Project:Roadmap
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How can we gain more products coverage?
(See Project:Partnerships)
- Partnership with stores (organic food for example)
- Partnership with food product companies
- Invite companies to add their products
- Promote opendata in the food industry
- Lobby the government to force opendata/publication of product characteristics in the food industry
- Distribute leaflets prompting local producers to add their products at Le Salon de l'Agriculture and other such events
- Propose a mode in the App to ask the user to scan a specific kind of product (can you scan a Bread Loaf ?) that is under-represented in the DB
- Incentivize users
- Crawl ecommerce websites (Carrefour, Auchan...)
How can we get more qualitative coverage?
(See Project:Error detection)
e.g. better pictures, more complete and accurate data etc.
Make UI improvements to streamline additions
- select from categories rather than allowing free-text entry (current entries should be merged into the proper categories)
Prompt the user when he is home via random (and few) notifications around lunchtime "Hey wanna open your fridge and contribute ?"
add a cooking time field
Use several clues to orient images properly
- EXIF Data
- Text orientation through OCR
- Enable image rotation without having to edit the whole page
How can we improve the existing data?
Harmonize brands, categories, labels, packaging etc.
(See Global taxonomies)
Categories
Under way in French
Ingredients
Reward merging and make it super easy and fun to merge
Part of the app where the system asks yes/no questions for suspected duplicates.
Add more data
Additives
Origin, risk levels etc.
Taste Profile
Think Mymuesli; for some products it is equally as interesting to know how it tastes as how healthy or sustainable it is. It is a balance.
climate gas emissions
eaternity.org had a [project](https://wemakeit.com/projects/co-score-of-all-foods?locale=en) to calculation the CO2-eq emissions. These data have been supposed to be published.
Move to Wikidata
Link data with Freebase/Wikidata (using Brands and Companies) (link)
Is anyone working on this link?
What cool things could we do with the data?
Dataviz
(See project Project:Dataviz)
New graphs that show the actual colors of food coloring in products
e.g. in scatter plot or pie charts
Add geographical info as much as possible (link with Open Street Map)
Represent in a map a category of products to see their regional distribution: citrics, oliva oils, wines, beers...
Trying to encourage local food consumption: e.g. following the California's 100 miles movement, place in a map a cicle surrounding your site with a 100 miles (or km) distance and the products inside that circle. More concentric circles can be added at diferent distances: 300 km, 1000 km...
How can we improve the mobile apps?
(See project Project:Mobile Apps)
How can we boost international versions and communities?
See Project:Internationalization
How can we promote reuse of the data?
How can we improve the site?
Responsive
How can we build stronger contributor communities?
Add value to contribution (status for example, see StackOverflow point system)
How can we recruit more contributors?
(See Project:Contributors)
Target specific communities who can be interested by some aspects of the data we are gathering (link)
Quantified Self community
Dedicated food log app?
Collectors
- e.g. sodas, cans, sardines...
Groups with special dietary needs
See Project:Halal
See Project:Kosher
See Project:Atkins diet
- e.g.vegetarians/vegans, celiacs, lactose intolerance, Halal, Kosher, Atkins diet...
Add an app to track BestBefore dates, what's in your fridge, what you should buy, and prompt for data input if not available. If Available, prompt for photos/whatever on a random basis to avoid annoying the user too much
dieteticians
Consumer associations (UFC Que Choisir, and their members and networks)
See Project:Consumer associations
Enable connection using the Wikipedia authentification, OpenID, Google, Facebook and Twitter
How can we get more visibility for the project?
(See Project:Growth Hacking) (See Project:PR)
In the press?
- Contact specialized journalists about health issues and scandals (eg provide them data on salt in products, meat...)
- Develop a narrative around: "The wikipedia of the Food Industry", opening little secrets...
In the scientific community?
Health
Nutrition
Computer science
- Student projects
- We can propose interesting problems to solve that students can drive and resolve.
- Improve ingredients recognition from photos
- Logos (Bio / Organic, Max Havelaar etc.) detection
On social networks
- Regular posts about products being currently advertised, and a fact check against their OFF page.
- Use Email Verification to promote the Google+ page within gmail : https://support.google.com/plus/answer/3190197?hl=fr
in Education
projects with schools, universities
Edit-a-Thons
Coding projects, see above
In specialized conferences, exhibitions...
- Le Salon de l'Agriculture
- AgroIndustry Exhibitions
- OpenData/FOSS exhibitions (link)
- dieteticians fairs (link)
Get listed on the Chrome Webstore
Take advantage of being a Chrome App by using various available APIs and distribution methods
Streamline social media posts
Sync Facebook and Twitter so that Twitter posts get posted to Facebook
Use a system (command line or anything) to post to all social networks at the same time (link)
How can we get rid of the Big Bad Backlog ? (link)
(See Project:Big Bad Backlog)
- Nutrition data finder: Crops images for nutrition data
- Ingredients finder: Crops images for ingredients
- Brand Maniac: Add 10 missing brands to products
- Add a mission for each missing field
Gamify item edition
- Create a custom page where the system asks: Can you see a "Biologique" logo on any of these images, How much does the product weight ? …
- Ask the same question to several people & Validate data if they agree on the value
- Allow mass edit
- Make smart assumptions to mass fill some fields
- Dia products are sold in Dia
- Auchan products are sold in Auchan
- …
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