Installing Open Food Network online marketplace for local food on Ubuntu Linux

OFN Homepage

The Open Food Network is an online marketplace for local food. It enables a network of independent online food stores that connect farmers and food hubs (including coops, online farmers’ markets, independent food businesses etc); with individuals and local businesses. It gives farmers and food hubs an easier and fairer way to distribute their food. … Read more

Draft Internet of things (IoT) policy of Government of India – Agriculture Highlights

Agriculture IoT

To leverage India’s strength as a leader in the global service industry, through suitable promotion and supportive mechanisms the draft IoT policy has been formulated to create IoT ecosystem in India. 5.1.6 SMART AGRICULTURE i. To setup project for precision farming which uses data analysis to customize operations.The project may include monitoring of soil moisture, … Read more

Organizations working for opensource in agriculture and allied sector

OFN

Open Food Network Founded in Australia, the Open Food Network started as a little experiment with a van, some farmers and some friends. Since then it has grown to become an open source platform collaboratively nurtured by like-minded people around the world. The Open Food Network is the flagship project of the Open Food Foundation … Read more

Installing FarmOS on Linux/Ubuntu Desktop

farmos

The below steps describes, how to install the farmos on the Linux Ubuntu Desktop. 1. Download the source from github as, $ git clone https://github.com/farmier/farm.git farmos-github 2. now use drush to download entire source, as $ cd farmos-github $ drush make build-farm.make farmos Note : you may need to install “drush” as “sudo apt-get install drush” 3. … Read more