This is the Github repo for Landscape. Landscape (http://landscape.ajah.ca/) is a pilot project for an open tool that helps people find out who is funding who, for what kind of projects, and when this funding is happening. This includes funding from governments, foundations, and corporations.
I work for a nonprofit called Powered by Data (http://poweredbydata.org) and we are particularly interested in open funding data for the social sector. Landscape is meant to be a user-friendly tool for low capacity users to easily search what kind of funding is happening in their spaces of interest (geographical, issue related, ect). The tool intends to make the work of nonprofits and their funders more efficient. Landscape will help identify overlap and points of collaboration, gaps in services, as well as previously undiscovered funders or fundees. Academics may also be interested in this tool for the purposes of research. Because Landscape also publishes open data, it then creates the conditions to enable social innovation in the grantmaking sector.
I am looking to gain valuable feedback from users in order to improve our pilot. I am also seeking additional contributors to help populate Landscape by data scraping grantmaking data from funders sites (governmental, foundations, or corporate).
If you are a nonprofit, funder, or academic, I would like your UX feedback. Including, but not limited to:
If you are a techie and know how to scrape data from websites, I need to learn how to do this. Extra bonus points if you are able to teach me to do it myself. I have posted some guidance on what kind of websites to scrape and what fields to scrape. If you have more questions, you can contact me there.
I would also take some assistance from UX research and UX design folks who want to help me improve how people use the tool.
And possibly some design folks who want to make the tool pretty.
We are using the Mozilla Contributers' Guidelines as our code of conduct.
And here is my roadmap.
I'm new to github and learning the ropes. Will be adding more to this as I go. Any notes for improvement or things you want to know about the project, do not hesitate to contact me.
If you want to contribute, you can look at the CONTRIBUTING file or comment here. Otherwise, you can reach me directly on twitter.