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March 9th, 2020
== March 9th, 2020 ==
* '''World Events''' - As the global community prepares and reacts to the COVID-19 outbreak, a number of conferences have been cancelled and companies have expanded remote work options. As a result, there has been a significant increase in inbound requests for Hubs virtual conferencing.
* '''ET Speaker Series''' - We were happy to welcome Nicole Ellison from the University of Michigan for [https://mzl.la/et-speaker-series-2020-01-16 her talk ] entitled, “Social Media and Well-Being: Moving Beyond “Active” versus “Passive” Activities”. She discussed her work around social media and wellbeing, particularly looking at the role of the non-click as a deliberate way to avoid both corporate and social surveillance. This work was inspired by scholarship on well-being outcomes that often characterizes browsing (but not clicking) activities as passive use, contrasting it with more desirable active use. The talk is archived for NDAd Mozillians on Airmo.* '''Collaborative WebAssembly''' - Mozilla, along with Intel, RedHat, and Fastly, have been working together as the Bytecode Alliance since late last year to create a complete, capable runtime-platform for WebAssembly outside the browser. This past week Fastly [https://www.fastly.com/blog/how-lucet-wasmtime-make-stronger-compiler-together published a blog post ] highlighting that they plan to contribute their Lucet, WebAssembly runtime to that effort. Lucet was initially developed as a closed source runtime designed for edge computing, and incorporates a number of noteworthy performance and scalability enhancements. Fastly is already working with us to bring those advantages to our open source Wasmtime WebAssembly runtime, which will serve as the core of the Bytecode Alliance platform. When this project is complete, Lucet will be able to leverage all of the support Wasmtime has for platforms like Mac OS and Windows, and Wasmtime will be able to leverage Lucet’s ahead-of-time compilation model. It’s a big win for each project.
== March 2nd, 2020 ==
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