What is the need / problem
There are Enterprises who are or want to use OFN for profiling and mapping food system actors that are:
- not producers or shops / hubs; and/or
- with greater differentiation between food hubs / shops / producers e.g. more clearly see CSA, farmers’ market etc
Who does it impact
- Instance managers / communities working with people who want to use directory / search
- Groups wanting to showcase broader activity / actors in their group than just producers and hubs
What is the current impact of this problem
Everything just gets put under ‘shops’ or ‘producers’ so visibility and access to other organisations is lost, and people actually shopping have no way to filter ‘non-shop’ or ‘different hub’ enterprises
Australian examples are potential for Education, Community Builder (or whatever) orgs like NEC, or Milkwood/3000acres to not be listed as Hubs
What is the benefit in focusing on this
Drawing more users, particularly groups onto OFN through gradual improvement of directory / search. This is an immediate pain point for existing user in Aus.
Ideas / Feature Candidate
- Enable a different icon and colour to be set for enterprise icon for display in map, shop (maybe producer?) pages
- Set / allowed at Instance level? or Group might also be allowed to create one
Q: how would it be handled in search and filter? Basic implementation not at all, purely display only