OpenFoodNetwork Project

The Project

According to the OpenFoodNetwork (OFN) site: "The Open Food Network is the flagship project of the Open Food Foundation is a non-profit, registered charity established in October 2012 to develop, accumulate and protect open source knowledge, code, applications and platforms for fair and sustainable food systems."

Evaluation Factors

Evaluation Factor	Level (0-2)	Evaluation Data
Licensing	2	The OpenfoodNework uses the AGPL 3.0.
Language	???	From the main GitHub page: the OpenFood Network uses mainly Ruby(66.4%), CoffeScript(14.8%), HTML(13.4%), and CSS(4.3%).
Level of Activity	2	There have been commits 50 out of the last 52 weeks
Number of Contributors	2	The OpenFoodNetwork has a large number of contributors (easily 20+), (also viewable by name here)
Product Size	2	The OFN has thousands of lines of code
Issue Tracker	2	The issue tracker has 500+ open and 800+ closed items. Multiple issues have been opened and responded to within the last week.
New Contributor	1.5	There are some instructions for new contributors to get involved {https://github.com/openfoodfoundation/openfoodnetwork/wiki here], but nothing too specific.
Community Norms	1	The OpenFoodnetwork has stated values here, and appears to adhere to them well enough in their bug tracker, etc.
User Base	2	The OFN is partnered with hundreds of food sellers
Total Score	14.5-16.5	The OpenFoodNetwork team appears very product-centric, and much of their thught and community is with and about users, not developers.