects presenting to the CPC on um you know, where they're at and what they're doing and any ways that we can uh be helpful uh and whatnot. And so, um jQuery gave their first project presentation. Uh there's a a link there, but I'm sure you can find it on the OpenJS uh YouTube uh uh you know, page. Um so, that was great and Electron has volunteered to go next. So, we're going to work with scheduling them soon. Otherwise, you know, things have been light agendas lately and digging into other stuff. >> Great. Thank you. >> Mhm. >> Marketing update, Kylie. >> All right. Hi, everyone. Couple updates for you on marketing. We can hit that next slide. I always like to include the stuff we've been up to lately on our socials. Some awesome updates from our Open Viz working group. There were some updates to Cosmos GL and then SQL Rooms joined the foundation about a month ago. So, super excited on the progress they're making in that working group. We had a couple security updates this month and then we announced our Render ATL schedule as well. So, we have an awesome lineup of speakers. So, be sure to check it out. We can go to the next one. I'll talk about our social stats. So, we're up on all of our channels. It was a great month and I just want to say thank you to everyone cuz we passed 10K on LinkedIn, which is a metric I was trying to reach for a bit now. I know I we've been so close the past 2 months, but we finally crossed it in June. We're at 10.1K on LinkedIn. So, that's super exciting. With our announcement of Render ATL speakers and some security updates, our LinkedIn impressions were way up as well as well as our Twitter impressions. So, love to see that. Node channels were a little bit up, mostly consistent though. So, that's looking pretty good as well. All right. We can go to the next one. So, speaking of Render ATL, we'd love for you to join us August 12th through 13th in Atlanta. We have a full track of awesome speakers that we curated for you. So be sure to check out our blog for the details on our speakers and what they are talking about. We have a great kind of lineup of topics surrounding AI and Node.js. So be sure to check that out and then if you'd like to register, there's a link in our blog or you can hit the Render ATL site as well. Yeah, I think that's it for me today. That's my last slide. So Robin, I'll pass it back to you. >> Great, thanks. Yeah, just want to add at Render the Harper team has sponsored a code and learn and if you've been around the Node project for the last 15 years that's something that a lot of folks Rich Trott and I think James and probably Matteo worked on over the time and it's been modernized and using a lot of you know the stuff that worked and then stuff that will help people who want to learn how to contribute to Node for the first time particularly with AI all happening and Node the Node project has guidance on that. So yeah, if you have a couple of days it'd be great to to have you there. So that's all I have. Is there any other business from the rest of the board or staff? No, great. Well, thanks everyone for your great work and thanks I know I see all the board members all the time every week at so many different working groups. So I appreciate all that you do. Abby, I'll bring it back to you. >> That concludes the Open JS Foundation board meeting. Thanks everyone. >> Yeah, thanks. >> Thanks. >> Bye.