@CynthiaReynolds, I don’t know who is following that email! @Kirsten I am still willing to be a contact person though the summer is running out, which is the time I was supposedly going to have more time to contribute. I’m not sure I’m the best person but if I’m the person we’ve got, I’ll try to get it together. @MyriamBoure and @NickWeir and I should have a conversation about this unless there’s a resource on being the point/community connector I could read up on…
Overall, this is exciting progress y’all! Having the email set up might be nice but a few admins to approve people should get us moving.
Welcome to the madness, @KatTheFarmer and @shelby! I’m really excited to have you in the conversation!
@eric, it has just been set up, now we just need someone to be responsible for monitoring it I imagine that having more than one person might help, and potentially having an auto-response (something like this ) so that people get some feedback before a personalised response gets around to being sent.
Logging first contacts on the Global contact spreadsheet is a good way to make sure that duplicate emails are avoided.
This is just an idea, but if there are several new users (ie farms, food hubs, food delivery programs, other kinds of food aggregators, shops…) that are thinking of starting on the US OFN platform once the technical bits are all sorted, I’d be interested in co-hosting a North America hangout to walk through an introduction to onboarding and getting started. I have several new food hubs here in Canada and they are interested in this process too. It could be efficient to do an onboariding hangout or skype call. The catch is that, for me, it would have to wait until after Sept 8. But my experience is that it is a really good thing for a ‘user’ (hub, delivery program, farm… ) to play around on their own first anyway so they have some basic ideas and questions.
@KatTheFarmer i followed up your Wallace Centre suggestion here. No reply yet. May be better if someone in the USA contacted Jeff Farbman at JFarbman@winrock.org
From: Nick Weir [mailto:niir.co.uk]
Sent: 21 August 2017 09:33
To: Farbman, Jeff JFarbman@winrock.org
Cc: Cynthia Reynolds (cynth*.com); Theresa Schumilas (tsch*********il.com)
Subject: Open Food Network USA
Hi Jeff
I enjoyed speaking to you several years ago about food hubs and the international roll out of the Open Food Network.
I am very pleased to be able to tell you that there is now a public instance of OFN in the early stages of set up. Link here. We are looking for a public body which could take over the hosting of this instance and wondered if the Wallace Centre might be interested or know of any other potential organisations?
HI all,
Hoping to set up a store on the USA page.
It has somehow blocked me out, saying that i have too many profiles. How Do I work around this?
Feeling more frustrated every day with our current sales platform and motivated to make the switch. Let me know what I can do to kickstart this. Ready to load my items into the store.
Hi @KatTheFarmer great to see you here ! Today when you register by default you can only create one entreprise, so an admin needs to rise this threshold. I guess @CynthiaReynolds you have access to do it ?
have fixed this for you Kat - you can now create up to 100
have you received an email enabling you to confirm your email for the first enterprise you created though? If not, I think there are still some problems with the setup and I would tend to advise against creating too many products in case data gets lost in the process of getting everything working properly.
I have just emailed @jveilleux to check on whether they are going to fix things or to get access to try and get someone else to do so.
Sorry for the delay - I’ll be as happy as anyone when there is finally a USA OFN up and running!!
My apologies folks. I didn’t see anything to remind me to check this thread.
Anyway - I’ve asked Rahul Nagare, my network admin - to make the changes requested. I don’t think it will take very long.
Feel free to email me any time if I am being unresponsive. I’m at jveilleux@virtuallogger.com. And also on skype as jveilleux (Charlotte or Asheville, NC, not sure which).
I remember we had an issue with the email server as well. Not sure how that got straightened out. I’ll alert him, but feel free to email him. I’m the only one in my company that checks the discourse site and I’m pretty sporadic at it.
I’ve just gone through this thread and see two issues for my team to address. Can you confirm:
email setup
Ports per quote below.
anything else?
Here’s the email I sent to my network manager:
Rahul -
I’ve gone through the thread a bit and can you look at these specific issues:
Email: How did we fix before? Do we need to get Ravi involved?
Post assignment: see quote below.
"If you point a domain like openfoodnetwork.net to the IP 52.3.171.208, then you can access the current version at http://openfoodnetwork.net:3000/, but to omit the 3000, it has to be on the default port of 80. But even then, it can’t be a production site with payments. To be secure, it needs https instead of http. And that is on another port again. Anyway, the proper server setup has to configure a web server (nginx) to serve the OFN application via https. Then we can use https://openfoodnetwork.net/.
thx @MyriamBoure for the mention to draw some attention indeed @ecocity nice ideas for decoupling ui and other elements. I think it would be nice also to have the technical prototypes and discussions shared in https://github.com/datafoodconsortium where we discuss syntactic, semantic and pragmatic interoperability and possible implementations but I didn’t do much for the past months I hope I find the time to be more active there soon
I imagine that having more than one person might help, and potentially having an auto-response (something like 
I hope I find the time to be more active there soon