I’m Pierre, from Open Food Facts.
I will be in Tirana this week to present Open Food Facts to food scientists. But of course, it’s also about Open Source, Open Data and Commons.
Wanna organize an impromptu meeting ?
Open Food Facts is a worldwide database of food products with ingredients, allergens, nutrition facts and all the tidbits of information we can find on product labels. https://world.openfoodfacts.org/discover
It is a non-profit association of volunteers : over 5000 contributors have added 300 000 products from 150 countries using our Android, iPhone or Windows Phone app or their camera to scan barcodes and upload pictures of products and their labels.
Data about food is of public interest and has to be open. The complete database is published as open data and can be reused by anyone and for any use.
Open Food Facts is a collaborative project , and we need help expanding to Albania: https://al.openfoodfacts.org
I’ll be there Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, with some constraints on Thursday and Friday (can be free from 6/7PM on thursday, probably earlier on Friday), and totally free on Saturday (flight back to Paris is leaving at 6:20PM).
What I thought we could do is a quick presentation, and then a Scan Party in a local supermarket
Hello @teolemon,
Thank you for sharing this on our forum. I would like to hear more about it.
We at Open Labs usually organize our events at afternoon, so if you want to present sth on thursday or friday it is okay also on 6pm.
Saturday is also an option during first part of the day.
I’ll try to poke around Thursday/Friday, but Saturday morning would be probably be more casual, since I’m not completely the master of my time on Thursday/Friday.
I was indeed thinking of a casual meetup (either before of after) and a scan party.
Do you know if the nearby SPAR would be ok with us scanning some food products from their aisles for a small scan party ?
the SPAR is pretty small, we can ask I guess. Alternatively, @IzabelaBakollari owns a grocery shop as well where we can eventually do that if she is okay with that
Would that be ok for everyone? Or it would be better the first part of the day? Please reply so i can add the event in the Open Labs activities wiki page.
Hey Jona dont worry it cant happen during the afternoon because @teolemon leaves around 6. It was my mistake… sorry for confusing everyone
Please propose times whoever wants to join… Unfortunately I wont be able to be there during the first part of the day but I will send the link to my friends.
Hey Guys, @Crowdfunding has a meeting tomorrow 10-11 am at the hackerspace tomorrow. I hope that doesn’t interfere? The space should be free immediately after the meeting