Introduction to OpenAPI and Python code-generation for web API development

# About the presentation

OpenAPI has been gaining popularity in companies from startups to IT conglomerates. Previously known as Swagger, OpenAPI provides developers a way to write standardized, programming language-agnostic interface descriptions for HTTP APIs.

In a world where APIs are more prevalent than ever, why are we obscuring their interfaces behind backend servers? By utilizing OpenAPI in your development you get for free: code-generated client libraries and API server stubs, API documentation, and code-generated test suites just to name a few benefits!

So come on down to a presentation where we will go over:

1. Getting started with OpenAPI in any size project
2. Exploring use-cases for integrating OpenAPI into your development cycle
3. A live demonstration using OpenAPI-Generator for building client libraries and API servers
4. An overview of the OpenAPI community and other useful tools

The presentation will start at 7:00 PM, so feel free to show up early to meet the others. If there is interest afterwards, we can extend the evening at a local bar (in Downtown Tampa?).

Attendees are welcome to bring personal computers to follow along with the live demo.

Please be courteous and make sure to RSVP as we will have limited food and seating.

# About the food

An array of finger sandwiches made with Boar's Head deli meats and cheeses

• Top Round Roast Beef with Swiss cheese served on fresh pumpernickel bread with Grey Poupon mustard packets
• Oven Roasted Sliced Chicken Breast served on fresh hearty wheat bread with Kraft Mayo packets
• Classic Pimento Cheese Spread served on traditional white bread

Italian Pasta Salad (ingredients: tricolor pasta with fresh sliced Genoa Salami, Virginia Baked Ham, grated Mozzarella, and cherries tomatoes tossed with Balsamic Vinaigrette)

Old fashioned Banana Nilla pudding for your sweet tooth!

Early bird gets the food!

# About the location

• The venue is a historical building, as such, it is not wheelchair accessible.
• Please safely use GPS navigation to get to the event, there are entrances to the parking lot on W Kathleen St and W Aileen St.
• There will be plenty of parking, just avoid named spots.
• The entrance to the event is on the West side of the building, you will ascend the first of two flights of stairs to find glass doors into the building, and then directly to your left you will ascend the second flight of stairs into the event space. You will see a long hallway, head towards the sign and you will find the seating area!
• Feel free to mingle, eat some food, and stake out a spot to sit.