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Hi LRUG Community!<br>
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<p><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="about.openfoodnetwork.org.uk">Open
Food Network</a> are thrilled to announce our first ever <a
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href="https://about.openfoodnetwork.org.uk/blog/uk-hack-weekend-may-4-5-london/">UK
Hackathon</a>. Over the weekend of the 4th and 5th of May
we’ll be nestling into <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="www.nwspk.com">Newspeak House</a> 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!<br>
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<b>What is the Open Food Network?</b><br>
The <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="about.openfoodnetwork.org.uk">Open Food Network (OFN)</a>
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.<br>
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<b>What to Expect</b><br>
Over the weekend we will:<br>
- Work in teams to tackle issues that are affecting sustainable
farmers and community food projects all over the world<br>
- Build and share your skills. Our stack is built on Ruby,
Rails, Postgres, AngularJS deployed with Ansible (Unicorn,
NGINX).<br>
- Learn from OFN developers, contributors and professionals<br>
- Contribute to issues in different stages of our pipe process –
from development to testing to release<br>
- Work on problems that suit your skills and interests – design,
UX, coding, APIs, testing<br>
- Learn about our processes and systems, including <b>how to
become a paid contributor</b> in the longer term.<br>
- Meet an amazing group of like minded people working to use
tech to make the world we want to live in<br>
- Stickers and other (much more) exciting rewards for being
involved and making contributions</p>
<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://about.openfoodnetwork.org.uk/blog/uk-hack-weekend-may-4-5-london/">More
information and how to sign up</a><br>
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<p><i>"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!"</i><br>
Lynne Davis - Organiser and CEO of Open Food Network UK<br>
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<p><b>The Important Bits…</b><br>
Newspeak House.<br>
Shoreditch London<br>
4th to 5th of May – 10am to 6pm<br>
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We’ll provide lunch, snacks and drinks throughout the two days.<br>
If you would like to attend but travel or accommodation costs
are prohibitive please get in touch as we might be able to help.</p>
<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://about.openfoodnetwork.org.uk/blog/uk-hack-weekend-may-4-5-london/">More
information and how to sign up</a></p>
<p>Please do feel free to share with your networks! Even a<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://twitter.com/OpenFoodNetUK/status/1115169392176893952">
retweet of this tweet </a>would be very helpful!</p>
<p>Thanks so much everyone. Really hope to see you there!</p>
<p>Best wishes,</p>
<p>The Open Food Network UK team.<br>
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Connecting communities organising for food sovereignty<br>
<a href="www.openfoodnetwork.org.uk" moz-do-not-send="true">Open
Food Network UK</a><br>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/openfoodnetworkuk/"
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