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− | We will announce the new features related to internationalization in a blog post in the next few days (see English link below). It would be great to have it translated in different languages!
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− | == Languages ==
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− | * [[January 2014 - Open Food Facts is getting global - English]]
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− | * [[January 2014 - Open Food Facts is getting global - French]]
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− | * [[January 2014 - Open Food Facts is getting global - Spanish]]
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− | * [[January 2014 - Open Food Facts is getting global - your language? :-)]]
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− | To add a language, please copy the English text and HTML code from [[January 2014 - Open Food Facts is getting global - English]] in a new page, and replace the English text.
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− | To edit this page: first login on http://openfoodfacts.org (you can create an account in 10 seconds), and you can then be automatically logged in the wiki.
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− | == Text of the announcement (without links and images) == | + | <div class="small-12 medium-8 columns"> |
| + | <h1>Contribute to Open Food Facts</h1> |
| + | <h2 class="subheader">All you need is a scan-do attitude! :-)</h2> |
| + | <!-- note to translators: you can replace "All you need is a scan-do attitude!" by a sentence that works better |
| + | for your language. Something that says that it's easy to contribute and that all that is needed is good will and a positive / can-do attitude --> |
| + | <blockquote>Can we make the food industry more open and transparent? Yes we scan! |
| + | <!-- note to translators: please translate "Can we make the food industry more open and transparent" but keep "Yes we scan!" in English --> |
| + | <cite>1863 Open Food Facts contributors and growing - Since 2012</cite></blockquote> |
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| + | <img src="/images/svg/crowdsourcing-icon.svg" width="100%" style="max-width:356px" alt="Yes we scan!" /> |
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− | == Open Food Facts is getting global! ==
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− | Creating a database of food products from all around the world was the goal of Open Food Facts right from the start, and thanks to the work of many contributors and to a new architecture to support internationalization, this global database is becoming a reality! Open Food Facts now exists in 12 languages and contains data for 15778 products sold in 83 countries. But it's just the beginning!
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| + | <h2>Everyone can contribute</h2> |
| + | <h4 class="subheader">Be part of our collaborative, free and open database of food products from around the world!</h4> |
| + | <p>Open Food Facts is a non-profit project made entirely by volunteers, we do need you.</p> |
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− | When Open Food Facts was being designed 2 years ago, organizing products by language did not seem to be a bad idea. So we created sub-sites in English for products in English, in French for products in French, and then we had sub-sites in 11 languages thanks to the help of many contributors who translated the site.
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| + | <h3>Add products</h3> |
| + | <p>Use our <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.openfoodfacts.scanner">Android</a>, |
| + | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/open-food-facts/id588797948">iPhone</a> or |
| + | <a href="http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/openfoodfacts/5d7cf939-cfd9-4ac0-86d7-91b946f4df34">Windows Phone</a> app to |
| + | easily scan the barcode of products from your home or local stores and upload pictures of their label.</p> |
| + | <p>No smartphone? No problem: you can also use your camera to add products directly on the web site.</p> |
| + | <p>On the web site you can also fill in the information for products you added or others added.</p> |
| + | </div> |
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| + | <h3>Tell the world</h3> |
| + | <p>Do you like Open Food Facts? Tell others about it!</p> |
| + | <p>You can present the project to your family and friends, show them how to install the app and contribute, |
| + | write a blog post, share Open Food Facts on social media...</p> |
| + | <p>And present it live! We have presented Open Food Facts to very different audiences in very different settings, and |
| + | we always get a very enthusiastic response when we show what can be done when the data for products is open. We have lots |
| + | of <a href="/presentations">presentation materials</a> (slides etc.) that you can adapt or present as-is.</p> |
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− | But that model soon showed its limits:
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| + | <h3>Make it local</h3> |
| + | <p>You can help to <a href="http://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Translations">translate</a> the site and mobile app in your language, |
| + | and to translate presentations, announcements etc.</p> |
| + | <p>We can work together to support and add logos for local labels, to decode local packager codes so that we can map products etc.</p> |
| + | <p>Start or join a local contributors community: add local products, recruit friends, present the project in local meetups and |
| + | conferences etc.</p> |
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− | * Each product was listed on only one sub-site, but many products are labeled in multiple languages
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− | * Many countries share the same language and their products were mixed together. Having a single site in Spanish for products sold in Spain and products sold in Latin America made little sense.
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− | * Some countries use multiple languages, and products from Belgium, Switzerland, Algeria etc. were divided on multiple sites. South Africa has 11 official languages, and some countries have even more languages in use!
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− | Dividing the products in separate sub-sites for each language also made comparing products between countries quite difficult. We believe there is a lot to discover by analysing and comparing data for food products.
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| + | <h2>Expert help needed</h2> |
| + | <p>Developing Open Food Facts also requires specialized knowledge and expertise in many different areas:</p> |
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− | === New focus on countries and territories instead of languages === | + | <ul class="text-center small-block-grid-1 medium-block-grid-2 large-block-grid-3"> |
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| + | <h3>Project management</h3> |
| + | <p>We have tons of ideas and you probably have even more, but it is quite a challenge to prioritize them, |
| + | to build a roadmap, and to manage projects when every participant is a volunteer with often limited time available.</p> |
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| + | <h3>Design</h3> |
| + | <p>We need help to build a better user experience on the Open Food Facts web site and mobile app, to improve |
| + | their design, to create impactful presentation materials etc.</p> |
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− | In order to overcome those limits, we designed and deployed a new architecture to support internationalization. It is centered around countries and territories instead of languages. We still have sub-sites (one per country instead of one per language), but food products are not divided between them. Instead the sub-sites provide different "views" : you can choose to see the products sold in a specific country, or the products from the entire world. You can also choose to compare products with other products of the same category from the entire world, or with only products available in the same country.
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| + | <h3>Development</h3> |
| + | <p>We have a lot of development work to do: on the Open Food Facts backend (Perl and MongoDB), API (JSON), |
| + | web site (HTML5, JS, Foundation), iOS / Android / Windows Phone / FirefoxOS apps |
| + | (currently developed in HTML and JS with Apache Cordova / Phonegap), to build new cool reuses etc. |
| + | Our code is on <a href="https://github.com/openfoodfacts">GitHub</a>. |
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− | For each product we now track in which countries it is sold. The countries can be entered and editer like any other field, and by default we assign the country from which the product was first entered (using the GeoIP IP address to country database). In the future we can use other sources of data to have more complete lists of countries where a product is sold (e.g. using data provided by distributors and supermarkets, or using the geolocation of people who scan the barcode with a mobile application that uses Open Food Facts).
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| + | <h3>Community building</h3> |
| + | <p>We need to build local communities in all countries and at the same time unite them globally.</p> |
| + | <p>It is very difficult to bootstrap a local community in a country without living there, so your help |
| + | to find the first very motivated participants is essential. Are you one of them?</p> |
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− | === Open Food Facts still speaks 11 languages ===
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| + | <h3>Communication</h3> |
| + | <p>We are not sure what to write here, could you help?</p> |
| + | <p>More seriously, there are lot of cool things that users, contributors and reusers do with Open Food Facts, |
| + | it would be great to get more people to know about it. In particular we need help for public |
| + | and <a href="/presse">media relations</a>.</p> |
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| + | <h3>Special projects</h3> |
| + | <p>There are lots of interesting and original applications of food open data that we could work on with |
| + | government food agencies, food producers, researchers, universities, schools, NGOs etc. Maybe you already have ideas? |
| + | If you do, please help us to push them forward.</p> |
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− | 12 in fact, we just added Hebrew thanks to Yaron who translated the site! For each country you can choose to display the interface in one of the official languages of the country, or in English. And in the future you will probably be able to see products from any country in any language.
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− | For some of the 12 languages, the translation is still partial. You can help to complete the translation on our wiki.
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− | And if you speak another language, we would be very interesting in having you help to add it!
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| + | <h2>Let's talk!</h2> |
| + | <h4 class="subheader">A lot of ideas, energy and enthusiasm are shared in our contributors community, join us!</h4> |
| + | <p>Here are some places where you can meet other contributors, talk to them and work with them:</p> |
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− | === Global taxonomies for categories, labels and ingredients === | + | <ul class="text-center small-block-grid-1 medium-block-grid-2 large-block-grid-3"> |
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| + | <h3>Slack</h3> |
| + | <p>Slack is the best way to interact and collaborate with other contributors, developers and reusers. It's a discussion forum |
| + | you can access from your browser or your phone. It completely changed how we work together. Please try it, click on the button |
| + | below to get invited to our Slack.</p> |
| + | <script async defer src="http://slack.openfoodfacts.org/slackin.js"></script> |
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| + | <h3>Facebook groups</h3> |
| + | <p>We have <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/374350705955208/permalink/902105433179730/">Facebook groups for Open Food Facts contributors</a> in many languages. Joining them is a good way to get news about |
| + | the project and to share announcements to a wider audience. </p> |
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− | We already had hierarchies for categories (e.g. we know that if a product is in the Yogurts category, it should also be in the Dairy products category), but now those hierarchies are global. Spanish-speaking users can enter category names in Spanish, French-speaking users in French, but we can now map them to the names in English, which makes it very easy to compare a category of products from one country to another. Or to see products from all over the world for one category. | + | <li> |
| + | <h3>Wiki</h3> |
| + | <p>We also have a <a href="http://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/">wiki</a> that we use to collaboratively document Open Food Facts and its sub-projects. We also use the wiki |
| + | to manage <a href="http://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Translations">translations</a> and to work on the <a href="http://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Global_taxonomies">taxonomies / hierarchies</a> of categories, labels etc.</p> |
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− | We also have taxonomies for labels (e.g. organic, fair trade etc.) and we will build others for the other fields (packaging, origins etc.).
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− | It's all Greek to me!In fact we also have a project to build a global taxonomy of all ingredients. It would be a fantastic tool to build very useful applications. For instance next time you travel to a country for which you don't know the language (and maybe not even the alphabet, Chinese is all Greek to me!), you could just scan the barcode, and it would be very easy to display the ingredients in your language. With a global taxonomy of food products, we could also analyze the list of ingredients to tell you whether it contains gluten, lactose or another substance you may be allergic to.
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| + | <p>There are many more ways to contribute to Open Food Facts, please <a href="http://slack.openfoodfacts.org">join us on Slack</a> and let's start the discussion!</p> |
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− | Would you like to help to develop those taxonomies? Visit the Global Taxonomies page on our wiki!
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− | === It is just getting started ===
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− | 15 778 products is still a drop in the ocean of food products that are created all over the world.
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− | 12000 of those are from France where Open Food Facts started. So for France we now have a reasonnably representative set of products that allow some very interesting applications.
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− | For instance it's easy to create graphs that show nutrition facts for a category of products (e.g. sugars and additives in sodas). In a click you can see what food additives are the most used, and in another click what additives are the most used in organic products. We have built a map that shows where products are made, and we even created a game to understand how much sugars there is in food products.
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− | To replicate those applications and many more in your country, we need your help:
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− | * You can install our iPhone, Android or Windows Phone app and start adding products from your fridge and cupboards.
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− | * Available on the App Store Available on Google Play Windows Phone Store
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− | * You can talk about Open Food Facts on your site or blog, share it on Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter and local social networks and forums
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− | * You can help us with the translation of the site, the mobile app and the taxonomies
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− | * You can start a community of contributors in your country
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− | * You can join one of the projects that are listed on our wiki
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− | Thank you!
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