Nestoria Blog

At Christmas it’s traditional for companies to send gifts to their big customers or people who have helped them over the last year. Nestoria is a small start up, and we do our best to stay frugal. As the holiday season rolled around last December we decided we would only get small gifts for the handful of people who had truly helped us over the last year.

In total we sent out five Christmas gifts, and one of those was to Chris Lightfoot.

Besides being a founder of Mythic Beast - the company that hosts this blog - Chris was one of the leading developers behind mysociety.org the volunteer group behind such innovative sites as TheyWorkForYou. Chris did an immense amount to promote civic involvement and data freedom in the UK.

Chris died several weeks ago and will be sorely missed.

There is an official post at Chris’s blog as well as a summary of just how important and influential his work was over on the mySociety blog.

Our warmest sympathies to his family and friends.