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OpenAPI Initiative Newsletter – June 2024

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Welcome to the OpenAPI Initiative June 2024 Newsletter, our regular round-up of the latest stories from across the OpenAPI landscape.

Initiative News

We are excited to announce version 1.0.0 of the Arazzo Specification! Arazzo is the new official name for the Workflows Specification, which was decided on by the community after many rounds of debate. Arazzo is a specification that allows API providers to describe sequences of API calls, both within one API or across various APIs, with the means to link them together so implementers can orchestrate a series of steps based on known success and failure criteria. Arazzo is a significant step forward in describing the increasingly complex API landscape. You can learn more about Arazzo in our announcement.


The announcement of the Arazzo Specification means that the OpenAPI Initiative is moving to a multi-specification organization, with the OpenAPI Specification and the Arazzo Specification both falling under the OpenAPI Initiative umbrella. This will change how we maintain specifications consistently, especially as we add more specifications in the future. We will discuss this in a future post that describes our evolving landscape and governance approach in more detail.


In case you’re wondering: Arazzo means “Tapestry” in Italian, and was chosen because the specification is both about intricately weaving together something out of smaller things, and about telling a story that ends up being bigger than the sum of its parts.

Specification News

With planned patch releases for the 3.0 and 3.1 branches coming up, it’s “clarification season” in the OpenAPI Specification project. These changes address common questions and confusion, to make sure that the specification is as clear as possible. We’ve also made improvements to the tooling for publishing the specifications as HTML from the Markdown sources that we maintain in the repository, in preparation for releasing new versions. You can see all the changes and activity on the OpenAPI-Specification repository on GitHub.

Our biggest contributor for clarifications to the OpenAPI Specification and fixing an enormous number of ambiguities and open questions in the specification is Henry Andrews. A big thank you to Henry for all his effort in making our “small print” readable by anyone.

Our weekly Technical Developer Community meetings (0900 Pacific time on Thursdays, everyone welcome) are well-attended, full of thoughtful debate and discussion, and the engagement there – as well as all the hard work in between the meetings – continues to move us forward with purpose.

Community News

In this newsletter, we announce our Community Heroes feature, which provides a profile of an invaluable member of the OpenAPI community. In this first feature, we interviewed Henry Andrews, a subject matter expert in OpenAPI and JSON Schema and a prolific contributor to the community. You can read more on our blog.

We can also bring you news of the imminent release of our first OpenAPI Initiative training course, OpenAPI Fundamentals. This course provides foundational knowledge of OpenAPI, with the history of the language and practical examples of creating and using an OpenAPI description. This free course is available on The Linux Foundation Training and Certification platform from June 11th 2024.

Events Round-up

The summer is fast approaching in the Northern Hemisphere and consequently, the conference schedule tends to take a hiatus. We have, however, been busy running our OAI track at various conferences since our last newsletter. The OAI track aims to bring together community leaders and practitioners to provide a focused and detailed series of talks on subjects across the spectrum of OpenAPI Initiative specifications. The tracks are orchestrated by Erik Wilde, who describes them as:


“The OAI Track brings the API community together around OpenAPI and standardization in general. We typically have presentations about core specification topics, we talk about practices and tooling, and we also have contributions where presenters share how OpenAPI and standardization helped them on their API journey. Join us at any OAI Track to get the latest news and high-quality presentations about OpenAPI and other OAI activities!”


The OAI track was hosted at three apidays conferences in April and May, in Singapore, New York, and Helsinki, as well as at the JAX Conference in Mainz, Germany, in April. We heard from great speakers, including Frank Kilcommins who covered the finer points of Arazzo (including unveiling the name at apidays Helsinki). Darrel Miller looked at consuming APIs for “SDK Haters” in New York, while Sohaib Tariq discussed lessons learned from one million API definitions in Singapore.


We will be running the OAI track at conferences in the future, including the apidays Paris conference, where we plan to provide extensive training sessions on OpenAPI. We will launch an official “OAI certification program” in the second half of the year, at both the on-site training sessions at the apidays Paris conference and online courses. Stay tuned for details and please check out the OAI event calendar for a full list of upcoming events.


We also want to hear from you! Please get in touch on the Outreach channel on Slack with news of upcoming events, meet-ups, or anything you want to share with the OpenAPI community. We’d also love to hear about your experiences of using OpenAPI in designing and implementing your APIs, and share those experiences with the community on our blog.

Finally…

That’s it for this newsletter. If you have news you want to share with the OpenAPI community please get in touch by email or join the Outreach channel on Slack. We also welcome suggestions on how we can improve this newsletter or bring you information that can help make the most of how you use specifications published by the OpenAPI Initiative.

OAI Additional Leadership Job Posting

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The OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) is looking for three individuals to fill three separate year-long contracts to help lead the conversation around the leading API specification. We are looking for three self-starting individuals who are familiar with the OpenAPI Specification (OAS), and will help roll up their sleeves and help move a handful of projects forward.

The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) has emerged as the leading way to describe the surface area of your APIs in the last five years, and the need for help to support the community has grown dramatically. As part of this growth we’ve identified a few priority projects we are managing using Github Projects, and would love to get you involved!

Projects

Here is a list of the current projects OAI members and community have prioritized, which we have also tagged by the type of work involved, shared a brief description of what is involved, and provided a link to the Kanban board for each project.

  • OpenAPI Search Engine Optimization (Marketing) – Ongoing work to help improve the search engine optimization for the OAI and OAS, helping elevate the presence of the specification.
  • New Member Identification & Engagement (Marketing, Community, Business Development) – Work to identify potential new members to the OAI and reach out to them to help start a conversation and make them aware of the benefits of being a member.
  • Member Showcase & Engagement (Marketing, Community, Business Development) – Continually improving how we showcase and engage with the members of the OAI, and increase their participation within the OAS community.
  • Profile & Engage with API Providers (Community, Business Development) – Work to identify, profile, and build relationships with API providers who have implemented the OpenAPI specification, and publish profile to a central database.
  • Profile and Engage with Open Source Tooling (Marketing, Community, Business Development) – Establish an official directory of open source tooling that uses OAS, and actively work to establish and build relationships with each tooling provider to get them more involved in the community.
  • Curate and Publish API Articles, Podcasts, Videos (Marketing) – Work to discover, curate, and then showcase and syndicate the existing articles, podcasts, and videos that exist about OpenAPI.
  • Business Sector Showcase & Engagement (Business Development) – Work to profile business sectors that are putting OpenAPI to work, then engage, and build relationships with individuals or organizations, while helping stimulate OAI special interest groups in these areas.

All of these positions require leadership qualities to help define, prioritize, and execute on plans, and to engage with the OpenAPI community to increase participation, member value, and drive overall community energy.pods

Contract Details

These are the details of the work, with more details available upon request:

  • 3 Individual Part-Time Contractors
  • One Year Contract from September 15th 2021 through Sept 15th, 2022)
  • Open to Global & Remote Contract Works
  • Fixed Price Contracts ($2,500.00 Monthly / $30,000.00 Annual)
  • Monthly Report Demonstrating the Value of Work

Requirements

These are the basic requirements for being considered for the contract positions:

  • OpenAPI Awareness
  • Project Management Skills
  • Writing and Editing Skills
  • Enjoys Working with People
  • Embraces values of collaboration, inclusion, and diversity

Contract Pitch

When applying for one of the contracts, please pitch us on which project or projects your skills are a match for accomplishing, and demonstrate why you would be our choice to help not just make a project happen, but help us lead where the project goes next.

How to Apply

Please email your cover letter, resume, and any questions to jobs@openapis.org by August 15th, 2021 to be considered for the positions by the OAI hiring committee, with a start date of September 15th, 2021.

Get Involved

Even if you aren’t interested in submitting for any of these job postings we encourage you to get involved in the community and help out on any of these projects. In addition to participating as part of the weekly technical and marketing meetings, the OAI is looking for help across these projects, writing blog posts, and creation of educational materials, so please feel free to reach out via social channels or email to get involved.

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

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The third API Specifications Conference (ASC) will take place on September 28th and 29th. This year as part of the call for proposals we’re going to be accepting and announcing five talks early. In order to have your talk considered, you need to have your submission in by May 28th, 11:59pm 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 is announced. 

Submit your talk at: https://sessionize.com/api-specifications-conference-2021/

Early bird deadline: May 28th, 11:59pm PDT

Regular deadline: June 11, 11:59pm PDT

We will notify any speakers who have an early bird submission accepted within two weeks after the 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,

Taylor Barnett, Program Chair, ASC 2021

ASC 2021 Call For Proposals!

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After a successful virtual event last year, we are back again this fall. Mark your calendar for the return of the API Specifications Conference (ASC), this year as an all-digital event on September 28th and 29th, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm PDT. 

ASC 2021 will include keynotes, sessions, and open discussions 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 introductions to API specifications through best practices and forward-looking sessions on API specifications and standards, including OpenAPI Specification, gRPC, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, RAML, API Blueprint, oDATA, JSON Schema, and others. 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 talks and discussions will enable attendees to get familiar with these specifications and standards and how to use them to deliver better API experiences. 

Check out last year’s talks to get an idea of the different kinds of talks we have had in the past: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcx_iGeB-Nxil4S7-0Y1Y5r0oLahy3f0Y

The Call for Talks is open: 

* Submit your talk: https://sessionize.com/api-specifications-conference-2021/

* Submissions Deadline: June 11, 11:59pm 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 2021 a great event again this year!

On behalf of the organizing committee,

Taylor Barnett, Program Chair, ASC 2021

OpenAPI meets SLA

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This post is authored by Dr. Pedro J. Molina, Founder at Metadev & Member at ISA Group, University of Seville.

The Special Interest Group on SLAs inside OpenAPI is working to create an extension to define Service Level Agreements for API.

The latest work of the group was recently presented to the OpenAPI Technical Steering Committee for feedback and to ensure alignment with general policies.

The SLA4OAI working group needs your help to begin realizing these benefits in practice as an extension to the OpenAPI Specification. This post will explain what an SLA is, why it matters, and how new tooling can help solve important problems faced by all API providers today.

What is an SLA?

SLA is short for Service-Level Agreement, and it defines a set of metrics and constraints regarding service availability, quality of the service like minimal and maximal throughput, latency, quotas, rate-limits, etc.

Such constraints are applied to specific endpoints or operations (resources) inside an API.

These constraints can optionally be grouped in several plans and can have price.

Diagram showing SLA as the starting point with branches to a Plan, which decomposes to Pricing, Availability, Rate, and Quota, and a separate path to Metrics and Resource/Endpoint. The paths converge.
SLA relation to Metrics, Constraints, and Plans

The problem to solve

The API industry adopted OpenAPI to move from an informal to a formal definition of APIs that can be consumed by humans for documentation and machines for automation. 

In the same way, commercial APIs often have an SLA described in informal language published over HTML pages or PDF docs, hardly usable by machines.

Therefore, a need for a standard to help to describe SLAs is pretty clear.

Use Cases with APIs

Having a standard format to describe SLAs for APIs will enable the following Use Case scenarios, to cite a few:

  1. SLA Documentation: to describe the limits, rates, quotas and expected availability, and how they apply to different endpoints.
  2. Description of Plans and prices: explaining different usage plans and costs.
  3. Feature and Cost comparison based on (2): allowing the comparison of alternative APIs based on availability and quality features.
  4. SLA Testing tools: to check if a given limit is applied by the API as documented.
  5. SLA Measure: to check the metrics are inline with the SLA contract declared.
  6. SLA Enforcing: to implement quotas and limits as a middleware for an API.
  7. SLA compliance tracking (globally or per user): to measure the degree of real compliance of an API with the SLA respect to the theoretical one.
  8. Automatic calculation of combined SLA for composed services. Several API can be used together to create complex services. SLA properties for the composition can be derived from the expected SLA from the simple components.
  9. Easy setup of SLAs in API Middleware tools. Some Middleware tools provide features to implement SLA concepts like metrics,  limits, quotas, rate limits, etc. Having a standard & formal way to define it will simplify the initial configuration of such features.

Current Specification

After months of work the Special Interest Group (SIG) generated the consensus to create a minimal version 1.0 for people to start using and for providing feedback.

You can take a look at the complete SLA specification.

Early feedback, roadmap, and open issues

SLAs definitions have an entity per se to be described in an stand-alone document apart from your OpenAPI definitions. For example, APIs described with AsyncAPI may also benefit from SLA descriptions.

Some open design questions where we would appreciate community feedback include:

  1. What is the best way of representing SLA information? There is an open discussion about if we should extend the OpenAPI document directly or if we maintain the document apart and then use references to API operations. This can be achieved using different techniques like embedded extension, patch/merge mechanisms, overlays. All of them provide pros & cons. Therefore, we are evaluating trade-offs here.
  2. SLA definitions need to reference endpoints. REST endpoints contain a URL plus a HTTP Verb (or alternatively, can be referenced by an OperationId). AsyncAPI operations will differ for sure. A reference mechanism needs to be chosen to allow pointers to specific API operations at OpenAPI, AsyncAPI or others.
  3. Usually constraints and policies apply to a set of endpoints. Instead of enumerating all of the endpoints one by one, a mechanism based on globbing (*), or Regular expressions would be very useful to briefly describe all the endpoints affected by a given limit. OpenAPI tags were also suggested as a way to apply the limits.

Call for Implementers

Time for action has arrived!

Implementers can start building new exciting tools targeting today problems that can put in practice the usage of the extension to show its usefulness. Inside the SIG we will start also doing so very soon just to show a couple of examples of use. 

So if you are interested, please feel free to ask for details and reach out to the SIG about your plans to implement it. We plan to maintain a list of related tools using the SLA spec.

To know more

  1. Current SLA4OAI Spec
  2. Wiki and working drafts
  3. SLA-SIG Mail List
  4. SLA4AOI Presentation at TSC: slides & YouTube video
  5. Paper: The Role of Limitations and SLAs in the API Industry (ESEC/FSE ’19)

Acknowledge

Thanks to all the members taking part of the SLA SIG: Tim Burks (Google), Dave O’Neil (Apimetrics), Paul Cray (Apimetrics), Hyungjun Lim (Google), Khushan Adatiya (Google), Fran Mendez (AsyncAPI), Emmanuel Paraskakis (Independent), Phil Sturgeon (Stoplight), Nikhil Kolekar (Independent), Prithpal Bhogill (Google), Madhurranjan Mohaan (Google), Isaac Hepworth (ex-Google), Scott Ganyo (Google), Kin Lane (API Evangelist), Mike Ralphson (Independent), Jeffrey ErnstFriedman (OpenTravel Alliance), Antonio Ruiz-Cortes (ISA Group/University of Sevilla), Pedro J. Molina (Metadev & ISA Group) and Pablo Fernandez (ISA Group/University of Sevilla).

Thanks also to the TSC and OpenAPI Initiative members for encouraging us and providing the resources and feedback to make this possible.

OpenAPI 3.1 Confoo Pass Give-away

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Coming Soon to An API Near You – OpenAPI Specification (OAS) 3.1.0!

Do you remember the old days when seeing a trailer to an upcoming movie filled you with excitement and anticipation? Well, theaters may still be closed, but there’s no need to lose your excitement for a new release, especially one that’s three years in the making.  We suspect many of you have been sitting, fingers poised above keyboards, waiting anxiously for the release of OpenAPI 3.1.0.   

Well, the wait is over! News is starting to emerge on the new features and we’re curious which parts of OpenAPI 3.1.0 you are looking forward to the most.  Is it the JSON Schema compatibility, the new webhooks support, the improved reusability…?

How do I get a Free Pass to Confoo?

It’s simple! Send us your favorite features and briefly tell us how you plan to use it.  We will enter you in a drawing for a free pass to Confoo 2021 taking place, February 24-26th

To enter, tweet your suggestion with @openapispec #oas31confoo by Monday, February 22, 5 pm Eastern. The winner will be selected by a random number generator.

The conference is coming up quick (and so is the release of OpenAPI 3.1.0).  Send us your feedback. 

The OpenAPI Specification relies on developers just like you to keep it current and relevant.  Join us and make your mark on the future of API standards. New to OpenAPI? Sign up for our newsletter!

ASC 2020 Online – Don’t ASC, Still Learn

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The OpenAPI Initiative held its 2nd annual API Specifications Conference (ASC) online, September 9 – 10, 2020. A reimagined version of the famous APIStrat Conference, ASC continues to evolve and become a must-attend destination for folks interested in API specifications of all sorts. OpenAPI Specifications, RAML, Blueprint, gRPC, OData, JSON Schema, GraphQL, AsyncAPI, and other formats were all topics, enabling attendees to get familiar with these formats and discuss how to use them in practice.

ASC achieved a 91% attendance rate out of 373 unique registrations. We had 318 attendees, 42 speakers; 6 sponsors; and 7 staff. Feedback from attendees was overwhelmingly positive with 100% of survey respondents rating the overall experience as “Good”, “Great”, or “Excellent”. 88% said the content quality was “Great” or “Excellent.” Presentations included Github describing their journey towards adopting OpenAPI , OAuth2.1 and other updates in securing your API, and a unified API design methodology , among other engaging topics.

OpenAPI only charged $39 per person for the event and provided 18 community scholarships. We raised $2,500 for Code2040 and are proud to support their efforts.

While we missed seeing everyone in person, one benefit of an online event is that we could record all the sessions. We posted them on the OpenAPI Initiative Youtube channel. Also, many presenters uploaded their slide decks to Sched. We’ve made a brief tutorial to find sessions with slides easily. 

Stay tuned to learn more about ASC 2021 when information becomes available. Sign up for our Newsletter!

Reasons to Register! ASC 2020 Keynote Panel Deep with Real-World API Experience

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APIs are essential in many scenarios today but are still just interfaces at the end of the day. So what gives an API meaning? How does an API remain usable and useful? Learn how to look past the interface for a deeper perspective on API products at OpenAPI’s ASC 2020.

The API Specifications Conference (ASC) is a place for API practitioners to come together and discuss the evolution of API technology. The ASC includes cutting edge technology keynotes and sessions that chart the future of APIs with in-depth specification and standards discussions. The event is designed to be highly interactive, with plenty of discussion time throughout the sessions.

Keynote Panel: What’s the Specification for API Products?

Moderated by Erik Wilde (Axway), join keynote speakers Mike Amundsen (Amundsen.com, Inc.), Yina Arenas (Microsoft), Adam DuVander (EveryDeveloper), and Gail Frederick (Salesforce) on Thursday, Sept 10 at 9 AM PST as they discuss specification for API products. Learn how knowing why we are building these APIs should help us do a better job of identifying valuable specifications and delivering maximum value to customers.

Register Here

Keynote Moderator + Speakers

Erik Wilde supports companies on their digital journeys by helping them with their strategy and programs. Based on his background in computer science his focus is on technology. With his extensive experience when it comes to API initiatives within companies, however, he also focuses on business and organizational issues. Erik is a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide, publishes regularly in a variety of places, and is active in standardization efforts.

Adam DuVander is a developer communicator and cheerleader. He helps companies reach and engage with developers

through authentic content. Previously he worked for some of the best API and developer companies, including Zapier and SendGrid. Many still find his writing at ProgrammableWeb, where he served as the first editor of the influential journal. He’s a published author and international speaker, but his kids still aren’t impressed.

Yina Arenas leads engineering for Microsoft Graph, the gateway to data and intelligence in Microsoft 365 and one of the highest-profile engineering projects at Microsoft. During her career at Microsoft, she has been building the platform that enables developers to build applications that access data and relationships across Office and all Microsoft cloud services. She is from Bogota, Colombia and joined Microsoft in 2010 after graduating with a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Virginia. She lives in Seattle with her husband and 4 energetic sons and actively participates in activities that grow, retain and empower women in technology. Find her on Twitter: @yina_arenas.

An internationally known author and speaker, Mike Amundsen consults with organizations around the world on network architecture, Web development, and the intersection of technology & society. He works with companies large and small to help them capitalize on the opportunities provided by APIs, Microservices, and Digital Transformation.

Amundsen has authored numerous books and papers. He contributed to the O’Reilly book, “Continuous API Management” (2018). His “RESTful Web Clients”, was published by O’Reilly in February 2017 and he co-authored “Microservice Architecture” (June 2016). His latest book — “Design and Build Great APIs” — for Pragmatic Publishing is scheduled for release in July 2020.

Gail Fredrick is the SVP Engineering, Salesforce Developer Experience at Salesforce.

Roles prior to Salesforce include VP Mobile and Developer Ecosystem at eBay,  engineering director at Intel’s Open Source Technology Center, the heart of Linux at Intel. Nerd-vana. And before that, mobile software architect at Medio Systems in Seattle, WA. Medio was acquired by Nokia/HERE in July 2014. Her treatise on standards-based mobile web development is “Beginning Smartphone Web Development”, published by Apress in December 2009.

ASC Speakers Announced!

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The 2020 speakers have been announced, and their talks cover the spectrum of expert technologists, business professionals, open source contributors, and more! Learn from companies and organizations like GitHub, Google, Microsoft, MuleSoft, OpenTravel Alliance, Postman, SmartBear, TravelPort, Vonage, and others. Some highlights include:

Dealing with legacy systems? Go through “From 0 to OpenAPI: Describing a 10-year old API with OpenAPI @ GitHub” by Marc-André Giroux and Andrew Hoglund, GitHub

Want to learn about timing pandemic-helping techniques? Take in “All the Interoperability, But None of the Contact” by Jeff ErnstFriedman, OpenTravel Alliance

Sneakily fascinated for the inside scoop of how Postman dogfoods their own tech? Attend “How Postman uses Postman to Build APIs” by Joyce Lin, Postman 

Curious about how to implement a unified API design process that goes beyond adopting a single API style or specification? You definitely want to check out “GraphQL, gRPC and REST, Oh My!: A Method for Unified API Design”  by Mike Amundsen, amundsen.com Inc.

Hungering to inject delight into the developer experience? Perhaps “Create Delightful SDKs from OpenAPI” by Lorna Mitchell, Vonage, is your cup of tea.

Increase your skills, meet your peers, get a look into the latest research and latest real-world case studies. ASC 2020 is a virtual conference this year, being held Sept 9-10. 

Check out the full schedule now! https://asc2020.sched.com/

Register today! https://events.linuxfoundation.org/openapi-asc/register/

ASC 2020 - API Specifications Conference - Virtual Experience, September 9 - 10. Hosted by the OpenAPI Initiative

The API Specifications Conference (ASC 2020) – Hold the dates: Sept 9th-10th

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Mark your calendar for the return of this year’s API Specifications Conference (ASC)! This year we will be holding an all-digital event on September 9th and 10th, 9 am – 2 pm Pacific time. Join from the comfort of your own home—no hotels, no airfare, no line for the restroom.  

ASC 2020 includes keynotes, sessions, and breakouts on specifications and standards behind the cutting edge technologies that chart the future of APIs. Look forward to in-depth, forward looking and tutorial sessions on API specifications and standards including OpenAPI Specification, gRPC, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, RAML, API Blueprint, OData, JSON Schema, and others. In-depth discussions will not only enable attendees to get familiar with these specifications and standards, but actually use them in practice.

Registration and the Call for Talks are both open as of now: 

* Register at: http://www.cvent.com/d/pnqcfc/4W?ct=50221cf5-5496-4c34-9ec0-3b52b1bf1204

* Submit your talk at: https://sessionize.com/api-specifications-conference-2020/

* Submissions deadline: July 2

* ASC 2020 conference: Sept 9th-10th

Please mark these dates in your calendar and sharpen your pencils to submit a talk proposal. We’re looking forward to your proposals and participation that will make ASC 2020 a great event again this year.  If your company is interested in sponsoring the event please reach out to ascsponsorships@linuxfoundation.org for our sponsorship prospectus.