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Principles
We put on our thinking brains and came up with some
DESIGN PRINCIPLES and
COMMUNITY PRINCIPLES to guide our work. Chime in to let us know if they fit your vision of open sourcing agriculture.
Web Development
We're actively working to improve the platform. This fall, we've started to use some new tools to do that. We're using HackPads for collaborative workspaces, Trello for kanban boards/project management, and every week, we're holding
organizer's calls. The goal is to hold a weekly space for community members to share their work and contribute regularly. Once a month, these calls are web-focused, a mini-monthly-hackathon to keep the momentum moving on the site.
There are lots of things that we can make better that we're aware of and probably also lots that we're not. If you see something that could work better for the Farm Hack community, please let us know @
farmhackopen@gmail.com. We also welcome you to join in the calls just to see what's going on and how you might contribute--they're
every week on Thursdays @ 7:00 pm eastern.
We're looking for drupal developers to help fix up the user experience on the site and add some back end functionality as well! If you're interested in joining an organizers call or helping out with code, content management, or blogging, email our new Network Facilitator,
Daniel Grover.
We're working to build out the
Open Shops concept and functionality as part of our Farm Hack 2.0 development. These shops will serve as a collaboratively built and held work space to encourage the kinds of overlap that make a community like ours thrive. It's a work in progress, and one that we're excited to keep improving.
Events/talks
Farm Hack is busy this fall seeding the open source agriculture idea far and wide. Please come join us at one of the upcoming events. In case you missed these talks on Open Source agriculture from Dorn and Mike, check them out and share widely:
Dorn @ NOFA VT 2014
Mike @ NOFA CT
We're helping organize a Farm Hack event in California early this December. To get an idea of what's going on Farm Hack-wise out in Mendocino County, listen to
Severine's Greenhorns Radio interview with Ruthie King of the Grange Farm School and organizer of the Mendocino event. See you there!
We hosted our first
Open Hour at the beginning of September. Open Hours are modeled after a virtual meeting that our open source friends,
Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science organize regularly. Longtime Farm Hack community member, RJ Steinert, presented on the progress that's been being made on Fido, an open-hardware based greenhouse monitoring and alert system. In case you missed it, check out the recorded video
here. We'll have more Open Hours upcoming so keep an eye out on the blog for those.
Farm Hack @ Internet Festival in Pisa and Open Food Collaboration!
This past week, Daniel has been representing Farm Hack in Italy. At the invitation of
Rural Hub, an emerging rural research and action group, sharing ideas of open source agriculture at the
#openfoodacademy of
Internet Festival, Pisa and talking about global open food collaborations with the Australian
Open Food Network, and the
Open Source Beehives project out of Denver!
Thank you for being a part of the community , we farm better together than alone
Farm Hack Team:
Dorn Cox, Board President
Louis Thiery, Board Treasurer
Severine vt Fleming, Board Secretary
BR Shute, Dan Paluska, RJ Steinert, Rob Rock, Chris Yoder, Andy Wekin, Board
and Daniel Grover, Network Facilitator
