RIP Chris Lightfoot
Mar. 5th, 2007 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dennyhttp://www.mysociety.org/2007/03/05/rip-chris-lightfoot-1978-to-2007/
Chris was one of the core coders involved in MySociety, TheyWorkForYou, FaxYourMP, and many other incredibly cool website projects, culminating in the PM's petitions website. I would guess a number of the Cambridge people on my friends list probably knew him... I met him once, very briefly, he was a nice guy. I didn't realise what a phenomenal amount of stuff he'd done until I started reading the links from the linked post though.
Chris was one of the core coders involved in MySociety, TheyWorkForYou, FaxYourMP, and many other incredibly cool website projects, culminating in the PM's petitions website. I would guess a number of the Cambridge people on my friends list probably knew him... I met him once, very briefly, he was a nice guy. I didn't realise what a phenomenal amount of stuff he'd done until I started reading the links from the linked post though.
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Date: 2007-03-05 06:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-05 08:27 pm (UTC)The name rings a bell and i recognise over 2/3 of the friends he has linked. However i do not recongise the photo.. i think.
His works are astounding. Much impressed. Clearly a wise man.
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Date: 2007-03-05 11:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-03-06 12:27 am (UTC)Having helped with sending the emails for MySociety and for the traveltax petition specifically was somewhat awe-inspiring. It is certainly the most public project I've been involved in. It's a pity that Oggie never got to rewrite the bits of petemaild that he felt needed rewriting, but we couldn't use it in that mode anyway.
It all started off with him taking 2 weeks out of his PhD (never completed, of course!) to do his "political compass" survey.
It's still weird to think that he's gone.
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Date: 2007-03-06 02:26 pm (UTC)You may well not have run into him: I can't think of any clique of friends that includes the pair of you. He was a pretty amazing guy, in any case.