I’ve been asked by NTEN to write a whitepaper on APIs, following their Open API debate. I’ve been learning about some interesting examples of the use of APIs in nonprofit organizations, as well as learning what vendors (both proprietary and open source) are thinking about the issue. I’m looking forward to getting into the meat of the writing. It’s funny, I write a lot here on my blog, and I forget how much I enjoy technical writing (or semi-technical, in this case.)
In the process of reinvigorating the NOSI (Nonprofit Open Source Initiative) website, I took a look at the Primer on open source software I wrote eons ago in Web time. I think it needs some updating, but it’s actually still pretty relevant. That’s a good thing.
If you have any API wisdom, examples, strategies, what have you, that you’d like me to hear about, please drop me a line.
