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
2025 Projects at Open Food Facts
Product Opener
- Owned by Stéphane
- Goal: Product Opener is the backend of Open Food Facts, powering product acquisition, analysis, the OFF website and the OFF API.
- How to join: #productopener on Slack and weekly call on Mondays
- Project Kanban: https://github.com/orgs/openfoodfacts/projects/145/views/1
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)
- Owned by Raphael
- Goal: Help contribution by leveraging Machine Learning, validated by users
- How to join: see #robotoff channel on Slack, weekly call advertised on the github project.
- Project Kanban: https://github.com/orgs/openfoodfacts/projects/16
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
- Project Kanban: https://github.com/orgs/openfoodfacts/projects/43/views/1
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…)
- How to join: Slack channel: #mobile-app
- GitHub: smooth-app & openfoodfacts-dart
- Project Kanban: https://github.com/orgs/openfoodfacts/projects/7
Open Prices
- Owned by Raphael O.
- Goal: explore tools and methods for retail price collection and analysis
- How to join: see #prices channel on slack.
- Project Kanban: https://github.com/orgs/openfoodfacts/projects/105
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
- Owned by Gala
- Goal: To spread the word about this citizen project to the four corners of the earth !
- How to join: Slack channels #communication-en, #communication-fr and join the Communication Team on the Contributor Skill Pool
- Project Kanban: https://github.com/orgs/openfoodfacts/projects/152
Ambassadors & Grantees
- Owned by Gala
- Goal: to promote and advance the mission of Open Food Facts within his/her respective country. Ambassadors act as key advocates, fostering awareness, engagement, and collaboration with local communities, policymakers, food manufacturers, and other local stakeholders.
- How to join: Please read the Guidelines to become an ambassador of Open Food Facts and reach out by writing to contact@openfoodfacts.org explaining briefly your motivations, adding as the subject of the mail "Ambassador Program Application". Slack channel #ambassadors (private).
- Project Kanban: https://github.com/orgs/openfoodfacts/projects/151/views/1
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
- Owned by Manon
- Goal: Seeking new partners to increase our impact, and onboard food manufacturers in Open Food Facts!
- How to join: join #partnerships or reach out to @Manon on Slack. Online meeting every couple of weeks, see Community agenda and Team partnerships - meeting minutes
- Project Kanban: https://github.com/orgs/openfoodfacts/projects/155/views/1
Going Global
- Owned by Manon
- Goal: Let as many different nationalities benefit from the Open Food Facts database in their native language!
- How to join: join #going-global or reach out to @Manon on Slack. Online meeting every months, see Community agenda and Team Going Global - meeting minutes
- Project Kanban:https://github.com/orgs/openfoodfacts/projects/156
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