Local Communities/UKTeam
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Objectives
Missions
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
Projects
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
Labels
Industry labels
Public & Independent labels
Religious labels
Laws
Traffic light systems and others
Food Scandals
Consumer Organisations
National food companies
Independant brands
- List them here
Distributor brands
- List them here
🏭 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
Supermarket chains
Geographic food origins databases
Local databases of interest
Open Food Facts like websites and apps
Translations
Communities we can reach out to
- Facebook groups (local food, slow food, non-GMOs, organic…)
- Meetups
- Industry events
Local App Stores
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
Local OFF contributor missions
Open Products Facts
Past and present United Kingdom issues on 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
Get in touch
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