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Members

Coordinators

Coordinators recruit and manage the local community and local

• you? :-)

Participants

You can add your name to the list with a brief summary of what interests you the most and in what areas you would like to contribute. Thank you!

• User:Tacinte -
• User:Bcatelin -
• User:Stephane - backend, site web, apps mobiles avec Phonegap - Perl, JS, MongoDB
• User:Teolemon
• User:Arthur - Localisation for the UK, and web development.
• you? :)

Resources

UK Meetups

Create a UK contributors community

Goals

• Complete English translation, ensure that no French remains (on the web site, mobile apps etc.)
• Complete the merge of the French and English categories
• Translate marketing materials
• Check the support for UK-specific fields on labels
  • e.g. packaging codes, nutrition trafic lights etc.

Food Open Data Challenge (2014)

• http://www.nesta.org.uk/project/the-open-data-challenge-series/food-open-data-challenge
• Position Open Food Facts as a source of data for challenge participants
• and possibly participate ourselves (as a source of data, and/or with applications of our data)
• Detailed page: Food Open Data Challenge UK 2014

Food categories

• You can help completing United Kingdom categories and labels for the Eco-Score

Labels

• Help complete country-specific labels on Hunger Games: https://hunger.openfoodfacts.org/dashboard/united-kingdom

Laws

• https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/User:Tacinte#UK_Regulation_on_Food_Labelling
• Food_additives#United Kingdom
• Dates_on_the_products#United Kingdom

Consumer Organisations

Consumer_associations#United Kingdom

National food companies

Independant brands

• List them here

Distributor brands

• List them here

Help convince local producers to share their data

🏭 Food manufacturers and retailers Yes! To enrich the database, we can count on contributors... but also on food manufacturers! Indeed, as they are the source of the data, which often means that they are able to provide good quality data, and in bigger volumes than manual individual contributions.
Help convince local producers to share their data

Communities we can reach out to

• Facebook groups (local food, slow food, non-GMOs, organic…)
• Meetups
• Industry events
• Add your national coeliac/gluten non profit association
• Add your national Vegan non profit association
• Add your national Vegetarian non profit association
• Add your national Lactose patients non profit association

Open Prices - Access to Information requests (GDPR requests)

As part of Project:Open-Prices, we need price points for products, loads of them.

If you have a fidelity card, you can ask your data, using the GDPR (if you're in a EU country, or using other laws if you're elsewhere). https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/GDPR_request#United Kingdom

Open Products Facts

• Object_donation_websites#United Kingdom

Past and present United Kingdom issues on GitHub

• Kingdom United Kingdom issues on the Backend/Web/API (GitHub)
• Kingdom United Kingdom issues on the Mobile App (GitHub)

Data Completion statistics

• You can see Data Completion statistics for the UK at: https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Dashboard/United_Kingdom
• You can see the evolution of the number of products at: https://uk.openfoodfacts.org/product-count

Follow Open Food Facts on social media

• Open Food Facts has created presence on social media over the years in many languages. We now have the capacity to produce content in English and French, but we have a harder time translating and posting to all accounts. You can help by joining the marketing channel on Slack, and proposing to help for your language/country. Please get in touch with the permanent team before anything.
• Follow Open Food Facts social media accounts for the United Kingdom: Public_Relations/Social_Media_accounts#United Kingdom

Blogposts

• https://blog.openfoodfacts.org/en/news/open-food-facts-app-a-handy-free-resource-the-guardian
• https://blog.openfoodfacts.org/en/news/bbcs-the-food-chain-episode-ft-open-food-facts

Get in touch

Slack channel #United Kingdom