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# 🎉 We have a lot of great news for you

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## 🎉 The AsyncAPI team grows!

Since last time, we had the pleasure to welcome two new members to the team:

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### **Eva Morcillo**

She’s joining the AsyncAPI team as the Marketing and Video Content manager.

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### **Łukasz Gornicki**

You’ll see him more often now as he’ll be taking care of the community and the events.

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## See you at QCon London

Make sure you don't miss the talk "**Designing Event-Driven Architectures Using the AsyncAPI Specification**" by **Fran Méndez** this year at QCon London.
 See you there!

 🌍Location: Mountbatten, 6th flr.
 ⏰ Duration: 2:55pm - 3:45pm
 🗓 Date: Tuesday March 3, 2020

[More info](https://qconlondon.com/london2020/presentation/future-api-0 "More info")

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## Would you like to learn more about AsyncAPI?

Learn about AsyncAPI by attending the workshops we are organizing in Barcelona, San Francisco, London, Madrid, Amsterdam, ...

 **Pre-registration open now!**

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## **Project Status Update**

We released [Generator](https://github.com/asyncapi/generator) 0.29.1. It includes critical bug fixes and features like

- Automated Docker image publishing.
- Unified template parameters definition.
- Added “baseHref” parameter on the HTML template.
- Now $$schema$$ generates a file for each schema defined under the components section.
- Bugfix: HTML template is now rendering array items properly.

Pull requests for our [AsyncAPI website](https://github.com/asyncapi/website) are now enriched with website preview generation. Merged changes are automatically published to [https://www.asyncapi.com/](https://www.asyncapi.com/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=newsletter-13-02-2020)

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## **AsyncAPI Special Interest Group (SIG) open meeting**

### Last Meeting

The last SIG meeting took place on the 4th of February.

 The topics we discussed were:

- [Channel deprecation feature request](https://github.com/asyncapi/asyncapi/issues/305): How to extend the specification on \`channel\` level, to have a way to mark it as deprecated.
- Possible improvements in the [Generator](https://github.com/asyncapi/generator):

  - [Generation of classes and types](https://github.com/asyncapi/generator/issues/216)
  - [Avoid code repetition in hooks and filters](https://github.com/asyncapi/generator/issues/212)
  - [Separate dependency management](https://github.com/asyncapi/generator/issues/214) of templates from the core
  - New **baseHref** parameter added to the **html** template, and [where these parameters should be listed](https://github.com/asyncapi/generator/issues/207)

Watch the recording on our [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIz9zGwDLbrYQcDKVXdOstQ)

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This is the recording for the AsyncAPI Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting #16.

[Watch Last SIG Meeting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kG_2nQIzJY "Watch Last SIG Meeting")

### Next Meeting

The next meeting is **scheduled for next Tuesday, 18th of February, 6PM CET**.

 The agenda for the meeting is built [here](https://github.com/asyncapi/asyncapi/issues/310). This is what we have on the agenda at the moment, but feel free to suggest your topics:

- Using [Conventional Commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/) spec and fully automate the publishing of new versions
- Improving the [CI/CD setup](https://github.com/asyncapi/generator/issues/220) to improve the maintenance of the tooling
- [Standardize](https://github.com/asyncapi/asyncapi/issues/312) basic contribution rules across all repositories and define basic repository settings.

The meeting is hosted on [Zoom](https://zoom.us/j/165106914).

 To not forget about future meetings and have always up to date invite in your calendar, add your email to [this](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/asyncapi-users) mailing list.

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## Blog posts from the community

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**AsyncAPI: 2020’s Industry Standard For Messaging APIs?**

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**AMPLIFY Streams adopts AsyncAPI**

 via [AXWAY](https://devblog.axway.com/integration/asyncapi/?utm_source=asyncapi-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=link-community-blog-posts&utm_campaign=newsletter-13-02-2020)

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[![](https://mcusercontent.com/3cdae6aed726d2e7490aec739/images/d1111701-6091-4d1a-acd3-28827dfe8fe6.jpg)](https://medium.com/tecxperiments/search?q=Modern%20Event-Driven%20Application%20Development%20using%20TIBCO%20and%20AsyncAPI)

**Modern Event-Driven Application Development using TIBCO and AsyncAPI**
 via [Akash Mahapatra](https://medium.com/tecxperiments/search?q=Modern%20Event-Driven%20Application%20Development%20using%20TIBCO%20and%20AsyncAPI)

[Read More](https://medium.com/tecxperiments/search?q=Modern%20Event-Driven%20Application%20Development%20using%20TIBCO%20and%20AsyncAPI "Read More")

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