Open Agriculture Food Computer

Description of the project: The Open Agriculture (Open Ag) community is building the Food Computer using Raspbian in the hardware and web-based tools for management. Students could potentially work on any part of the stack depending on their skills. Access to the hardware is not necessary for every aspect of this topic although if you have the possibility to access a Food Computer or build one in a local hackerspace or makerspace that may be helpful but to comply with GSoC expectations, students must spend the bulk of their time on the software-side of this project. As explained by Caleb Harper in the TED video, the project aims to apply principles from the open source movement to agriculture. The Debian project, as well as being the base for the food computer platform, has a long history of living the free software ethos and an important aspect of this project is to look at how Debian principles and practices could help solve problems in the development, deployment and use of food computers.