Hackathons

Upcoming Hackathons

2024 French Product Data Hackathon with various government entities

• Tentatively Nov 26 and 27 2024
• Location: Paris

Past Hackathons

2014 Food Open Data Challenge UK

• Local_Communities/UKTeam/Food_Open_Data_Challenge_UK_2014

2018 EU Publications Office/EFSA Hackathon

• Outcome: A new additives warning feature in the Website and in the App, shipped in production
• https://data.europa.eu/en/publications/use-cases/open-food-facts-collaborative-open-database-food-products-around-world
• Video testimonial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFPtxEHy2Zc
• Euractiv article: https://www.euractiv.fr/section/alimentation/news/eu-data-based-food-information-tool-crosses-the-border/
• Organizers: EFSA, EU Publications Office
• Location: Brussels

2021 Open Food Facts Google.org Fellowship hackathon

• Outcomes: A gamification engine called openfoodfacts-events, more (to be documented)
• Hackathon with the Google.org fellows gathered in Paris (in person)
• Location: Paris Googleplex
• Organizers: Google.org Fellows

2023 Perl Hackathon

• Annonce: https://www.agendadulibre.org/events/29850, https://linuxfr.org/users/alexg/journaux/hackathon-perl-open-food-facts-a-paris-les-samedi-23-et-dimanche-24-mars-2024
• Forum thread: https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/t/hackathon-perl-open-food-facts-in-paris/530#english-2
• Blogpost: https://blog.openfoodfacts.org/en/news/hackathon-with-perl-developers-around-open-food-facts
• Outcomes:
• Organizers: Open Food Facts, Mongueurs de Perl
• Location: Open Food Facts office, Paris

2024 XWiki Romania Mobile Hackathon

Outcomes: Organizers: Location: Iasi, Romania

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