OpenAPI Initiative – The OpenAPI Initiative provides an open source, technical community, within which industry participants may easily contribute to building a vendor-neutral, portable and an o

# OpenAPI Initiative > The OpenAPI Initiative provides an open source, technical community, within which industry participants may easily contribute to building a vendor-neutral, portable and an open specification for providing technical metadata for REST APIs – the “OpenAPI Specification” (OAS). ## Posts - [OpenAPI Community Hero – Vincent Biret](https://www.openapis.org/blog/2026/03/05/openapi-community-hero-vincent-biret): Welcome to our next Community Hero! After his recent efforts in contributing to Overlay v1.1.0, we spoke to Vincent Biret. - [OpenAPI Initiative Newsletter – February 2026](https://www.openapis.org/blog/2026/02/10/openapi-initiative-newsletter-february-2026): Welcome to the OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) February 2026 newsletter! This is our first newsletter of 2026, and there is already - [OpenAPI Initiative Newsletter – December 2025](https://www.openapis.org/blog/2025/12/04/openapi-initiative-newsletter-december-2025): OpenAPI Initiative Newsletter – December 2025 Welcome to the OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) December 2025 newsletter! This is our last newsletter - [The OpenAPI Initiative Welcomes Apideck!](https://www.openapis.org/blog/2025/10/16/the-openapi-initiative-welcomes-apideck): The OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) is proud to welcome Apideck as a new member! Apideck is the first Unified API platform - [OpenAPI Initiative Newsletter – September 2025](https://www.openapis.org/blog/2025/10/01/openapi-initiative-newsletter-september-2025): Welcome to the OpenAPI Initiative (OAI) September 2025 newsletter! We’ve had a break over the vacation season in the northern ## Pages - [Calendar](https://www.openapis.org/get-involved/about): Welcome to the OpenAPI Initiative community calendar. This is a public listing of all technical and Special Interest Groups meetings, - [Membership benefits](https://www.openapis.org/membership-benefits): Be part of the community building the API standards you depend on Join 34 member organizations from startu