Sync All Your Data With #PRIDE

We’re defining an API and data structures to enable true interoperability among products for organizations with progressive values.

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Spoke / VAN / EveryAction / Action Network Integration

November 14, 2019

FROM: OSDI Department of Customer Relations TO: Progressive Interoperability Special Agents RE: Spoke / VAN / EveryAction / Action Network Integration UPDATE 11/2019: This worked …

People Import and Queersync

July 4, 2019

FROM: OSDI Department of Outreach TO: Progressive Interoperability Special Agents RE: RFI on People Import Helper and Spoke Implementation A proposal is on the table …

OSDI 101: Zero to Person Signup Helper

May 3, 2019

If you’d like to get a feel for the basics of the OSDI API, but aren’t a coder, this lesson is a quick learning example …

Meet the OpenSupporter Executive Officers

September 30, 2018

In advance of the upcoming national midterm elections, the Open Supporter Data Interface (OSDI) project announces the results of its recent Executive Committee elections, where …

Do Gooder Brings a Dozen Unique Action Tools and a Global Focus to the OSDI Ecosystem with a New OSDI Native API Implementation

August 3, 2018

When Do Gooder struck out to create an API for its suite of progressive action tools, the Sydney-based company chose to use the OSDI roadmap, …

Bullying, Diversity and Inclusion Parliamentary Update

November 15, 2017

With the passing of the election and Bullying Awareness Month, we’re increasing our focus on Diversity and Inclusion, welcoming new officers, and working to ensure that OSDI is an inclusive and accessible progressive technical workplace for the community.

The Open Supporter Data Interface (OSDI) effort seeks to define an API and data structures for interoperability among products in the progressive cause-based, campaign and non-profit marketplace.

The existence of a common API will reduce customer costs related to moving data between different systems, lower integration costs and enhance the ability of innovators to create products for the marketplace.

OSDI membership is made up of progressive vendors and organizations as well as invited non-partisan and mainstream industry vendors.

The API will define interfaces including but not limited to resources representing people, donations, questions, tags, and events. The group will determine the order in which to define resource models and which version of the API to include them in.

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Benefits of a Common API

Customers, Digital and Tech Directors, Technology Consultants

Less manual and error-prone data import/export
Staff and volunteer data entry time savings
Better ability to pick and choose technology products and use them together
Multi-vendor solutions mean less headaches

Technology Application Developers

Write platform integration code once rather than per platform means less dev hours spent
Data consistency across platforms reduces cost
Can spend more resources on new customer features rather than integration code

Platform Vendors

Ability to integrate means an easier sell to customers who already use another platform
Common API across vendors enables a larger app ecosystem for your platform