I was observing the last 48 hours how people are gathering online to find different solution for this crisis in tunisia.
I am super overwhelmed by the dynamic and the engagement of people from different ages and backgrounds, working on social and #technicalchallenges! Nevertheless, I did also observe that a lot of groups are working on the same thing and redoing the same stuff. I think now, it is time maybe to canalize the efforts and avoid redundancy.
My #suggestion would be to create a platform, that facilitate the communication and the coordination of the different working groups. This platform would also serve to condensate the hacks and knowledge that you have been collecting in the last few days.[Amine Abdelmoula]
I guess that I can help by bringing to the community some experience from acting at the interface to science. Example: I noticed how difficult it is to understand āexponential growthā or making conclusions having only some observations of a highly dynamic and heterogenic process.
Here a map (the region where I live) that shows the spacial coverage at two levels of administrative entities (scroll map). The population between entities at the same level may vary by factor two but case numbers vary more. The structure of the public health system is the same. Hence, the differences in cases show differences in detecting them.
@yassine_el_metoui_84: I feel you, but it looks like some duplication of effort is inevitable at this stage. The ability of people to coordinate āunder fireā only goes that far.
@martin if you need maps, map ninja @piersoft has created the COVID-19 map of reference for Italy. It uses open data from our civil protection agency. 20 million visualizations as of yesterday! Among other goodies, it has a time slider, and keeps track of capacity saturation in intensive care wards. The spatial granularity depends of course on that of the underlying dataset, which in this case goes by province. If you need doing something similar in Germany, his code is open source, and he would certainly be happy to help (given open dataā¦). But you will need a fairly robust server!
@mstn is working with another Italian group, EmergenzeHack, that cut its teeth on the earthquakes a few years ago. They are building a simple app for home deliveries that smaller food shops (as opposed to supermarkets) could use. Discussion on GitHub (in Italian ā if you want to help and do not read Italian contact him or me).
Me, I have a small role in this, meant to be a non-big brotherish way to pool locational data in monitoring social distancing.
ok guys, we start by meeting and getting to know a bit about one another and do coordination through a weekly video chat. Join the next one to get started - let us know if you wish to join the next one here: Weekly Covid2019 Community Response Call - #2
As for structure: We have a community call tomorrow where we hammer this out together.we have a lot of pieces to patch together as you know after our call the other day
re: sending messages to everyone @matthias is better positioned to answer that. So far we have been very hesitant to do that kind of mass communication with the community, it feels uncertain if that is okā¦
Itās forwarded for everyone by default, though people could go in and change that later.
I think itās ok to do that once during the pandemic crisis. Combined with a message of solidarity, offering support etc. ā¦ if people love the message, itās not spam. But yes, like Nadia says, we generally donāt do this. But itās a catastrophe, so weāre all welcome now to break the rules if we know how to do that right
Ok then it makes sense to do it after we have structured the information collected and make it easy for people who want to contribute A, to do B in place C coordinated by people D. No?
For @martin re: maps and also FYI @mstn : @napo created a COVID-19 dashboard relative to one region, Trentino, with commune-level granularity data. If your area has this kind of data, you could implement it.
@johncoate: what I do is I send group private messages to those who are part of a specific part of
Iāve been trying with messages to 1-10 people at a time, Iām just not sure they get them - it doesnāt look like Iām getting a lot of responses, but it has to be said that these are the Polish and Czechs and Serbians, whose participation on the forum was happening in their own language with close support from co-nationals community managers. Letās see!
My feedback from the open call at this point: I think we should have a weekly open response call, but we also need one for just the team to clarify and condense things.
Apologies for the delayed response! We have the Mid-Term Review meetings for both POPREBEL and FATIGUE this week, so all my energy is going into that at the moment. Perhaps we could touch base about this COVID-19 initiative after our Thursday call?
