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 …
And how you can too ! Whether you are a long-time contributor of Open Food Facts and would like to go further with contributing in the taxonomy, or you are a to-be developer willing to contribute on your first open-source project, this article is made for you. 1-Introduction Open Food Facts is the Wikipedia of …
2 weeks ago we participated in the Capitole du Libre, an event around free software, in the French city of Toulouse. We came back enthusiastic about this experience, and in addition to telling you about it, we will try to encourage you to do the same! 🤓 Our experience at the Capitole du Libre Testimony …
Open Food Facts is a non-profit organisation and as such, we very much rely on donations to support our activity. Since the start of November, we have started a key stage in our life as an association, our annual donation campaign. When you give, here are 4 things you’ll be supporting: (1) The virtuous circle of …
