wow I am excited about this we have had conversations with farmOS over the years and clearly all thought it would be great if we ended up at this point, but neither had the resources or immediate urgency to focus on it. If you do that would be fantastic and you will be welcomed and supported.
I have played a bit with farmos for our farm here in aus but haven’t really ‘locked in’. I do use OFN though, and would happily be a guinea pig.
There is quite a bit to consider and some conversations about broader data structures that are relevant. For example, the Data Food Consortium project in France has drafted a standard for food systems tech to be interoperable, and we will be aiming to comply with that over time. We have just taken our first steps towards DFC-compliant endpoints see here and here. It could be interesting to look at this for farmOS too, as in how assets are translated to products that travel through the supply network
On the topic of networks - we are probably using the word differently, but we are also currently working on an evolution of the ‘network’ in open food ‘network’ i.e. better support for food supply networks where the same core ‘product’ moves through and is transformed in different ways by different supply chain partners. We are talking about using tagging in some way within this. It may not be relevant but I just noticed some uses of the same words and it could be interesting to explore parallels in our thinking. Pinging @Mario FYI
that’ll do for now - welcome
Kirsten