Last year, we built a whole new mobile app for Open Food Facts. 2 months ago, we mailed you about the collaborative process to imagine its future. A fraction of you have brainstormed hard over the last few weeks to come up with 4 tracks, and associated features 🤩. It’s now time to assess if the ideas the …
This article is written by a contributor of Open Food Facts Jiří.
It’s been over a year since I started volunteering with the Open Food Facts project. That is, another activity in my spare time.
I would like to try to give a short introduction from my point of view. Although the main creators are doing it themselves on the website. I just translated the website interface into Czech to better understand and use it.
Hello everyone! We’re very excited to announce that Open Food Facts Images is now available on AWS Open Dataset. This opens up many possibilities for machine learning enthusiasts and researchers. Open Food Facts is a non-profit organization on a mission to give people the power to understand and change the impact of food on our …
by Sumit Kashyap (article written on Hashnode.dev) Are you curious about the Google Summer of Code program? Wondering what it’s like to be a contributor to an open-source organization? In this blog post, I’ll be sharing my personal GSoC’22 journey with OpenFoodFacts and answering some basic questions to help you better understand my experience. What …
Recently, Sarah E. Nájera Espinosa (Nutrition & Climate researcher and PhD Candidate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) contacted with Open Food Facts to use the database for her research. More precisely, Sarah and her team are conducting a survey on the availability of novel plant-based food products sold in the UK. …
Last February, the permanent team of Open Food Facts (Alex, Charles, Edouard, Gala, Manon, Pierre, Raphael and Stéphane (and Sarazine, our super intern !) has moved into a small office under the roofs of Paris. It’s not very big, but the view is pretty spectacular ! This is the first time in its 10 years …
Choosing a path together Last year, we built a new mobile app for Open Food Facts. We are very proud of it, and it’s already used by thousands of people. Now we would like this app to reach an even larger audience that will use it regularly: We would like to build together a vision …
Open Food Facts’ contributor John shares his experience of working on this collaborative project for the first time ! ☄️ I’ve been working with computers for over 40 years and I’ve always enjoyed getting stuck into the code, despite now being called a “software architect”. For a number of years I’ve been wanting to find …
On 12th of January, we launched a special operation on food packaging with a press conference and a citizen workshop (or a scan party as we like to call it) at the Climate Academy in Paris. This initiative is supported by the French Agency for Ecological Transition (ADEME). Read more about this day: Article Open …
🧂A pinch of context: “logos” ? Open Food Facts is filled with about 3 million products. Each product has a packaging which is made to attract as many people as possible. To this regard, productors highlight the qualities of their products with flashy and explicit symbols. These symbols are numerous and can give information on …
