I thought this was interesting at first. An effort to push the JS environment towards standardization is a much needed initiative.
Then I saw the "initial projects" list.
"Appium, contributed by Sauce Labs, is an open source Node.js server..."
"Interledger.js, contributed by Ripple, enables instant payments and micropayments in any currency..."
"JerryScript, contributed by Samsung, is a lightweight, fully-featured JavaScript engine for Internet of Things..."
"Node-RED, contributed by IBM, is a flow-based programming environment built on Node.js..."
This made it very clear that the founding members of the "JS Foundation" are not interested in developing and promoting the best open source tools, those tools which are most deserving of broad adaption. To them, this is a way to promote their own tools. They aren't doing this for the good of the of JS ecosystem, they are doing it to push their own brands on developers.
Then I saw the "initial projects" list.
"Appium, contributed by Sauce Labs, is an open source Node.js server..."
"Interledger.js, contributed by Ripple, enables instant payments and micropayments in any currency..."
"JerryScript, contributed by Samsung, is a lightweight, fully-featured JavaScript engine for Internet of Things..."
"Node-RED, contributed by IBM, is a flow-based programming environment built on Node.js..."
This made it very clear that the founding members of the "JS Foundation" are not interested in developing and promoting the best open source tools, those tools which are most deserving of broad adaption. To them, this is a way to promote their own tools. They aren't doing this for the good of the of JS ecosystem, they are doing it to push their own brands on developers.