(ISF) Re: What I did this last couple of weeks to advance open standards for non-profits

-----original message-----
>>The CiviCRM open source community was involved when
NTEN pulled some
vendors together awhile back to talk about open standards,
you can
imagine how that went. I've been arguing to Joe Baker that
some of the
big IT customers need to get together an just say "we
want this." I
had a couple of those conversations with IT managers at
NTEN.>>



Dear David, and other esteemed colleagues:

This is a topic very close to my heart, since I am currently
trying to
figure out how to work with Fundware, which doesn't have an
open API
yet.  (They say it's in the pipeline, which is heartening!)

My question is:  is this a case for electronic advocacy,
i.e., an
email campaign?  This is something we know how to do, and
our buddies
at CitizenSpeak.Org have even made an open-source online
tool
available for just such projects.

What do you think?

Best regards from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
deborah_elizabeth_finnpost.harvard.edu
http://blog.de
borah.elizabeth.finn.com


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