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The JQuery Foundation is morphing into the JS Foundation to provide mentoring and technical governance for a multitude of JavaScript-based open source development projects.

The JS Foundation is a project of the Linux Foundation and has backing from organizations, including IBM, Samsung, and Sauce Labs. It will take over current jQuery Foundation projects and add a few more, said Kris Borchers, JS Foundation executive director.

"We've been supporting a lot more than jQuery for a long time, so the rebrand is to better reflect that," said Borchers, who had been executive director of jQuery Foundation. "And to also signal this effort to start creating a center of gravity for open source JavaScript."

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