Hi! I'm Kat, and I want to throw my hat in as one of the nominees for Individual Membership Director for the Node.js Foundation. Why? Because the Foundation needs to do more for its individual members. All of them.
JavaScript is one of the fastest-growing and most popular programming languages in the world, and Node is its primary platform for backend usage. npm's own userbase is estimated to be around 4 million, and downloads number at around 1.6 billion every week. Every single npm user is also a Node.js user in some capacity.
How many of those people have their interests represented in leadership? Which groups of people have we served best? Which groups do we never hear about? Who are the contributors, really? Do we want to change that? How could we?