State of the UnionSimon Stewart (@shs96c)

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A Year in Review

A Year in Numbers

● 2.0 released on July 7, 2011● 2.21 released April 11, 2012● 3 people have held the release bacon● 1 CI system● ~1500 downloads a day for Java● 1.7 million downloads for the Ruby gem● > 60 people with the commit bit● 1 amazing community

A Year in Browsers

● Firefox moves to a fast release schedule○ 3.6 to 11

● Opera release the first 3rd party selenium webdriver.

● Chrome adds the second.● Mobile becomes more important

○ Android, iOS○ Chrome on Android

● New committers○ barancev, llaskin, ajay,

luke● New parents

○ Dave○ Eran○ Francois○ Luke○ Patrick○ Simon

● And #selenium

A Year in People

A Year in Martians

And Did We Mention?

Looking Forward

Keeping the Lights On

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What About IDE?

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Challenges: Latency, User Friendliness, Flakiness

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The Rise and Challenge of Mobile

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A W3C Standard

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Source Control

Questions?

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