Roadmap/2025

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About this roadmap

Here's the Open Food Facts Roadmap 2025.

Its objective is to clarify what the community is working on this year.

Why this selection? To advance and achieve some key projects, we need to prioritise them. Another reason is that some of these projects are funded, with deadlines. We are also limited in terms of human resources, so as much as we'd like to advance on some topics, we are just not able to do it all at once.

So we really hope that you will join us on this roadmap!

Overview

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2025 Projects at Open Food Facts

Product Opener

Folksonomy Engine

  • Owned by Charles
  • Goal: Folksonomy engine allows all kind of people — citizens, researchers, journalists, professionals, artists, communities, innovators... — to enrich and use Open Food Facts, thanks to free tags and properties of their own, for their own use or to enrich the shared knowledge. 2025 will focus on Open Products Facts and Open Beauty Facts' integration.
  • How to join: see #folksonomy-engine channel on Slack
  • Project Kanban: https://github.com/orgs/openfoodfacts/projects/5/views/5

Robotoff (AI)

Open Products Facts

  • Owned by Pierre
  • Goal: Open Products Facts is the database unlocking and defragmenting circular usages for all the objects that surround us (non-food, non-cosmetic, non petfood products).
  • How to join: Slack channel: #openproductsfacts
  • Wiki page: Open Products Facts

GitHub repository

Open Everything Facts

  • Owned by Pierre
  • Goal: Open Food Facts is an open and collaborative database of 3.5M food products from around the world. This project will improve the Open Food Facts app to make it possible to power mobile choices on food, cosmetics, pet food and all other products. It will bring simplify the layout of the product page, while catering the new kinds of products. It will simplify and future proof our privacy-preserving customisation engine.
  • How to join: #mobile and the smooth-app repository
  • Project Kanban: https://github.com/orgs/openfoodfacts/projects/139

Data Quality

  • Owned by Charles
  • Goal: Good enough data quality for most common usages: how to monitor? how to fix? how to prevent?
  • How to join: #quality-data channel on Slack; weekly meetup the first Tuesday of each month, announced on Slack
  • Project Kanban: https://github.com/orgs/openfoodfacts/projects/44

Search-a-licious

  • Owned by Alex
  • Goal: The next gen of Open Food Facts Search! Making search accurate and fast. We need to focus on putting it in production: rewriting the schema, fixing bugs.
  • How to join: see #searchalicious channel on Slack
  • Project Kanban: https://github.com/orgs/openfoodfacts/projects/96/views/2

Mobile App

  • Owned by Pierre
  • Goal: The mobile app has permitted for 12 years to grow the database, empower millions of people to scan barcodes to discover Nutri-Score and Eco-Score for the first time. It gathers product photos and data from contributors, helping them to get the scores as quickly as possible, 100% of the time It tries to give back as much daily use value to users and contributors as possible (Knowledge such as Nutri-Score, NOVA, Eco-Score, Lists, Search…)

Open Prices

Foodture

  • Owned by Manon
  • Goal: FOODTURE is a European project to better measure and reduce the environmental and health impacts of food. Open Food Facts contributes by improving ingredient analysis (Recipe Estimator) and co-developing open tools to help manufacturers and citizens make more sustainable choices (developments on the Pro platform side).
  • How to join: this project is not open to public contributions yet

Infrastructure & Monitoring

  • Owned by Alex
  • Goal: Have servers withstanding the charge, with good security and good backups. This year we have opportunity to install new servers, we also want to make this process more automatic (ansible) to be more agile. We need to make infrastructure more robust and easy to manage.
  • How to join: #infrastructure channel and monthly call (see community agenda)
  • Project Kanban: https://github.com/orgs/openfoodfacts/projects/19

Funding the Common

  • Owned by Manon
  • Goal: Actively looking for new funding sources that aren't tied to specific projects, in order to support the core activities of the common good — including its development, maintenance, and promotion.
  • How to join: this project is not open to public contributions yet

CRM

  • Owned by Manon
  • Goal: We use the CRM to manage different contacts, but most importantly, the producers we have convinced to share their data (or those we are trying to convince). This year we would like to upgrade Odoo version, and bring more automation to make producers support more efficient. We also want to better leverage Odoo for other tasks like event subscriptions.
  • How to join: #connect channel on Slack
  • Project Kanban: https://github.com/orgs/openfoodfacts/projects/93

NGO operations (the human and legal infrastructure)

  • Owned by Charles
  • Goal: Open food Facts is ruled by an NGO, operated by a permanent team. The permanent Open Food Facts team takes care of the things that the community can't easily handle: coordinating software development, legal matters, partnership projects, fundraising, annual events, and so on.

Community Animation

  • Owned by Gala
  • Goal: To foster a friendly & helpful community of contributors at Open Food Facts; to create opportunities for connection; to equip with various resources.
  • How to join: join #communityanimation or reach out to @Gala on Slack.
  • Project Kanban: https://github.com/orgs/openfoodfacts/projects/150/views/1

Communication

Ambassadors & Grantees

Pro Platform

  • Owned by Manon
  • Goal: The Pro platform allows food manufacturers to update product data and access free portfolio analysis tools. This year we will be working on the maintenance of automated imports, improving the user management process, build a dashboard and creating an automatic report with products insights to encourage food manufacturers to join the platform, and improve their products.
  • How to join: join #partnerships or reach out to @Manon on Slack
  • Project Kanban: https://github.com/orgs/openfoodfacts/projects/41

Partnerships

Going Global

Note about Github kanbans:

designed only for defined/decided tasks and not an idea box; or tasks that are taken on by volunteers (and therefore assigned).

Note on how to join Slack

See https://slack.openfoodfacts.org, you can also learn about other communications tool on Communication

More on-going projects

See Projects homepage