JSON Schema Newsletter – April 2024¶

Welcome to the first edition of the JSON Schema Newsletter, your monthly digest of the latest updates of the JSON Schema specification development, tooling, and Community highlights.

Why this newsletter?¶

With this monthly newsletter we'd like to make sure that vital updates reach a wider audience. This newsletter would serve as a comprehensive resource, consolidating key announcements, releases, Community spotlights, upcoming events, and informative articles. With this initiative, we're excited to bring JSON Schema enthusiasts closer together, sharing the latest buzz and fostering a Community that's more connected than ever.

📢 Announcements¶

• We are so excited about having received +70 applications for our Google Summer of Code projects.
• We have submitted our application for Google Season of Docs and we are so excited to see if we are lucky enough to be selected this year.
• We have shared with the Community an ambitious 1 year budget proposal. A great step to improve transparency and sustainability.
• This year we'll be running the first ever JSON Schema Conference as part of API Days Paris. Stay tuned for more updates!!
• We welcome LLC.org and VPS Server as new Bronze Sponsors. Thanks for your support!!

🎯 Specification Development¶

The team just published a proposal for Specification Development Life Cycle and we are so excited to continue the work incorporating the Community's feedback.

Check-out the this video to know more.

🗞 Articles and News¶

• What even is a JSON Number? by Brian Terlson. A great analysis covering different JSON specifications and implementations.
• Pet Store API - Just Say No! by Adam Biesack exploring different alternatives to the classic Pet Store API.
• Validate a JSON API with Playwright & JSON Schema by Mike Street with a walkthrough of the call to a JSON API and its validation against a predefined JSON Schema.

🗞 Tooling Ecosystem¶

• This month we discovered Better AJV Errors by the Atlassian Team. This tool improves the readability of the JSON Schema validation errors.

Looking for more JSON Schema tooling? Check out the full catalog of JSON Schema tooling here.

💬 Community Discussions¶

• JSON Schema at Scale in Organizations.
• Proposal for working groups usage.

🌍 Meetings and Events¶

Previous meetings:

• Open Community Working Meeting 2024-03-11
• Open Community Working Meeting 2024-03-18
• Open Community Working Meeting 2024-03-25

Upcoming meetings and events:

• Open Community Working Meetings on 2024-04-08, 2024-04-15, 2024-04-22 and 2024-04-29.
• JSON Schema Office Hours on 2024-05-07
• JSON Schema + AsyncAPI + Microcks meta meetup on 2024-04-17 in San Francisco (CA).

Please check out the JSON Schema calendar for a full list of upcoming events.

Finally¶

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