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Open Ag Tech Collective

Also known as: GOAT, Gathering for Open Ag Tech, Gathering for Open Agricultural Technology

A loose international community of developers, farmers, researchers, and organizations working on open-source agricultural technology. Convenes through a recurring conference (the *Gathering for Open Ag Tech*, held annually since 2018), an active online community, and shared infrastructure for open-source ag projects. Member organizations include FarmOS, Farm Hack, OpenTEAM, the Surveilance Stack project, OurSci, and many academic agricultural research groups. The collective is the principal coordinating space where open-source farming software, hardware, and data standards are discussed and aligned across organizations.

What it is

The Open Ag Tech Collective (often called GOAT — Gathering for Open Ag Tech) is the principal coordinating space for open-source agricultural technology projects in North America and increasingly internationally. It is not a single organization but a community-of-communities — running:

  • The Gathering for Open Ag Tech — annual conference rotating across host institutions
  • Online community — Slack/Discord workspaces, mailing lists, shared documentation
  • Cross-project standards work — data interoperability, file formats, API conventions
  • Mutual support — small projects supporting smaller ones with infrastructure, hosting, code review

Member projects and organizations

A non-exhaustive list of projects represented:

  • FarmOS — farm management software
  • [[farm-hack|Farm Hack]] — community-driven tool designs
  • OpenTEAM — Technology Ecosystem for Agricultural Management; soil-health data standards
  • Our-Sci — open scientific instrumentation, including Bionutrient Food Association measurement protocols
  • PASA, NOFA, regional sustainable-agriculture organizations — for outreach and grounding
  • Land-grant university researchers — the academic side
  • Independent farmers and developers — the practitioner side

Why it matters

Open-source agricultural technology is fragmented across many small projects with overlapping goals and incompatible data formats. The Open Ag Tech Collective is the meta-layer where those projects coordinate enough to compose into working stacks farmers can adopt. Without that coordination, each open-source ag project would be an island; with it, the open-source farm stack starts to feel like infrastructure.

See also

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  • Shares approach with: [[farmos]] · [[farm-hack]]
  • Member of: [[organization]]

Sources

  • goatech.org and gathering-for-open-ag-tech archives
  • OpenTEAM and OurSci documentation

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