1. Scale the API Economy:
The Open API Definition
Leap of Faith
Mehdi Medjaoui
Co-founder
@medjawii
#openAPIdefinition

2. {“apis”: “the joy”}

3. Wikipedia :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_API

5. You said “open”?

6. Between what I think,
What I want to say,
What I believe to say,
What I actually say,
What you want to hear,
What you actually hear,
What you believe you understand,
What you want to understand,
What you actually understand,
It make 9 ways to not understand each other
B.Werber

7. Scale the API economy?
What is the future?

8. Theory of the firm applied to APIs

9. the level of capital to
innovate for new actors
the ROI of assets for
old actors
Economy of Functionality

10. at worldwideweb speed and scale !
BtoB sharing economy

11. In the API economy, an API is more
than an
Application Programming Interface

13. It’s a contract between a provider and consumer

14. Leap of faith for a
better society :
“Leave your natural
freedom for a
civilian freedom”

16. To Scale the API
landscape, we need to
make a leap of faith.
Today.

17. Leap of faith

18. 3 actual leaps of
faith that scaled
the industry

19. Since
1883

20. 1,000,000 patents in total, 2004

21. Released to ISO in the 60’

22. 95% of the shipping industry is containerized

23. CERN
April 30, 1993

24. The Indexed Web
contains at least 2.06
billion pages
(Wednesday, 26 March, 2014).
from http://www.worldwidewebsize.com/

25. Never was so much owed by
so many to so few.
W. Churchill

26. March 27th, 2014
The Open API definition
Leap of Faith

27. “The first draft of everything is shit”
E.Hemingway

28. “First drafts don’t have to be perfect,
they just have to be written”

29. 1) New resources to the network

30. 2) Transparency

31. 3) Accessibility

32. 4) Interoperability

33. 5) Attribution, re-use and derived works

34. 6) Neutrality

35. 7) ToS, Policy & changes

36. 8) Reliability

37. 9) Commons

38. The Graal?

39. Transform your users
into practitionners.

41. If we don’t try, who will?
https://github.com/openapimanifesto/firstDraft

42. Discuss about it today on
apiscene.com