[LRUG] Open Food Network Hack Weekend - May 4-5 in London

[Lynne Davis OFN]

Hi LRUG Community!

Open Food Network <about.openfoodnetwork.org.uk> are thrilled to 
announce our first ever UK Hackathon 
<https://about.openfoodnetwork.org.uk/blog/uk-hack-weekend-may-4-5-london/>. 
Over the weekend of the 4th and 5th of May we’ll be nestling into 
Newspeak House <www.nwspk.com> to spend two days working on real issues 
for the global open source project. Together we hope to expand our 
exciting community, bring in new people that believe in what we do and 
share our experience in building a successful remote open source 
community. And of course we will share great food, laughs and fun!

*What is the Open Food Network?*
The Open Food Network (OFN) <about.openfoodnetwork.org.uk> is a global, 
open source collaboration building software for short and local supply 
chains. We want to make it easy for people to build vibrant and viable 
communities around the production and distribution of healthy, 
sustainable food. Our open source platform is used in a dozen countries 
by hundreds of food enterprises, selling millions of pounds of good food 
every year. Our global team is built of about 25 people around the 
world, working on product, dev, testing, UX and support. OFN is growing 
fast and are hoping to expand our community of passionate food tech 
enthusiasts.

*What to Expect*
Over the weekend we will:
- Work in teams to tackle issues that are affecting sustainable farmers 
and community food projects all over the world
- Build and share your skills. Our stack is built on Ruby, Rails, 
Postgres, AngularJS deployed with Ansible (Unicorn, NGINX).
- Learn from OFN developers, contributors and professionals
- Contribute to issues in different stages of our pipe process – from 
development to testing to release
- Work on problems that suit your skills and interests – design, UX, 
coding, APIs, testing
- Learn about our processes and systems, including *how to become a paid 
contributor* in the longer term.
- Meet an amazing group of like minded people working to use tech to 
make the world we want to live in
- Stickers and other (much more) exciting rewards for being involved and 
making contributions

More information and how to sign up 
<https://about.openfoodnetwork.org.uk/blog/uk-hack-weekend-may-4-5-london/>

/"We'd particularly like to invite female techies to the event. Most 
people involved in OFN are women. We really understand how intimidating 
events like this can be to women at all stages but particularly those 
who are starting out on their techie journey. Therefore we're 
deliberately creating a warm and friendly event and are aiming for an 
even gender mix. All levels, skills and abilities are welcome. If this 
is your first ever hackathon then we would love to welcome you with open 
arms!"/
Lynne Davis - Organiser and CEO of Open Food Network UK

*The Important Bits…*
Newspeak House.
Shoreditch London
4th to 5th of May – 10am to 6pm

We’ll provide lunch, snacks and drinks throughout the two days.
If you would like to attend but travel or accommodation costs are 
prohibitive please get in touch as we might be able to help.

More information and how to sign up 
<https://about.openfoodnetwork.org.uk/blog/uk-hack-weekend-may-4-5-london/>

Please do feel free to share with your networks! Even aretweet of this 
tweet 
<https://twitter.com/OpenFoodNetUK/status/1115169392176893952>would be 
very helpful!

Thanks so much everyone. Really hope to see you there!

Best wishes,

The Open Food Network UK team.

-- 
Connecting communities organising for food sovereignty
Open Food Network UK <www.openfoodnetwork.org.uk>
Find us on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/openfoodnetworkuk/>
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