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2022

May 04

OpenAPI Welcomes New Member Optic

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The OpenAPI Initiative, the consortium of forward-looking industry experts focused on evolving and implementing the OpenAPI Specifications (OAS), is welcoming Optic as a new member!

Optic’s open source tools help make the OpenAPI Specification and API-first practices adoptable. Keeping up-to-date OpenAPI descriptions is an important part of any API-first workflow and Optic’s tools are intended to make it easy for every developer to work with OpenAPI without having to write it manually. 

“Optic has been one of the most popular open source tools for maintaining accurate API docs. We always had our own spec under the hood, but some of our largest customers and most influential community members started a project to adopt OpenAPI,” said Aidan Cunniffe, CEO and Founder, Optic. “Coming home to OpenAPI has been really great, and we’re excited to take all the learnings and use them to make OpenAPI more adoptable for teams.”

Once teams are planning and tracking their API changes in OpenAPI, they are well on their way to working API-first. Optic’s API Review tool (in beta) can plug into Pull Requests and CI and shows Code Reviewers the API changes under consideration and their impact. Teams can set up CI to test API changes against their company’s API guidelines. This helps developers think about the impact of problematic changes before they get deployed to consumers. 

Optic Resources

OpenAPI Resources

To learn more about participate in the evolution of the OpenAPI Specification: https://www.openapis.org/participate/how-to-contribute

About the OpenAPI Initiative

The OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) was created by a consortium of forward-looking industry experts who recognize the immense value of standardizing on how APIs are described. As an open governance structure under the Linux Foundation, the OAI is focused on creating, evolving, and promoting a vendor neutral description format. The OpenAPI Specification was originally based on the Swagger Specification, donated by SmartBear Software. To get involved with the OpenAPI Initiative, please visit https://www.openapis.org

About Linux Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open-source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation projects like Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js and more are considered critical to the development of the world’s most important infrastructure. Its development methodology leverages established best practices and addresses the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

Apr 24

Announcing the API Specifications Conference (ASC) 2022 Early Bird Submission Deadline

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The fourth API Specifications Conference (ASC) will take place from September 19th through September 21st. We’re delighted to be back in-person this year after two years of having a virtual-only event! As part of the call for proposals we’re accepting and announcing five talks early. To have your talk considered, please have your submission completed by May 6th , 11:59 PM PDT.

The early bird submission will give you advance notice to prepare for your talk and your talk will be announced before the full schedule, giving you an opportunity to amplify your topic. Additionally, this year we are giving early birds the flexibility to choose which day they would like to speak.

Submit your talk today!

Early bird deadline: May 6th , 11:59 PM PDT

Regular deadline: May 27th , 11:59 PM PDT – New deadline – June 3rd, 11:59 PM PDT

We will notify any speakers who have an early bird submission accepted within two weeks after the deadline. Even if your early bird submission is not accepted in this round, it will still be reviewed along with other entries after the regular deadline.

If you need help or advice for your submissions, please contact speakers@openapis.org. If you are a first-time and/or underrepresented speaker, we especially want to help you submit a talk and are available to help you work through talk ideas or how to structure your proposal.

On behalf of the organizing committee,

Frank Kilcommins, Program Chair, ASC 2022

Apr 24

API Specifications Conference (ASC) 2022 – Call for Proposals

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After a fantastic inaugural event in 2019, successful virtual events in 2020 and 2021, the API Specifications Conference (ASC) is back in-person in 2022, from September 19th through September 21st. Mark your calendars!

ASC 2022 will include keynotes, sessions, panel talks and open discussion on specifications and standards behind the cutting-edge technologies that chart the future of APIs. And we want to hear your talk proposals!

We are looking for talks that range from beginner-level introductions to API specifications all the way through expert recommended practices and forward-looking sessions on API specifications and standards. The OpenAPI Specification, gRPC, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, RAML, API Blueprint, ODATA, JSON Schema, and other formats, all make for great topics at this event. We want to hear your talks on how you are using specifications and standards in practice. Topics can include but are not limited to design, testing, security, lifecycle, runtime, governance, and developer experience. In-depth discussions not only enable attendees to get familiar with these specifications and standards but use them in practice.

API practitioners and enthusiasts involved across the full spectrum of API lifecycle activities will attend ASC 2022. We’re looking for API designers, API developers, API testers, API technical writers, API product managers, API security, API Operations, enterprise architects, and many more personas to actively participate. We encourage and welcome you to make submissions.

Check out last year’s talks to get an idea of the different kinds of talks we have had: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcx_iGeB-Nxi54fIfinPnGfn6lPOLnLXQ

The Call for Proposals is open:

Submit your talk at: https://sessionize.com/api-specifications-conference-2022/

Submission deadline: May 27th , 11:59 PM PDT – New deadline – June 3rd, 11:59 PM PDT

If you need help or advice for your submissions, please contact speakers@openapis.org. If you are a first-time and/or underrepresented speaker, we especially want to help you submit a talk and are available to help you work through talk ideas or how to structure your proposal.

We’re looking forward to your proposals and participation that will make ASC 2022 a great event again this year!

On behalf of the organizing committee,

Frank Kilcommins, Program Chair, ASC 2022

Mar 28

Flotiq, API-First Content Management Platform, Joins OpenAPI Initiative

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The OpenAPI Initiative, the consortium of forward-looking industry experts focused on evolving and implementing the OpenAPI Specification (OAS), is announcing that Flotiq has joined as a new member.

Flotiq is a content management platform that is focused on APIs. It enables users to create custom content types. It generates supporting APIs, documentation, SDKs, and Postman collections. The Content Types created in Flotiq are automatically translated into a set of RESTful endpoints. Flotiq provides an OpenAPI schema that updates automatically after every change made to data models. That schema is then used for generating SDKs and API docs. Tapping into the OpenAPI ecosystem – Flotiq takes the developer experience to the next level and facilitates system intregration and publishing content through standard-compliant APIs.

“At Flotiq we strongly believe in open standards to enable development of well-engineered systems. We support the OpenAPI Specification extensively in our product, and by joining the OpenAPI Initiative we see a real opportunity to help shape the future of OpenAPI,” said Andrew Wytyczak-Partyka, CEO, Flotiq. “Now, more than ever, it’s time for us to engage with the community. We’re excited to be a member of the OpenAPI Initiative.”

Flotiq Resources

OpenAPI Resources

To learn more about participate in the evolution of the OpenAPI Specification: https://www.openapis.org/participate/how-to-contribute

About the OpenAPI Initiative

The OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) was created by a consortium of forward-looking industry experts who recognize the immense value of standardizing on how APIs are described. As an open governance structure under the Linux Foundation, the OAI is focused on creating, evolving, and promoting a vendor neutral description format. The OpenAPI Specification was originally based on the Swagger Specification, donated by SmartBear Software. To get involved with the OpenAPI Initiative, please visit https://www.openapis.org

About Linux Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open-source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation projects like Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js and more are considered critical to the development of the world’s most important infrastructure. Its development methodology leverages established best practices and addresses the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

Feb 10

Treblle, API Monitoring and Analytics, Is OpenAPI’s Newest Member

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The OpenAPI Initiative, the consortium of forward-looking industry experts focused on evolving and implementing the OpenAPI Specification (OAS), is announcing today that Treblle has joined as a new member. 

Treblle provides API monitoring and analytics solutions, and makes it “easy to understand what’s going on with your APIs and the apps that use them.” Treblle was established to solve problems the founders themselves, Vedran Cindrić and Darko Blaževic, had experienced. 

Based in Zagreb, Croatia, Treblle announced €1.2 million in via Nauta Capital in July 2021. 

“I wanted Treblle to join the OpenAPI specification because I strongly believe that we need to have some kind of standard, guide or north star when it comes to API docs,” said Vedran Cindrić, Founder, Treblle. “I’ve spent the past 10 years building products, platforms, apps and APIs. I saw some amazing APIs with superb documentation, but I also saw a lot of terrible APIs that were documented horribly. I think the OpenAPI specification is a great way of pushing documentation forward and, more importantly, pushing developers forward to not just write docs but build better APIs.”

Full Treblle API Monitoring and Analytics information available here: https://treblle.com/ 

More from Treblle

Free Treblle ebook for building great REST APIs: https://treblle.com/ebooks/the-10-rest-commandments 

Treblle for PHP, Python, Node, Laraval and more: https://github.com/Treblle 

Treblle on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DevelopingAPIs/ 

OpenAPI Resources

To learn more about participate in the evolution of the OpenAPI Specification: https://www.openapis.org/participate/how-to-contribute

About the OpenAPI Initiative

The OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) was created by a consortium of forward-looking industry experts who recognize the immense value of standardizing on how APIs are described. As an open governance structure under the Linux Foundation, the OAI is focused on creating, evolving and promoting a vendor neutral description format. The OpenAPI Specification was originally based on the Swagger Specification, donated by SmartBear Software. To get involved with the OpenAPI Initiative, please visit https://www.openapis.org

About Linux Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation projects like Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js and more are considered critical to the development of the world’s most important infrastructure. Its development methodology leverages established best practices and addresses the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.