Project:Food Rescue

The Food Rescue App project is about understanding expiry dates and the behaviour of food as it ages, in order to combat consumer food waste. It will result in additions to the Open Food Facts mobile applications, server software and web interface, but will probably also result in its own mobile application that utilizes barcode and category data from Open Food Facts.

This project received funding from the German Ministry of Education and Research between 2020-03 to 2020-08. In Germany, the project is known and promoted under the name "Real MHD App", where "MHD" is the typical abbreviation of "Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum", the German word for best-before date.

Project Resources

The project is using external workspaces. Here is the list of links:

• Project website. Focusing on our audience in Germany. Everything there is also contained here in the wiki.
• Prototype Fund webpage. A short description of our project by our funding agency, in German. (See also: auto-translated version.)
• Project dynalist. The central document with the complete technical documentation of the project, feature ideas, the project plan etc.. Publicly viewable, but you need additional permissions to edit.
• Git repository. Our fork of the Open Food Facts native Android app where we develop this project's software functionality.
• Slack channel. During the project runtime, we communicate mainly in the Open Food Facts slack channel #expirydates. To join, first invite yourself to the Open Food Facts Slack instance, then join that channel.
• Team contacts. Currently, Matthias Ansorg (matthias@ansorgs.de) is the main developer working on this project. He gets some help from others in the open source community, and you're welcome to contribute as well if you want.