Open Food Facts Days 2023

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Our community days are back on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd of October 2023 in Paris, France

Each year, we dedicate a weekend to the Open Food Facts community and it is a very special time.

Why ?

First of all, because Open Food Facts wouldn’t exist without its community members, in various corners of the world, who are contributing daily with food products data, but also their skills in coding, translation, communication, networking (to name just a couple) and their time.

Secondly, we get to meet each other in person, human to human, not through a screen.

Thirdly, this time together is for dreaming, generating ideas and solutions for how to make them become a reality and empower more people to make more informed food decisions for their health & that of our planet !

Last year, we were very thankful to the Académie du Climat / City of Paris, who let us use 3 of their spaces free of charge (one of which is particularly special as it used to be the Wedding Hall of the former Mairie/ town hall)!

This year, they are welcoming us once again! 💫 2 exciting days of fellowship & creativity around the Open Food Facts food revolution!

📹 Video with some of last year's highlights

Article: Our 2022 edition here

Address of the venue

Académie du Climat

2, Place Baudoyer – Paris 4e

Map: https://osm.org/go/0BOd5fdpP

Metro stops: Hôtel de Ville (1 and 11) – Saint-Paul (1) – Pont Marie (7)

In the building, head to Floor "2" - Salle des Fêtes

Programme here (still in progress):

🗓 Saturday 21st October

9 - 9.30	Registration & Coffee
9.30 - 9.45	Introduction
9.45 - 10.15	Lightning talk #1: New App
9.45 - 10.15	Lightning talk #2: Internationalisation
9.45 - 10.15	Lightning talk #3: Harry (Horizon x OFF)
9.45 - 10.15	Q&A
10.15 - 12.15	Barcamp workshops
12.20 - 14.00	🥗 Lunch: each one gets their own
14. - 14.40	🎤 Guest speaker
14.40 - 15.	Q/A
15. - 16.15	Workshops
16.15 - 16.30	Group photo
16.30 - 17.	☕ Coffee break
17 - 17.10	A special moment
17.10 - 18.	Lightning talk #4
	Lightning talk #5
	Lightning talk #6
	Q&A
18.	🥂 Apéritif time (à la Buvette) followed by dinner

🗓 Sunday 22st October

9.30-10	🥐 Registration & Coffee
10 - 10.45	Brief presentation of Annual news
	Brief presentation of Annual news
	Lightning talk - Special grant
	Q&A
10.45 - 12.	"Doers" workshop
12. - 13.30	🍕Lunch : each one gets their own
13.30 - 16.	"Doers" workshop
16. - 16.15	☕ Coffee break
16.15 - 17	Goodbyes / help clean up

Lightning Talks 💁‍♀️

Please write down if you'd like to present a short (under 7 minutes) presentation with the other members:

Lightning talks 2023 proposals
Name	Proposal
Pierre & Edouard	New App
Harry	Reuser: Sorting app Horizon & Open Food Facts data
Manon	Internationalisation
John	Moving to a Micro-service model
Ben & April	UX Design
Raphael	Open Prices : a database to store product prices
Charles	Annual activity report
Gala	Community Grant

Language

Please note, as we are an international community, this event will be held in english & french.

Lunches 🌮

This year, due to logistical reasons, each one will be responsible for their own lunch. There are plenty of restaurant options, or bakeries (boulangeries) nearby; we can eat either by the Seine, or in the courtyard of the Académie, or upstairs in our hall (if the weather is capricious).

Here some suggestions to grab a bite ☕:

La Boulangerie du Marais (Closest bakery)

Bagelstein

La Buvette de l’Académie du Climat (veggie meal of the day)

Le Trumilou (French cuisine, 20€ formula (starter+main))

Ginsburger Vegetarian Superstar

La Perla (Mexican, lunch offer for 10,90€)

L’As du Fallafel (most famous Libanaise of the Marais)

Chez Marianne (less famous, but also very good *it’s cheaper to take out than to eat in)

Impérial House (Asian)

Bayan (Asian, big portions, good lunch offers)

La Bocamexa (Mexican, vegetarian options)