Going Global Team

Let as many different nationalities benefit from the Open Food Facts database in their native language! 🌎

Copywriting for the Open Food Facts blog / Website about local issues/events…
Translations using Crowdin and the online taxonomy translation system
Enhancing taxonomies for your language or country (food labels, food categories, ingredients…)
- You can get inspiration from:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cuisines
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_prepared_foods
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_food_and_beverage_topics
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_foods
Coordinating with the communication team to ensure media coverage in new countries
Coordinating with the communication team to maintain our localized social media channels 📣
Reviewing translations pull requests on the Server, Mobile App, Web Content, Blog Content, Robotoff and more
Coordinating with the communication team to publish localized blogposts on Wordpress once they are translated
Coordinating with the communication team to localize visuals (communication, blogposts) using Figma and Canva
Coordinating with the communication team to localize the Knowledge Base
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TOOL	WHAT ?
Translation wikipage	Translations using Crowdin (https://translate.openfoodfacts.org) and the online taxonomy translation system
Taxonomies wikipage	Enhancing taxonomies for your language or country (food labels, food categories, ingredients…)
How to get started on Crowdin	A quick tutorial to start your first translation on Crowdin
Communication team wikipage 🎁	Coordinating with the communication team to ensure media coverage in new countries
Country coordination wikipages	There might already be one for your country. If not, use our template to get started

Pierre : pierre@openfoodfacts.org

On the Forum category Going Global.

On the Slack : following channels - #going-global

You're also welcome to join the monthly e-meeting that takes place every 3rd Tuesday at 6pm CEST (Paris time): https://meet.google.com/sga-vtsr-cid

For convenience, you can subscribe to the Community Calendar: Events to get a monthly reminder

⭐ 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

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