New Blog Home

The Lamplight Blog can now be found on our homepage: www.lamplightdb.co.uk/blog

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Open data - a challenge

Sarah's just written about charity Open Data on the New Philanthropy Capital blog, encouraging charities to enter the (very quick and hopefully very easy Open Data Challenge).  We're asking for charities to enter their charity number and the number of people or organisations they worked with in 2011.  That's it.

We figure that this information is already in a zillion annual reports and funding applications all over the place, but never in one place.

The information entered will be publicly available, and we'll be hacking (and anyone else can too) it in due course to showcase the sorts of things that could be done once the data is there, in one place.

Getting out of the office

We're off to some impact-ey conferences soon.  Both look good, and if you go, do pop by and say hello!

The first is 'Measuring and Evaluating Outcomes in Practice', with a really good line up of speakers and sessions.  It's on 24th May in London and 29th May 2012.  Here's the whizzy discount code!

The second is a bit further away, in time and space: 13th June, in Exeter, organised by the South West Forum.  Again, a good looking line-up of speakers and workshops with a practical focus.  More info on the conference is http://www.southwestforum.org.uk/south-west-forum-conference-proving-your-impact-exeter.