Events team

From Open Food Facts wiki

Aim 🎯

Open Food Facts is built by everyone for everyone. The mission of this team is to let more people know that this open & free tool exists to grow our impact !

We need people willing to promote Open Food Facts by organising events and/or representing Open Food Facts:

  • at fairs (food, tech, open data, health…),
  • conferences,
  • schools & universities,
  • companies,
  • non-profit organisation… and anywhere you feel that Open Food Facts would be relevant !

First steps:

Get in touch with the team referent (see below) and let's think of how you can contribute !

Also, you can have a look at the Tools available to help you in your first contributions.

Needs / Missions

  • Representing OFF at various events (fairs, conferences…)
  • Pitching to public agencies, researchers, start-ups, schools, tech companies...
  • Activating your professional/personal networks
  • Organising local meet-ups (online/offline, by location/language(s)): workshops, brainstorming, scanning challenges, citizen actions, etc.

Tools 🛠

Events/ Presentation Kit

🇬🇧 Presentation Kit

🇫🇷 Kit de présentation

(Feel free to copy & translate the kit contents into your own language for you AND for others :) )


Team referent

Gala : gala@openfoodfacts.org

Connect with other members

On the Forum category Represent @Events

On the Slack : following channels - #communityawareness, #communication-en, #communication-fr

Perks of being a volunteer at Open Food Facts

⭐Collective action / Impact / actively contributing to citizen science !

⭐Highlighting global impact / individual impact (through testimonials, invites)

⭐Developing skills, learning new ones

⭐Events (annual Open Food Facts days, meet-ups…)

⭐Goodies

⭐LinkedIn volunteer badge / recommendations

Other teams

How can I join a specific team ? Fill out the Contributor Skill Pool.

Main page of HOW TO HELP.