Events team
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 🛠
🇬🇧 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
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