Hi Craige (and others)<br><br>First up I'm a big fan of Appropedia . . couple of key differences though:<br><ul><li>Open Food Web Foundation could be considered more equivalent to the Wikimedia Foundation - in that it supports the development of software that enable people to do their thing. In Wikimedia's case to run wikis, and in our case (initially focus on) running their own food trading and distribution networks</li>
<li>Appropedia is built using a wiki, focused on open sharing of appropriate technologies (yay) some of which are related to food (e.g. food portal). OFWF and Appropedia will be quite likely to cross-reference each other, but the focus is quite different in that Appropedia is in no way designed to actively support FOSS development communities around key software needs for food system change<br>
</li><li>OFWF could certainly endorse and could potentially point to Appropedia food portal as an example of open knowledge for food systems. Good point and we can discuss this with Chris next time we see him around :)<br>
</li></ul>Cheers<br>Kirsten<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 April 2013 11:37, Craige McWhirter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:craige@mcwhirter.com.au" target="_blank">craige@mcwhirter.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="im">On 8 April 2013 21:52, Kirsten Larsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kirsten@eaterprises.com.au" target="_blank">kirsten@eaterprises.com.au</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote">As a new member of Linux Australia, I firstly say hello :)<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>
</div><div>Welcome Kirsten!</div><div class="im"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote">More information is in the attached document, but in summary we are an Australian non-profit, established in October 2012 with the express aim to develop, accumulate and protect open source knowledge, code, applications and platforms for fair and sustainable food systems.<br>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Great idea. I was wondering though how the Open Food Web Foundation's work differentiates itself <a href="http://www.appropedia.org/" target="_blank">Appropedia</a>? Particularly their <a href="http://www.appropedia.org/Portal:Food_and_agriculture" target="_blank">food portal</a>.</div>
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