Open Food Facts - Roadmap 2013
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Stephane Gigandet
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Crawl ecommerce websites (Carrefour, Auchan...)
How can we gain more products coverage?
Partnership with stores (organic food for example)
Partnership with food product companies
Promote opendata in the food industry
Lobby the government to force opendata/publication of product characteristics in the food industry
Distribute leaflets prompting local producers to add their products at Le Salon de l'Agriculture and other such events
Propose a mode in the App to ask the user to scan a specific kind of product (can you scan a Bread Loaf ?) that is under-represented in the DB
How can we get more qualitative coverage?
e.g. better pictures, more complete and accurate data etc.
Make UI improvements to streamline additions
Prompt the user when he is home via random (and few) notifications around lunchtime "Hey wanna open your fridge and contribute ?"
add a cooking time field
Use several clues to orient images properly
How can we get more visibility for the project?
In the press?
In the scientific community?
On social networks
in Education
In specialized conferences, exhibitions...
Get listed on the Chrome Webstore
Streamline social media posts
How can we promote reuse of the data?
Add interfaces for diet planners e.g. cron-o-meter, etc.
Contact Google to have the data integrated in the Knowledge Panels
Use microformats to make data discoverable by search engines
How can we improve the site?
Recruit more developers, not only contributors
How can we improve the mobile apps?
Features for users (and not just contributors)
How can we boost international versions and communities?
native apps
How can we build stronger contributor communities?
Add value to contribution (status for example, see StackOverflow point system)
How can you edit this mind map?
Please do edit, add and comment on this mindmap!
You can create a free account to edit the map: http://www.mindmeister.com/?r=40389
This mind map started on January 18th 2013.
This is an evolving roadmap, you can edit it anytime
How can we improve the existing data?
Harmonize brands, categories, labels, packaging etc.
Add more data
Move to Wikidata
How can we make adding products easier or faster?
Automate the process as much as possible
Get inspired by Amazon Mechanical Turk?
Radically simplify the UI
Who is interested in contributing and discussing this roadmap?
Please add your name (or userid on OFF)
Would you be interested to discuss it by video conference? (e.g. on Google+)
Would you be interested to meet in Paris in February?
What cool things could we do with the data?
Dataviz
Add geographical info as much as possible (link with Open Street Map)
Special projects
Aspartame
Differences in products from one country/region to another
Meat Scandal: where does the ingredient in a product come from ?
Partner with health organisations
How can we recruit more contributors?
Enable connection using the Wikipedia authentification, OpenID, Google, Facebook and Twitter
What else can we open besides food?
Wine
Cosmetics
Prescription drugs
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Open Food Facts roadmap This is a mind map to create the 2013 roadmap for Open Food Facts, a free, collaborative and open food products database : http://openfoodfacts.org #opendata This mindmap also exists in French: http://www.mindmeister.com/249708241/open-food-facts-feuille-de-route-2013 The 2 mind maps will be kept in synch (manually), you can contributer to either of them. Or if you can, it's even better to add your contributions to both.
Add missions related to completing items
Gamify item edition
Allow mass edit
Make assumptions to mass fill some fields
Add this link to the left sidebar: http://fr.openfoodfacts.org/etat/a-completer and name it: help us complete the products
