Going Global Team
Key dates and numbers
- 27/01/2014 - Open Food Facts goes worldwide: https://blog.openfoodfacts.org/fr/news/open-food-facts-devient-mondial
- 2024 - The journey is just 1% done
Why it matters
Goal 🎯
Let as many different nationalities benefit from the Open Food Facts database in their native language! 🌎
What we’ve done recently
What we are currently working on
What’s coming up next
How to get involved
Globally
- Reviewing translations pull requests on the Server, Mobile App, Web Content, Blog Content, Robotoff and more
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In your country
- Copywriting for the Open Food Facts blog / Website about local issues/events…
- Complete the Country Support page for your country
- Translations using Crowdin and the online taxonomy translation system
- Enhancing taxonomies for your language or country (food labels, food categories, ingredients…)
- Coordinating with the communication team to ensure media coverage in new countries
- Coordinating with the communication team to maintain our localized social media channels 📣
- Coordinating with the communication team to publish localized blogposts on Wordpress once they are translated
- Coordinating with the communication team to localize visuals (communication, blogposts) using Figma and Canva
- Coordinating with the communication team to localize the Knowledge Base
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Tools 🛠
| TOOL | WHAT ? |
|---|---|
| Translation wikipage | Translations using Crowdin (https://translate.openfoodfacts.org) and the online taxonomy translation system |
| Taxonomies wikipage | Enhancing taxonomies for your language or country (food labels, food categories, ingredients…) |
| How to get started on Crowdin | A quick tutorial to start your first translation on Crowdin |
| Communication team wikipage 🎁 | Coordinating with the communication team to ensure media coverage in new countries |
| Country coordination wikipages | There might already be one for your country. If not, use our template to get started |
Helping maintain our localized social media channels 📣
English
Localized social media channels
- Localized social media channels: Public_Relations/Social_Media
Team referent
Pierre : pierre@openfoodfacts.org
Connect with other members
On the Forum category Going Global.
On the Slack : following channels - #going-global
You're also welcome to join the monthly e-meeting that takes place every 3rd Tuesday at 6pm CEST (Paris time): https://meet.google.com/sga-vtsr-cid
For convenience, you can subscribe to the Community Calendar: Events to get a monthly reminder
Perks of being a volunteer at Open Food Facts
⭐ Collective action / Impact / actively contributing to citizen science !
⭐ Highlighting global impact / individual impact (through testimonials, invites)
⭐ Developing skills, learning new ones
⭐ Events (annual Open Food Facts days, meet-ups…)
⭐ Goodies
⭐ LinkedIn volunteer badge / recommendations
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