Node.js开源项目变为开放管理模式

2014年10月23号，Joyent宣布node.js开源项目变为开放管理模式，并宣布成立顾问委员会，代表来自BM,Netflix, npm, nearForm, NodeSource, PayPal, StrongLoop, Walmart, Yahoo等公司。

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原文：

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 23, 2014) - Joyent, Inc., thecorporate steward of the Node.js open source project, today announced aproposal for the creation of a Node.js Advisory Board, which serves as asignificant first step toward a fully open governance
model. Initial advisoryboard members represent a wide swath of the Node.js community including Node.jscore contributors, community members and Node.js vendors, includingrepresentatives from IBM, Netflix, npm, nearForm, NodeSource, PayPal,StrongLoop, Walmart,
Yahoo, and others. The board will provide input andguidance to Node.js project leadership about the roadmap, policies andprocedures, governance of the core team, criteria for compliant products, andoperating governance structure.

Node.js is the language of choice for high-performance, low latencyapplications, powering everything from robots to API engines to cloud stacksand mobile websites. Over the last two years, more and more large enterpriseshave adopted Node.js as part of their
enterprise fabric. Today, Node.js is usedby tens of thousands of organizations in over 200 countries and amasses over 2million downloads a month.

"With such rapid adoption over the last few years, the communitysurrounding Node.js has become increasingly rich and complex -- and it willonly continue to grow," said Scott Hammond, CEO of Joyent. "It's crucialwe find ways to balance the needs of all constituents
and users of Node.js andprovide a platform for these diverse organizations to collaborate and provideinput to project leadership. In order to create a truly trusted playing field,we need to engage the energized community of contributors and maintainersaround
Node.js."

Thefull Node.js Advisory Board draft proposal is available for feedback, commentsand membership nominations at http://nodejs.org/about/advisory-board. In orderto achieve balanced membership, board seats will be allocated to thoseinvesting time
and effort to contribute to the project, users deployingNode.js, companies incorporating Node.js into their products, and outsideexpertise from other open source projects. Membership requires no sponsorshipor fee. The selection process and output from board
meetings will be madepublicly available and seats will be allocated as follows:
Two individual seats for top core technical maintainers (excluding employees at Joyent or companies holding a corporate seat)
Up to eight additional seats: four corporate and four users
One curator seat
One OSS seat
Node.js core technical project lead TJ Fontaine
Theselection process will be open, transparent, and guided by objective criteriadetailed in the full proposal. Numerous members of the Node.js community helpedin the development of this proposal and the formation of a temporary list ofboard
members, available at http://nodejs.org/about/advisory-board/members. Thecommunity-elected members will be finalized over the next few months.
"Theestablishment of an advisory board and open governance will foster communitytransparency and greater innovation," said Angel Diaz, Vice President, IBMOpen Technology and Cloud Performance. "IBM is excited the community hasdecided to take
this first step to building an open structure for allcontributors and consumers of Node.js."
"Over the past half a decade, I've watched the community around Node.jsproliferate into an incredibly rich, active ecosystem of contributors,"said Bill Scott, VP Business Engineering, Product Development at PayPal."We've all worked in tandem to achieve what
Node.js has become today andwe couldn't be more excited to witness this next chapter of truly opengovernance. Openness is what Node.js is built on and the formation of theadvisory board cements the importance of transparency and synergy."

"We know firsthand why Node.js is a popular choice for thousands oforganizations worldwide," said Gianugo Rabellino, senior director of opensource communities at Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. "Forming a boardof such passionate contributors and users
to advise Node.js leadership as itsgrowth continues validates the project's maturity and sets an open stage formore success to come."

About Joyent

Joyent is the high-performance infrastructure company. The Joyent Cloud isbuilt from the ground up to meet the requirements of today's demandingreal-time web and mobile applications. Joyent is the steward of Node.js, theopen source server-side JavaScript
project that provides developers andenterprises with the most powerful runtime for developing data-intensive,real-time apps. For more information visit http://www.joyent.com/.