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Malte Ubl
An overview of what's been happening in AMP over the past year and what's coming up. Speaker: Malte Ubl All sessions from AMP Summit @ OpenJS 2020 →http://bit.ly/AMPOpenJS2020 Subscribe to AMP → https://bit.ly/AMPchannel1
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Interviewed: Malte Ubl
JOEY ROZIER: Welcome, everybody, to this year's version of the AMP Contributor Summit. As you all know, we've combined the annual Contributor Summit in with the OpenJS World stuff and OpenJS Collab Summit. We're going to go ahead and kick things off with the AMP Year in Review with me and Malte presenting. And then we'll get the day started. So Malte, you can take it over. MALTE UBI: Thank you, Joey. Yeah, I actually wanted Joey to do this talk. And then he said it's important for continuity that I chip in,
so it's both of us. Today, we're actually live. If you've seen the keynotes before, they were recorded, if you haven't noticed. To prove this, I can quickly switch the tab here. This is the current "Washington Post" home page. You can confirm this. So yeah, and this is the Collaborator Summit, so you'll see some duplicated content if you've seen my keynote a couple days ago.
But it's also you'll get unfiltered commentary and just overall more content. So there is some overlap, but it's not just a rerun. As always, I think this is the most important slide. We are incredibly grateful for all the contributions. We're now at 1,113 contributors to AMP, which is a 25% year over year increase, which is quite incredible. So huge thank you, virtual applause.
This was obviously announced couple of days ago, that we have now officially joined the OpenJS Foundation. At the last collaborator summit last fall, the big news was that we would join as their incubation phase. And basically, that incubation phase has completed now. Another big news from there was that Kasiana from Axios is joining the Technical Steering Committee.
The Technical Steering Committee is the committee that calls the shots in terms of technical decisions. As many you know, many of the actual decisions are delegated down to the people in the working groups. But so Kasiana is now joining that overall body that's being also consulted by the advisory committee. Not only that, but we actually have a Q&A with that committee later today at 1:30 PM Central.
I think that is 11:30 Pacific time. So that should be very interesting. OK, so much for the news part. I'm going to talk about a few things around AMP. And then Joey is going to take over. The first topic I wanted to talk about was Web Stories, which used to be called AMP Stories. And the team decided that Web Stories is a more appropriate
name, and thus renamed it. And I actually want to give a bit of an insight about the thinking around this and how I at least think about Web Stories in general. And to start this off, I want to show this screen, which was probably taken before some of y'all were born or around that time. The web used to be created differently than it is today.
The things that-- today, people use CMSes and all these platforms. But back in the day, there were these WYSIWYG editors, what you see is what you get, that basically work like any other word processor, layout software, a graphical way to create web pages. And there was some true downside, especially with FrontPage. If you recall this, this was not a very good piece of software. But there were better ones, like my favorite, Macromedia Dreamweaver.
