# API Craft San Francisco

**Author:** kinlane  
**Canonical:** https://apievangelist.com/2012/08/18/api-craft-san-francisco/

On the heels of the successful [API Craft meetup in Portland during OSCON](http://apievangelist.com/2012/07/20/definition-of-api-craft/ "API Craft OSCON Portland, OR"), I was landing in San Francisco for a few days and at the request of SFO API folk, quickly organized a meetup at the Chieftain Pub, and thanks to [@abraham](https://twitter.com/abraham "@abraham") it was a great turnout.

10-15 people showing up seems to be about the normal for these events, and this API craft had a good showing of API Service Providers with 3Scale, Apigee, Mashery and Mashape representing. Then we had API folks from IFTTT, Pearson and SendGrid.

![](https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/apievangelist/api-craft/API-Craft-SFO-July-2012.png)

It was also great to have out fellow evangelist and unicorn herder, @abraham. The SFO API Craft meetup was another great gathering in a growing trend within the API community, and I plan on having them in every city that I can, I hope you do too!