This is a place for strategic and organizational topics - the work beyond user support, which is often handled in Slack. This category is for the Instance Manager community to organize around instance-level issues and inter-instance communications as well as communications with other circles. While Slack is more immediate and maybe better for conversations and discussions, this category is for recording careful proposals and providing feedback on things like the funding features conversation, identifying how and when an instance is supported by the core team, how instance managers can support each other in their work, regional and other partnerships, minutes for Instance Managers Circle meetings, and whatever impacts the whole community and needs to be a reference.

Having trouble with something in the Open Food Network? Wondering how something works, or discovered a bug? Post your inquiry here and someone from the community or OFN support team will respond!

Discussion about this site, its organization, how it works, and how we can improve it.

The 'Development' topic is the source of truth for the OFN pipeline of work, detailing how a feature is to be developed and including designs and testing notes.

This is the place to discuss:

The software improvement category is where the global community identifies how the platform can be improved, the biggest problems to be solved, and the solutions to be built to solve them.

Here you'll find all the details of new or changed features and any bug fixes that are included in each OFN release.