May has been a fantastic month for our community. We are delighted to announce that Gravitee has joined us as our new Platinum sponsor; thanks to Georgie Burrows for making this happen.
Furthermore, we are thrilled to welcome SmartBear as our Silver sponsor; thanks to Frank Kilcommins for making this happen.
We cannot thank our sponsors enough for their unwavering support. Your contributions are truly invaluable.
AsyncAPI Conf on Tour
We recently wrapped up our first conference of the year in Helsinki and are grateful to our speakers for coming to share their knowledge and expertise; slide content will be available on the conference website soon.
Next, we'll be heading to London for our next event. We are still accepting proposals for speakers, and we encourage anyone who would like to share their expertise or insights with the community to apply. The deadline for submissions is July 12th.
We also seek volunteers to help organize our upcoming online conference in October. If you are interested in being involved in the planning process, hosting, designing, or contributing to the conference page, please take a moment to fill out the Call for Volunteers form, and we will be in touch soon.
AsyncAPI Website Migration
Our AsyncAPI Website has successfully migrated to NextJS + TypeScript for easy maintenance. Thanks to Akshat Nema for leading this fantastic work and for contributions made by Ashmit Gupta, Ashish Padhy, Vishvamsinh Vaghela, Ansh Goyal, and Sambhav Gupta. Please review the new codebase on GitHub and check out the pull request with the website migration changes.
Spec x Tooling
We're excited to announce that a new case study from HDI Global SE is in progress and will soon be available on our website. Please keep an eye on Slack for the announcement when it's ready. For a quick sneak peek of the work-in-progress, check out the HDI Global SE case study preview.
AsyncAPI Bounty Program
The AsyncAPI Bounty Program is now accepting issues for Q3. If you maintain any AsyncAPI repository and have backlog issues you don't have time to address, please consider submitting them. We encourage the submission of design and documentation issues. For more details and to track the current progress for Q2, please check out the Bounty Board.
Community Discussion
Exploring ways of project funding
We are exploring ways to fund our project, such as monetizing YouTube. If you know of any other funding solutions we could incorporate into the initiative, please share your suggestions in the open discussion on Exploring Different Ways of Funding Project Work.
Slack Admin Rights for CoC Committee
We are updating and finalizing the new AsyncAPI Code of Conduct Committee documentation. To help ensure the safety of the Slack workspace, we are holding an open vote to grant admin rights to full-time CoCC members. For more details and to cast your vote, please look at the Proposal for Slack Admin Rights for CoC Main Committee discussion.
New Hire
We are pleased to welcome Oluwabamikemi Kayode as our first Community Marketing Specialist. With the collaboration of experts in the marketing working group, she'll help us spearhead our marketing efforts. Thanks to our Open Collective donations, Bami is the second person to join the AsyncAPI Initiative and work full-time.
Coming in June
- AsyncAPI Mentorship Program - Many have been wondering if we will have a third cohort of the AsyncAPI Mentorship Program and when it will start. Be sure to keep an eye out for announcements this month.
- AsyncAPI Community Updates Newsletter - The June Edition issue will arrive in your inbox this week. Ensure you subscribe to the AsyncAPI Newsletter; you don't want to miss out.