OFN - Software vs Organisation

Yep @yova I think you got it :slight_smile:

Look at Making OFN an open directory for all the local/sustainable food ecosystem which was a previous discussion on directory.
It’s just that we are not enough to open all those files at the same time but YES we want that map to list all the ecoystem of independant and regenerative agriculture oriented food hubs, whatever the tools they use.
I started in France to connect with some people who wanted to do that but I quicky understood some difficulties of building up to date directory sourcing info from various different sources, as mannually entering and maintaining such a directory would be tons of work and not really sustainable. That is one of the use cases we envision as well with the Data Food Consortum project, it would means that through that open shared API we could access info on hubs on various platforms and display them in a shared map.
But we could probably start also with more manual stuff, but it needs someone to really do a deep inception about how this map would work locally but at a global scale, how do we manage specificities of locals (like we have AMAP in France but other names abroad, or initiatives like Food Assemblies which are only in certain countries), do we have one single global map with shared filters or should be “localize” the filters and then how, etc. Design and UX. Then we need to know technocally how to do, ideally we would like to create profiles for all info we either enter manually or source through API from other plaforms / databases, but we need to maintain them up to date and this needs a whole thinking as well on which processes we set up.

But it could definitely be more decoupled from the current OFN app!

So if you know people who would like to join our community and carry on that project that would be really great :slight_smile: I know lots of networks in France who would be interested.

About @wvengen post this is exactly what Data Food Consortium is about :slight_smile: Food plaforms interoperability!

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