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phile Villard.

This book series is being written in the open source, including editing and production. We owe Github a debt of gratitude for making that sort of thing possible for the community!

Thank you again to all the countless folks I didn’t name but who I nonetheless owe thanks. May this book series be “owned” by all of us and serve to contribute to increasing awareness and understanding of

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the JavaScript language, to the benefit of all current and future com‐

munity contributors.

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About the Author

Kyle Simpson is an Open Web Evangelist from Austin, TX. He’s pas‐

sionate about JavaScript, HTML5, real-time/peer-to-peer communi‐

cations, and web performance. Otherwise, he’s probably bored by it.

Kyle is an author, workshop trainer, tech speaker, and avid OSS com‐

munity member.

Colophon

The cover font for Scope and Closures is Interstate. The text font is Adobe Minion Pro; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is Dalton Maag’s Ubuntu Mono.