Here’s the progress for June 17 – July 29! ✨ What’s new Much of the work has been ensuring the upcoming release will go smoothly. Dan and Adie have been updating documentation, deleting old surveys and groups, and generally cleaning house! In addition, here’s other new stuff: Features Fixes We also scoped out work for […]
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Survey Stack Staging Updates 2
SurveyStack is going through some major updates over the next 2 months, funded through OpenTEAM over the last 8 months (thanks OpenTEAM!!!). We’ll have a blog post each week or two showing what’s new and what’s next, and this is the first one. NOTE — You won’t see these changes on surveystack.io yet! They are […]
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I already get it – take me to the conference page or heck just let me apply now! Wanting more info… Read on! Why another conference? Information about our food system should be public or easy-to-share. Unfortunately, that is often not the case. Food is currently produced by a mix of private and public entities, and information about […]
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Imagine if consumers and farmers could measure the nutrient density of fresh produce on farms and in stores in seconds. Consumers would demand nutrient-dense produce because they could see it empirically at the point of sale. Farmers would get a premium for more nutritious crops. Higher prices would motivate farmers to develop farming practices that […]
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In case you missed the last post, we are building a reflectometer. The goal is a simple to use, low cost, flexible device for a variety of measurements including tree canopy, soil carbon, and food nutrient density. If you’re curious about the development process, IRNAS produced a great post walking through the steps from understanding the application to […]
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“But wait,” you say, “there are already some out there, and they are pretty well designed and reasonably priced!” Well, yes – there are full spectrometers like the Spectruino ($411), the Open Source Colorometer ($80 + $20 per LED) from IORodeo, and publications from universities describing open colorometer designs (Appropedia and MTU have a good one, but there […]
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Farmers may not know about FOSS, but they know when they’re getting the short end of the stick. There’s lots of talk about big data and tech in agriculture… and it falls into two main camps – there’s the ‘machines replace farmers’ camp, ranging from automated tractors, to automated home gardening, to home food computers. These projects are interesting […]
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People-led research is a sleeping giant, and it might be waking up. At least, people have been working hard at waking it up. There are now collaboration platforms for everything including data collection, analysis, product design and development, image identification… the list goes on and on. Citizen Science projects are booming, and SciStarter is making them easier to find […]
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