Weekly Update - May 1st, 2015

Giovanny Gioyik (@Gioyik)

io.js 2.0 release candidate

This week we had one io.js nightly release v2.0, complete changelog will be found soon on GitHub.

New johnny-five site launched.
iojs.io domain was donated to the project and it will redirect to iojs.org iojs/io.js#1534
david-dm.org is now running on iojs
io.js v2.0 release candidate is out.
io.js ARM cluster is growing.
Onboarding another batch of committers iojs/io.js#1552
io.js TC meeting 4/29 on YouTube and SoundCloud.
io.js/Node.js code convergence plan draft.
initial repo for code convergence work for io.js/Node.js.
Node.js Foundation Governance/Convergence Call on YouTube.
Microsoft releases new Visual Studio Code based on Electron (AtomShell).
io.js support coming to Modulus
Yosuke Furukawa created iojs-new-features repo with upcoming changes in io.js v2.0.

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