chore(blog): article about helsinki and future events (asyncapi#3212)

Co-authored-by: Rohit <108233235+TRohit20@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: V Thulisile Sibanda <66913810+thulieblack@users.noreply.github.com>

markdown/blog/2022-summary.md

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     link: https://twitter.com/derberq
     byline: AsyncAPI Maintainer and Dev Comm Keeper
 excerpt: 'tl;dr We do not see any negative trends indicating that the interest in the project got stale and that the community is not growing anymore.'
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 It is a good practice to sometimes stop and turn back. Sometimes you need to see what you left behind, what successes made you go that far, and what things you missed and never had time to enjoy or explore. The more often you do it, the better your decisions may be in the future. It is essential to do it at least once a year in open source.

markdown/blog/2023-mentorship-summary.md

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     photo: /img/avatars/ace.webp
     link: https://twitter.com/_acebuild
     byline: AsyncAPI Preacher
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markdown/blog/2023-summary.md

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     link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/v-thulisile-sibanda/
     byline: AsyncAPI Community Manager
 excerpt: '2023 Year in Review'
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 It's almost unbelievable that we are in 2024. And if you are reading this, Happy New Year to you and your loved ones. Continuing the tradition, we look at how the community has grown over the last 365 days and look forward to our next phase.

markdown/blog/2024-Q1-docs-report.md

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     link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandra-quetzalli/
     byline: During Q1 2024, AsyncAPI docs had a total of 26,923 sessions and 8,128 unique users. 
 excerpt: During Q1 2024, AsyncAPI docs had a total of 26,923 sessions and 8,128 unique users.
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 # AsyncAPI Documentation Report - Q1 2024

markdown/blog/a_straight_guide_to_apis_and_architecture_concepts.md

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     photo: /img/avatars/barbano.webp
     link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbano-gonzalez-moreno
 excerpt: Basic concepts about APIs and architectures for beginners and non-developers.
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 It has not been such a long journey into the technology realm for me. Then I started to work at AsyncAPI, and suddenly, I needed to understand a complex world. New terms, code, and ways of seeing things were waiting for me. Coming from other fields of knowledge, the challenge was huge. How to begin? How to have a clue?

markdown/blog/asyncapi-ambassador-program.md

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     photo: /img/avatars/barbano.webp
     link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbano-gonzalez-moreno
 excerpt: Information about AsyncAPI Ambassador Program.
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 AsyncAPI and its community have grown exponentially during the last few months. As a feedback exercise, both the project and the community are getting stronger with one another. The community is the driving force that leads the initiative and the bigger it gets, the greater the consistency and potential it has. It’s amazing to see a vast number of people who invest their time in disseminating and promoting the initiative through talks, articles, workshops, and program direction... 

markdown/blog/asyncapi-say-hi-to-triggermesh.md

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     link: https://twitter.com/j_michaux
     byline: Product at TriggerMesh
 excerpt: TriggerMesh makes it easy to reliably pipe events from any source to any destination. Let's use it to read from AsyncAPI channels, and see how to autogenerate the TriggerMesh config.
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 This tutorial demonstrates how to use AsyncAPI with TriggerMesh. It shows how the two play nicely together because TriggerMesh can easily ingest, transform, filter, and route events from channels defined in an AsyncAPI definition. This is one of many possible ways to use the two technologies together. This post assumes you have basic knowledge of AsyncAPI already, but are potentially new to TriggerMesh.

markdown/blog/asyncapi-website-migration.md

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     link: https://ashmit.dev/
     byline: Modelina Website Maintainer
 excerpt: 'Migration journey of the AsyncAPI Website, features introduced, and future plans.'
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 We're thrilled to announce the successful migration of the AsyncAPI website from JavaScript and Next.js v12 to TypeScript and Next.js v14! This exciting upgrade unlocks a new chapter for the website, paving the way for improved scalability, streamlined feature implementation, and the powerful capabilities of Next.js. As a bonus, this migration also enabled a well-documented codebase and streamlined our testing process by reducing the reliance on Cypress tests. In this blog post, we'll delve into the exciting journey behind the migration and share what's new on the website. I'll share insights into our team's efforts, the research and planning involved, the challenges we tackled, the valuable lessons learned, and what exciting plans lie ahead for the AsyncAPI website.

markdown/blog/beyond-boundaries.md

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   - name: Azeez Elegbede
     photo: /img/avatars/ace.webp
     link: https://twitter.com/_acebuild
-    byline: AsyncAPI Preacher
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+    byline: AsyncAPI Preacher 
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 In 2022 we piloted our innovative mentorship program that focuses on open-source software(OSS). We envisioned a platform where aspiring developers could learn, grow, and contribute to exciting projects while receiving guidance from experienced mentors.

markdown/blog/conference-2022.md

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 tags:
   - Conference
 cover: /img/posts/conference-2022.webp
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 authors:
   - name: Azeez Elegbede
     photo: /img/avatars/ace.webp

markdown/blog/conference-2023.md

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     link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/v-thulisile-sibanda/
     byline: AsyncAPI Community Manager
 excerpt: In 2023, we hosted our very first in-person conference edition. Find out how it all went down!
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 For three consecutive years, we have hosted online conferences, and in 2023, we decided to take it up a notch and move to in-person events.

markdown/blog/gravitee-annoucement.md

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     link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/atinuke-oluwabamikemi-kayode-5b838b1b7/
     byline: AsyncAPI Community Marketing Specialist
 excerpt: 'Gravitee Sponsorship Announcement'
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 ## Gravitee Sponsorship Announcement

markdown/blog/hacktoberfest-2022.md

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 tags:
   - Hacktoberfest
 cover: /img/posts/asyncapiXhacktoberfest.webp
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 authors:
   - name: Azeez Elegbede
     photo: /img/avatars/ace.webp

markdown/blog/helsinki-and-community.md

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+---
+title: "AsyncAPI Conference Helsinki and the API Specs and Standards Concept"
+date: 2024-09-13T06:00:00+01:00
+type: Communication
+tags:
+  - Conference
+cover: /img/posts/helsinki-and-community/booth-top.webp
+authors:
+  - name: Lukasz Gornicki
+    photo: /img/avatars/lpgornicki.webp
+    link: https://twitter.com/derberq
+    byline: AsyncAPI Executive Director
+excerpt: 'Conferences are great. They bring communities together and give people a platform to share their experiences. But is that enough?'
+featured: true
+---
+
+## How It All Started
+
+After three years of hosting online conferences (2020-2022), the AsyncAPI community felt it was time for something different— an in-person event. We wanted to meet people face-to-face, to confirm that behind the virtual interactions were real humans, the ones you could have meaningful conversations with, not bots!
+
+In 2023, we organized multiple events under the brand `AsyncAPI Conf on Tour`. One of them took place at [APIDays Paris](https://www.apidays.global/paris2023/), made possible by the amazing folks behind [APIDays](https://www.apidays.global/), who share our belief in the future of strong API specifications and standards.
+
+It was a fantastic opportunity, but we had one major concern—how do we find our community members in an event with thousands of attendees? How do we have meaningful conversations? And how do we engage with people who don’t know about AsyncAPI yet? 
+As you probably know, conference talks end, and people scatter. It’s easy to lose them in the crowd.
+
+One of the best places to meet people at conferences is at the sponsor booths. But as an open-source, community-driven project, we don’t have the budget for that kind of setup.
+
+Once again, [APIDays](https://www.apidays.global/) came to the rescue and offered us a booth.
+
+We decided to take it one step further—not just a booth for AsyncAPI, but a shared space for other open-source communities. At Paris 2023, we organized the first `API Specs & Standards` booth, bringing together AsyncAPI, OpenAPI, and JSON Schema experts. We created a vendor-neutral, safe space for knowledge exchange, where experts from different companies shared their expertise without pushing for their products.
+
+## AsyncAPI Conf on Tour at APIDays Helsinki 2024
+
+Our next stop was [APIDays Helsinki 2024](https://www.apidays.global/helsinki_and_north/).
+
+Hugo kicked things off with a great introduction to the AsyncAPI spec and later wrapped up the track with an excellent session on testing event-driven architectures.
+
+<Figure
+  src="/img/posts/helsinki-and-community/hugo.webp"
+  caption="Hugo presenting AsyncAPI basics."
+  className="text-center"
+/>
+
+Jonas followed with a detailed overview of the AsyncAPI tooling ecosystem, showcasing the various tools built around the specification to support developers working with AsyncAPI documents.
+
+<Figure
+  src="/img/posts/helsinki-and-community/jonas.webp"
+  caption="Jonas presenting the AsyncAPI tooling ecosystem."
+  className="text-center"
+/>
+
+I then presented an overview of AsyncAPI use cases, demonstrating how different companies use AsyncAPI in production, all based on real data we’ve gathered over the years. You can explore all of this in our [AsyncAPI case studies](/casestudies).
+
+<Figure
+  src="/img/posts/helsinki-and-community/lukasz.webp"
+  caption="Lukasz presenting how AsyncAPI is used in production."
+  className="text-center"
+/>
+
+The talks were engaging, and the questions that followed were great. Slides from the talks are [available for download](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nY7dZF8WFXZ3r2rCWJDDoT2C_GMfQJMV). But the best, most technical, and insightful conversations happened at the `API Specs and Standards` booth. We teamed up with friends from the OpenAPI Initiative and had deep, meaningful discussions.
+
+<Figure
+  src="/img/posts/helsinki-and-community/booth-front.webp"
+  caption="OpenAPI and AsyncAPI experts side by side. From left: Lukasz, Erik, Frank, Hugo, and Jonas."
+  className="text-center"
+/>
+
+## September 18-19 in London
+
+I won’t be attending the London event this year, but plenty of other folks will, especially at the `API Specs and Standards` booth. I hope you all have as much fun there as we did in Helsinki!
+
+<Figure
+  src="/img/posts/helsinki-and-community/run.webp"
+  caption="OpenAPI and AsyncAPI experts getting to know each other during a Helsinki city run."
+  className="text-center"
+/>
+
+If you haven’t grabbed your ticket yet, AsyncAPI community members can get free passes. Just [check out the agenda and reserve your spot](https://conference.asyncapi.com/venue/London).
+
+## December in Paris and the future of the Booth
+
+Looking ahead to December, we’ll have some free passes for the Paris event too. But honestly, the best experience is joining as a speaker. Not only do you get a free pass, but you also get to attend the speaker’s party the night before the event. Most importantly, it’s a unique opportunity to share your story with the wider [AsyncAPI](https://conference.asyncapi.com/venue/Paris) community. CfP is still open.
+
+Of course, we’ll have a booth again. This time, it won’t just be AsyncAPI and OpenAPI folks—our friends from JSON Schema will join too.
+
+Since it’s the fourth time we’ll be hosting this booth, I have a feeling it’s time to take things up a notch. We need to be more organized, include more community members, and maybe even secure some dedicated funding. A rebranding could be in order, too—perhaps renaming the booth to `Open API Standards`. We could also broaden the scope to include experts from the open-source tooling ecosystem that builds on top of these standards and operates under open governance.
+
+Enjoy!

markdown/blog/new-asyncapi-tools-page.md

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     link: https://twitter.com/AksNema
     byline: AsyncAPI Maintainer and Dev Akshat Nema
 excerpt: "Announcing our newly released AsyncAPI tools dashboard!"
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 We already know that the present list of tools used inside AsyncAPI is presented on [AsyncAPI Tools Overview](/docs/tools) and it is manually maintained inside the GitHub repository. All the tools are sorted according to the different categories in which they are used and maintained by the contributors. But we don't have a way to filter the tools according to our interest 🤔, like languages, technologies used in it, open-source tools, etc. Also, what if you want to add your tool to the list, what you will do 🤔? Do you have to create a PR?

markdown/blog/release-notes-2.6.0.md

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     link: https://twitter.com/acethecreator
     byline: Software Engineer & Open-Source Advocate 
 excerpt: "The release of AsyncAPI 2.6 added an exciting feature which is the support for Apache Pulsar"
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 The new version of the AsyncAPI specification - 2.6.0 - is now available.

markdown/blog/socketio-automatic-docs.md

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 title: Flask-SocketIO Automated Documentation and Validation
 date: 2023-03-02T06:00:00+01:00
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 type: Engineering
 tags: ['Python','SocketIO','Flask-SocketIO']
 cover: /img/posts/socketio-automatic-docs/cover.webp

markdown/blog/the-new-era-approaches.md

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     photo: /img/avatars/jonaslagoni.webp
     link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonaslagoni/
 excerpt: "An update around AsyncAPI 3.0, where we are, what is remaining, release schedule, and a first look at 3.0"
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 Back in [March 2022](https://www.asyncapi.com/blog/async-api-spec-3.0-release), you heard the first official words around AsyncAPI 3.0. Since then, a lot of people have been working diligently across many expertise to bring it to life. And with its current state, it's finally time to give an update on the progress.