Student projects/GSOC/2017 ideas list
Here is the list of Open Food Facts proposed projects for the Google Summer of Code.
Any questions can be asked on the dedicated channel on Slack (https://openfoodfacts.slack.com/messages/summerofcode)
Projects
Integrate a cloud-based OCR into Product Opener
- Process all uploaded images proactively using Tesseract and/or the New Cloud based engine
- Store JSON and return a processed version to mobile client and/or web client for suggestions to the user
- Add support to search into OCR results
- Create a mini-game to let users turn the Raw OCR into data
Mentor:Stéphane or Laurent
Language:Perl
Improve the edit workflow on mobile
Open Food Facts and Open Beauty Facts rely on crowdsourcing. The easier it is for contributors to complete a product, the faster the base grows. This project is about improving the contribution flow on the mobile app.
Mentor:Stéphane and Pierre
Language:Strong UX skills, good knowledge of Cordova, good HTML and Javascript
Improve the edit workflow online
Open Food Facts and Open Beauty Facts rely on crowdsourcing. The easier it is for contributors to complete a product, the faster the base grows. This project is about improving the contribution flow online.
Mentor:Stéphane and Pierre
Language:Strong UX skills, good HTML and Javascript, some knowledge of Perl
Create a power contribution tool
Open Food Facts and Open Beauty Facts rely on crowdsourcing. The easier it is for contributors to complete a product, the faster the base grows. This projects is about creating a standalone power-edit tool using the API
Mentor:depending on your tech choice
Language:Any web language (Rail, Python, Backend JS framework)
Create an Open Food Facts mobile game
Imagine a game where products would be useful items on your quest, and scanning them would unlock bonuses, Lifepoints…
This is about creating a game that would be a fun way to discover more about food or cosmetics and/or contribute to Open Food/Beauty Facts.
Mentor:
Language: Java, Swift/ObjC or Web technologies (Cordova…)
Your own idea
You can of course propose your own great idea, as long as it's suitable in terms of workload with the requirements of the Summer of Code.
Mentors
- Name or pseudonym - Skills - Available time for mentoring
- Add yourself !
- Project:Archeology
- Project:Blind people
- Project:Community portal
- Project:Contribute Back
- Project:Current events
- Project:Error detection
- Project:Mobile version
- Project:Mobile Apps
- Project:What's in my yogurt?
- Project:Structured Data
- Project:Internationalization & Global taxonomies & Translations
- Project:Fast Food
- Project:Gamification
- Project:Google Glass
- Project:Made Near You
- Project:Media monitoring
- Project:Microwave
- Project:Non Standard Barcodes
- Project:OCR
- Project:Public Data
- Project:Roadmap
- Project:Social Media
- Project:Stands
- Project:ProductOpener
- Project:Food Open Data Challenge UK 2014
- Project:EU Project Citizen Observatories
- Project:Redesign
- Project:Food establishments