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Open Food Facts - Google Summer of Code (GSOC) 2023
Open Food Facts is a non-profit open source and open data project with a massive impact on the food and health of millions of people across the world, and we need your help to make this impact even bigger in many more parts of the world!
-Open Food Facts was a participating organization for the Google Summer of Code 2022 and is planning to participate in 2023.
- +Open Food Facts was a participating organization for the Google Summer of Code.
+If you would like to work on Open Food Facts projects during the Google Summer of Code, make sure to join the Open Food Facts community on Slack, introduce yourself there and get familiar with the project.
+ +If you would like to work on Open Food Facts projects during the Google Summer of Code, make sure to join the Open Food Facts community on Slack, introduce yourself there and get familiar with the project.
A good way to do that is to open your fridge or cupboard to find a food item to scan with our Android or iOS application. Open Food Facts works like Wikipedia. The food product may already be in the database with its data completed. If it’s present, you will get valuable information about its nutritional quality (Nutri-Score) or its level of food processing (NOVA). If it’s not present yet, please take some pictures and add it!
Please note that there are likely to be more students applying than we will have places allocated by Google, so make sure you make your application is a good one. We are looking for:
-Claiming you have those characteristic is easy, but on our side the only way we can judge those is by the actual things you will accomplish during the bounding period. That's why this period is very important.
+The actual things you will accomplish during the bounding period are the best way to demostrate you meet those criteria.
+ +Open Food Facts is, first of all, a community. We try our best to be very welcoming and inclusive.
+Food is a very important topic to everybody on the planet and has a major impact on health and environment. We try to inform and help people make better choices everyday.
+Open Data is also precious as it enables many re-usages for various use cases (more than 200 other projects use it). It is a precious tool to researchers (500+ citations).
+Your contribution to this project will impact a lot of people.
+We want to make sure that new contributors are familiar with our development workflow and with the tools involved with it. Make at least some documentation and code contribution to an Open Food Facts project (preferribly related to the project you want to work on during GSoC) to demonstrate you can build the application from the source code, make changes to it, and submit a merge request in the project's GitHub repository.
+We want to make sure that new contributors are familiar with our development workflow and with the tools involved with it. Make at least some documentation and code contribution to an Open Food Facts project (preferably related to the project you want to work on during GSoC) to demonstrate you can build the application from the source code, make changes to it, and submit a merge request in the project's GitHub repository.
We are an Open Source project, and we want things to happen in the open, so prefer public channels to ask questions. On Slack, try to find the right channel to ask questions. Search if your question is not already answered somewhere before asking. The bounding period can be a bit exhausting for mentors, try to help them help you.
It's also an occasion for you to show your abilities to communicate, find answers, explore existing documentation and so on. As said above, contribution is one of the surest mean to prove your adequation to the program required skills.
Our mentors will put together a list of project ideas that you can choose. Project proposals are not strictly limited to the ones listed in this project ideas page. You can contact the main developers or any Open Food Facts project on a public channel, introduce yourself, and suggest your own project ideas. Base any ideas you propose on a small research about the needs of a projects and/or users and make sure there is interest from a mentor before basing your application on it. We do not have extensible forces so we will be forced to choose projects that are in line with project priorities.
+Our mentors will put together a list of project ideas that you can choose from. Project proposals are not strictly limited to the ones listed in this project ideas page. You can contact the main developers or any Open Food Facts project on a public channel, introduce yourself, and suggest your own project ideas. Base any ideas you propose on a small research about the needs of a projects and/or users and make sure there is interest from a mentor before basing your application on it. We do not have extensible forces so we will be forced to choose projects that are in line with project priorities.
Also notice you can submit more than one project, this might be a good idea if you think there are a lot of candidates on one of the project you submitted. As an organization we can't change students project, so if we have two good candidates on same project we can only choose one. By submitting more than one project, you may give us the opportunity to choose you on this second project.
Note we typically have few candidates on Perl projects while this is one of the top priority area for us.
-Once the application period has opened, you have to submit your application on the Google Summer of Code website. Your application must be written in English. It should contain a detailed description of your project proposal.
- -Copy our Google Document template and make sure you answer all of the questions.
- -Please be factual and clear in answering these questions. Feel free to add anything else that is relevant for your application. It is never too early to start working on your GSoC application! Note that GSoC positions are very competitive (with about 4 applicants for one position in the past) The key to creating a strong proposal is to propose a manageable and agreed-upon project, make a contribution to the module your proposal is related to, and write an application that clearly demonstrates your knowledge, skills, and enthusiasm.
The following things can help you select a project and prepare your idea:
Open Food Facts does many things like food products data acquisition and analysis on the backend, data visualization on the Open Food Facts website and mobile apps. This page presents the major systems and the technology we use, and the current challenges you could help us address during GSOC.
-You can get a full overview of our repositories on GitHub, along with hierarchized lists of impactful things you can work on. Here's our proposed selection of ideas:
-- -Note: The 2023 projects ideas are being listed by the various teams. -They will be migrated to the Wiki, with additional information being added on a rolling basis. You can also ask and discuss projects in Slack. +
Once the application period has opened, you have to submit your application on the Google Summer of Code website. Your application must be written in English. It should contain a detailed description of your project proposal.
+ +Copy our Google Document template and make sure you answer all of the questions.
+Please be factual and clear in answering these questions. Feel free to add anything else that is relevant to your application. It is never too early to start working on your GSoC application! Note that GSoC positions are very competitive (with about 4 applicants for one position in the past) The key to creating a strong proposal is to propose a manageable and agreed-upon project, make a contribution to the module your proposal is related to, and write an application that clearly demonstrates your knowledge, skills, and enthusiasm.
Some parts of this page have been adapted from the excellent GNOME GSOC page