APIFutures is a distributed, creator-led effort to identify the most significant opportunity and/or the greatest challenge facing the API community in 2024.
By coordinating efforts across a range of diverse audiences spanning the API gamut, the APIFutures event will focus attention of many audiences, sparking subsequent discussion and awareness.
"We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims." - R. Buckminster Fuller
Writers, podcasters, YouTubers, and more participating in the APIFutures event should publish their contributions on JANUARY 11TH, 2024, 12:01 am GMT.
The APIFutures event is open to anyone interested in interacting with and improving upon practices across the wider API community.
There is no cost to participate in APIFutures beyond the effort to participate.
Absolutely! Comment on posts that you find interesting or retweet/reshare any posts that you found interesting.
Of course! Vendors often bring important insights into the space. Just remember that the spirit of this endeavor is not about promoting your specific solution, so focus on why the challenge/problem matters.
Participating in the APIFutures event offers an opportunity to gain wider exposure and connect with new people and audiences. Benefits include:
- Increased Visibility: By linking your work to other participants' contributions, your pieces can be discovered by their followers, potentially expanding your subscriber base or readership. Similarly, your current followers will get to explore exciting, related, and relevant work from other creators.
- Networking Opportunities: Engaging in APIFutures provides a chance to collaborate and build relationships with others in the API creator space. This can lead to future collaborations, guest appearances, or partnership opportunities.
- Enriched Content Diversity: By exploring diverse perspectives on API challenges and opportunities, you may can gain new insights, which can enrich your own content and understanding of the subject.
- Boosted Engagement: The combined efforts of all participants to promote the event using the '#APIFutures' hashtag can create a ripple effect, driving more engagement, comments, and shares for your content.
- Professional Growth: Being part of a collaborative initiative like APIFutures can enhance your reputation as a leader in the API community who is invested in its growth and evolution. Bottom line, preparing a contribution for APIFutures isn't only about sharing content; it's about growing together as a community, building mutually beneficial bridges, and creating a beacon for others to follow.
Creators are expected to present the most pressing API challenge or exciting opportunity they see for the coming year (2024) and beyond. The exact contents, length, publish destination, or presentation style is entirely up to the individual creators.
It would be helpful, though not required for participation, for creators promoting their published work across social media to use the hashtag, "#APIFutures". Most networks support tags, and discoverability is increased through the consistent application of a single label.
It is also desirable, though not required for participation, for each contribution to end with a call to action (below). This inclusion encourages the audience to check out other event contributions and create their own. Personalization of the call to action, including which other pieces are linked to, is entirely up to the creator's discretion.
Is there an option for participants to get feedback on their contribution before the final publishing date?
If folks are interested in having a collaborative session to gather feedback on their contribution in either early December or January, contact Matthew Reinbold via email at hello@matthewreinbold.com.
Creators publish their contributions wherever they want! If you have a YouTube presence, post to your channel like usual on January 11th, 2024. If you have an email newsletter, hopefully, a special 'APIFutures' focused issue slots nicely into your editorial calendar!
The point is that creators control how and where their work is presented.
Creators maintain all rights to their contributions created for the APIFutures event.
All creators are encouraged to add a link to a special APIFutures landing page listing the other participant's works. For YouTube, podcasts, or other non-textual media, creators are encouraged to leave the link to the APIFutures landing page in the description. A example of how a blogger might present that link is shown below:
Yes! Emma Kriskinans and her design team were kind enough to create several image assets that are available elsewhere in this repository. These assets include logos with a variety of different backgrounds, banners, and hexidecimal color codes.
When you have created your contribution, submit the proposed URL via this Google Form prior to January 9th. If there aren't any questions upon review, the piece title, author, and link will be added to the APIFutures landing page.
Which links you include in your contribution and how they are presented is entirely up to you! Share the references you are comfortable with and avoid those that may be problematic.
When promoting your contribution on social media, please use the hashtag '#APIFutures'.
There are no plans at the present time. If things go well and the community finds this useful, perhaps that will change.
If there is a question about any of the above or something that hasn't been asked, please get in touch with Matthew Reinbold via email at hello@matthewreinbold.com.