The member list is amazingly small. The only well-known names and the only "platinum" names are IBM and Samsung, personally I never heard of any of the rest of the members before. I say "amazingly" for the amount of attention this gets (I first saw it on reddit and a number of other websites). I would expect to see at least Google and Microsoft and possibly Mozilla on there, and whoever represents node.js (the foundation itself, or someone).
The way this usually works AFAIK is that you try to get as much "buy-in" from as many important parties as possible before making the first big public announcement. It seems that in this case that didn't quite work out, and they instead hope to let the announcement itself be what starts the ball rolling to get more members on board.
The way this usually works AFAIK is that you try to get as much "buy-in" from as many important parties as possible before making the first big public announcement. It seems that in this case that didn't quite work out, and they instead hope to let the announcement itself be what starts the ball rolling to get more members on board.