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Ongoing projects

NutriSight

• Owned by Raphael B
• Goal: Train a machine learning model to automatically extract nutrition information from product images.
• How to join: see the #robotoff channel on slack.

AI Ingredient Spellcheck

• Owned by Jerem Arancio
• Goal: Automatically correct OCR errors in ingredient lists using a machine learning model.
• How to join: see the #robotoff channel on slack.

Project:Open-Prices

• Owned by Raphael Odini with the help of Raphael B and Pierre S
• Obj: explore tools and methods for retail price collection and analysis
• https://github.com/openfoodfacts/open-prices
• GDPR request
• How to join: see #prices channel on slack.

Eco-Score

• Owned by User:Teolemon; with the participation of User:Stephane, @VaiTon, @Aleene, ...
• Provide a score to decrypt environmental impacts of products.
• Status: 2021-01: launched a first version on OFF website and apps (for more than 240,000 products)
• Needs: ...
• How to join: see the #eco-score channel on slack.

Project:Personalized_Search

• Owned by User:Stephane; with the participation of ...
• This project will allow users of the Open Food Facts website, mobile app and our 100+ mobile apps ecosystem, to get highly personalized search results without sacrificing their privacy.
• Status: 2021-01: 8 months ongoing project, near finished.
• Needs: ...
• How to join: see its dedicated wiki page and #personal-search slack channel

Search-a-licious

• Owned by: User:Alexg
• Description:
• Status:
• How to join: See details of the Slack channel in the full page

Open Food Facts answers you

• Owned by User:Charlesnepote; with the participation of @jolesh, @aleene
• Every week, Open Food Facts is receiving many questions from the general public. The goal of the project is to let contributors join the effort to answer different kind of questions, and different languages.
• Status: 2021-01: the platform is installed and running, but needs more work to have a fluent process.
• How to join: see the #contacts channel on slack or ask User:Charlesnepote.

Taxonomy Editor

• Owned by User:Alexg.
• Description:
• Status: 2021-01: 2 months projects. 2024 - deployed
• How to join: ask User:Alexg.

Folksonomy_Engine

• Owned by User:Charlesnepote; with the participation of @cquest.
• The goal of Folksonomy engine is to unleash an ocean of new usages regarding food knowledge. 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. Open Food Facts, as the biggest open-food database in the world, already feeds hundreds of data reuses. It will allow thousands of new apps and new usages.
• Status: 2022-03: in production for moderators; needs to be published as beta for registered users.
• How to join: See details of the Slack channel in the full page

Hunger Games

• Owned by User:Alexfauquette; with the participation of User:Teolemon.
• The goal of Hunger Games is to bring gamification to the data annotation. Allows people that have 5-10min to products instead of playing candy crush.
• Status: live at https://hunger.openfoodfacts.org/
• How to join: slack channel #hunger-games

New blog engine

• We want to change our blog platform to allow more features (such as responsive design), and open contributions to more people.
• Needs: install the new platform; migrate old blogposts to the new platform; design the website; add features depending on users' needs.
• Status: done
• How to join: join #infrastructure to help update it or ask User:Charlesnepote.

Forum

• Slack is cool, but it's only a chat. It does not allow structured discussions. Many users ask for a more convenient way to discuss the project.
• Needs: gather our needs; choose a tool (Discourse, Odoo...); install it; design the website.
• Status: done - https://forum.openfoodfacts.org/
• How to join: join #infrastructure to help update it or ask User:Charlesnepote.

Projects to be rebooted

Contributor Analysis

• Started by a team from Wild Code School, initially mentored by @stephane and @teolemon
• Goal: Set up a contributor tracking tool
• Documents

 * Presentation Demo Day
 * Client & server requests
 * Contributor Analysis Installation Guide
 * Improvements

• Status: 2022-03: Needs new ownership
• How to join: ...

To be started soon

Open Food Facts loves science (and scientists)

• No owner yet.
• 1. Communicate what we are doing for science (data reuses for studies), and with scientists. 2. Explain how we can collaborate and suggest to scientists to contact us.
• Needs: list main scientific articles based on our data; explain how we can collaborate; write a dedicated page on OFF website; maybe: write blog posts.
• Status: 2021-01: 2 months projects.
• How to join: ask User:Charlesnepote.

Open Food Facts sustainable API Proxy

• No owner yet.
• Open Food Facts API usage is free and will remain free for all users. Though, it is made for reasonable usages: 1 API call = 1 real scan by a user. Our resources are not sized for dozens of requests at a time. For example, while building dashboards with Google Spreadsheet is feasible via Open Food Facts API, we tend to block this kind of request as it consumes too many resources. The goal of OFF API Proxy is to allow dozens of requests at a time, the proxy queuing requests passing them to the API at a reasonable rate (2 requests/s). The proxy is also using caches, allowing a more sustainable usage of the API.
• Needs: If you do have Nginx skills, your contribution would be appreciated.
• Status: 2021-01: 1-month project.
• How to join: ask User:Charlesnepote.

Google Summer of Code

• Open Lists‎
• Project Smoothie/GSoC
• Nutrition facts table data extraction/GSoC‎
• Hunger Games/GSoC‎
• Folksonomy Engine/Flutter interface
• External authentication service
• Automatic rule editing engine‎
• Community federation portal and gamification
• Setup an external authentication service‎
• Taxonomy editor
• Autonomous taxonomy service

To be presented

• Nextcloud

Re-design 🎨

• Owned by:
• Description: Redesigning the Open Food Facts platform
• Status:
• How to join: See details of the Slack channel in the full page

Food archeology 🕰️

• Owned by:
• Description: Adding very old products to Open Food Facts
• Status:
• How to join: See details of the Slack channel in the full page

Accessibility (Blindness,…)

• Owned by:
• Description: Improving accessibility for users with disabilities, including blindness
• Status:
• How to join: See details of the Slack channel in the full page

Community portal 🤝

• Owned by:
• Description: Creating a central hub for the Open Food Facts community
• Status: Dropped. The GSOC project pivoted to something more technically reasonable for the student.
• How to join: Slack channel:

Contribute back ♻️

• Owned by:
• Description: Encouraging contributors to give back to the project
• Status:
• How to join: Slack channel:

Diets 🥗

• Owned by:
• Description: Categorizing products based on dietary needs and restrictions
• Status:
• How to join: Slack channel:

Structured Data (Wikidata linking) 🕸️

• Owned by:
• Description: Improving the structure and organization of data, including linking with Wikidata
• Status:
• How to join: Slack channel:

Gamifying OFF 🎮

• Owned by:
• Description: Adding game-like elements to Open Food Facts to increase engagement
• Status:
• How to join: See details of the Slack channel in the full page

Experiments: Microwaves, fridges, AR and 3D 🧪

• Owned by:
• Description: Exploring new technologies and their potential applications for Open Food Facts
• Status:
• How to join: Slack channel:

Barcodes

• Owned by:
• Description: Managing and improving barcode recognition and handling - (Non Standard Barcodes, Blacklist, False positives, Countries)
• Status:
• How to join: See details of the Slack channel in the full page

OCR 🧾

• Owned by:
• Description: Enhancing Optical Character Recognition for extracting product information from images
• Status: Dropped, as Robotoff is now handling this perfectly

Public data 🔓

• Owned by:
• Description: Making Open Food Facts data more accessible and usable for the public
• Status:
• How to join: See details of the Slack channel in the full page

Roadmap 🎯

• Owned by:
• Description: Planning and outlining the future development of Open Food Facts
• Status:
• How to join: See details of the Slack channel in the full page

Project:EU Project Citizen Observatories 🇪🇺

• Owned by:
• Description: Collaborating with the EU Citizen Observatories project
• Status:
• How to join: Slack channel:

Ingredients ontology 🌿

• Owned by:
• Description: Creating a structured vocabulary for ingredients
• Status:
• How to join: See details of the Slack channel in the full page

Food additives 🧪

• Owned by:
• Description: Cataloging and providing information about food additives
• Status:
• How to join: See details of the Slack channel in the full page

Multilingual products 🌐

• Owned by:
• Description: Supporting product information in multiple languages
• Status:
• How to join: Slack channel:

Product versions and history 🕒

• Owned by:
• Description: Tracking changes and updates to products over time
• Status:
• How to join: Slack channel:

Product issues dropdown list 🚩

• Owned by:
• Description: Creating a standardized list of product issues for reporting
• Status:
• How to join: Slack channel: