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Collection of initiatives to help each other in the COVID-19 crisis.

Contact: BECHA @ ripe.net or BECHA @ xs4all.nl / https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha

Feel free & invited to edit this page, it's a wiki.

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COVID-19 Topics

Hackathons

Events

April 2020

March 2020



NEW

  • UK: Hack the Quarantine https://hackquarantine.com
    • improving health, remote working and helping vulnerable populations
    • 23. March - 12. April
    • Platform: Discord 
One interesting concern is that there are many of these, and you could make an argument that they’d be stronger and faster in working together. Organizing that on global scale is probably impossible though (you’d need loads of marketing) — so I think local initiatives are wonderful!
I’d encourage us to do a bit of desk research & reach out to other teams to ‘steal’ their concepts (or contribute). → For example there are ventilator projects in the US, Finland, and Ireland, as I observed in my network. No shame in taking someone’s design and mass manufacturing it for your community.
Which is better in the current state? Spending three weeks developing a great, cheap ventilator design or spending three weeks 3D-printing and assembling 2000 pieces of a design made in New York?
I’d suggest whoever wants to help to either a) invest in organizing a complete project group well, or b) consider giving up your own idea and contribute what you do best to someone else!
Our goal is to share our knowledge to act fast, save lives, and limit economic fallout…. beyond inventing clever things! (Joe Pacal)


My contributions


  • Creatively Connecting Communities
    • I want to cross-link all of these separate hackathons!
    • Let's combine our strengths & work on this together!
    • I'm interested in OPEN communication & sharing of knowledge, data, ideas, results

hackathon-list@ripe.net & https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/hackathon-list/

Results


Masks

Ventilators

an ICU ventilator is a profoundly simple device. Here’s how it works: the patient is sedated enough to tolerate having a breathing tube secured in the trachea. The breathing tube connects to the ventilator by a hose. As the patient initiates a breath, the machine detects a slight drop in pressure, and a piston-driven cylinder pushes a measured volume of oxygen into the patient’s lungs. If the patient doesn’t or can’t start a breath, the machine will automatically do so after a few seconds. At some point, the machine either successfully delivers the required volume or reaches a maximum safe pressure and automatically cycles so that air can come back out of the patient’s lungs and through a separate hose. Pause. Repeat. Minute after minute, hour after hour. If necessary, for days.

Internet Measurements

Technical Communities Coordinations


Funding

Here are some calls with available funding:

& more (older offers) https://wiki.techinc.nl/MeshNet#Funding

Open Communication Platforms

  • wiki... like this one!!
fairchat.net messenger for web and as app (Slack & WhatsApp replacement)
fairmeeting video or audio conference (Skype replacement)
board.net joint editing pad
faircloud (like Dropbox)
syncing of files, calendar and address book
online editor (like in Office 365 / Google Docs)
manage group permissions in circles
Image gallery
2FA (Two-Factor-Authentication) possible
forward secrecy encryption DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
GDPR compliant

DataViz


Articles with visualizations

  • Which country has flattened the curve / Where Countries Are on the Curve

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/19/world/coronavirus-flatten-the-curve-countries.html

Tips

General Tips

  • Stay the F*** Home: <a href="https://staythefuckhome.com/sfw/">(SFW version)</a> Translated in many languages!!! 
  • Rop et.al. <a href="https://covid-at-home.info/help">https://covid-at-home.info/help</a> 
  • Viola from ETH Zurich on the <a href="https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2020/03/zukunftsblog-viola-vogel-reducing-the-risk-of-infection.html">throat health</a>
  • How to keep distance (in Dutch) (<a href="https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2020/03/16/wat-betekent-afstand-houden-vanwege-het-coronavirus">government page</a>) 
  • <a href="https://www.declercq.com/kennisblog/flexwerkers-en-corona/">Legal</a> advice for workers (in Dutch) & another <a href="https://www.juridischloket.nl/actueel/coronavirus/">legal</a> page 

    • Mental Health

    Physical Health

    Covid-19-Flu-Cold-Symptoms-v4-e1585729088804.jpg

    Community Care

    Working From Home

  • GitHub guide https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/guide/
  • Tech-Ladies Work From Home (WFH) Recommendations
  • How to optimise WFH space article
  • Alice Goldfuss on work in the time of corona


    • Or not: 

    & https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#Working_Less

    Corona & Climate

    Art

    Politics

    ... & philosophy & economy & ecology & feminism & tech & anti-capitalism & anarchism ...

    Four-quadrants.jpg


    Labor is now  more crucial than capital to beat the virus, however individual                                          
workers are expendable. This has to change and the precariat is                                          
rising, from amazon warehouses to instacart supermarkets, from                                           
deliveroo to wal-mart. Precarious workers now have the power although                                    
they are exposed to so many more risks in comparison to white-collar                                     
teleworkers. Health, sanitation, cleaning, retail, delivery, food                                        
workers are the ones we depend on to survive during the monadic                                          
lockdown. No work must be perfomed without protection. Since capital                                     
is callous, the ultimate form of social distancing is the general                                        
strike. Labor must strike to protect society from business. Precarious    
                              people are owed total health coverage, universal social transfers,                                       
hazard and sick pay, protection from anti-union dismissals (see staten                           
       island) but especially a doubling of the wage that reflects their                                        
social value. Bankers and CEOs have never been more useless, it's the                             
      bodies and minds of health temps and gig workers who are saving our asses.
    • Zondag Met Lubach! -> FlitsTraders !
    • OMG financial times turns socialist!!!

    https://www.ft.com/content/7eff769a-74dd-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca 

    Radical reforms — reversing the prevailing policy direction of the last four decades — will need to be put on the table. Governments will have to accept a more active role in the economy. They must see public services as investments rather than liabilities, and look for ways to make labour markets less insecure. Redistribution will again be on the agenda; the privileges of the elderly and wealthy in question. Policies until recently considered eccentric, such as basic income and wealth taxes, will have to be in the mix.”

    Anarchism

    Collection 1: https://becha.home.xs4all.nl/Anarchist-Analysis-of-Corona-Crisis-Spring-2020.pdf

    (& links dump, to be sorted later)

    http://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/coronavirus-and-philosophers/ From: https://north-shore.info/2020/03/20/ask-a-diffferent-question-reclaiming-autonomy-of-action-during-the-virus/ Original: https://nantes.indymedia.org/articles/49289 From: https://www.vrijebond.org/solidarity-doesnt-go-into-quarantine/ Original: https://www.umanitanova.org/?p=11724 & more: https://crimethinc.com/2020/03/12/against-the-coronavirus-and-the-opportunism-of-the-state-anarchists-in-ital$ https://www.umanitanova.org/?p=11756 From: http://autonomies.org/2020/03/the-coronavirus-as-a-declaration-of-war/ Original: https://www.elcritic.cat/opinio/santiago-lopez-petit/el-coronavirus-com-a-declaracio-de-guerra-52417 https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/mike-davis-coronavirus-outbreak-capitalism-left-international-solidarity https://www.cadtm.org/The-Capitalist-Pandemic-Coronavirus-and-the-Economic-Crisis & https://www.cadtm.org/No-the-coronavirus-is-not-responsible-for-the-fall-of-stock-prices http://autonomies.org/2020/03/the-corona-virus-politics-in-times-of-catastrophe-9/ https://lundi.am/Des-chauve-souris-et-des-hommes-politiques-epidemiques-et-coronavirus http://www.zones-sensibles.org/frederic-keck-les-sentinelles-des-pandemies/ From: http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article6454 From: http://links.org.au/coronavirus-pandemic-eight-theses-covid-19 Original: https://www.gaucheanticapitaliste.org/huit-theses-sur-le-coronavirus/ http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article6457 https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-2003/msg00067.html https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-interview-larry-brilliant-smallpox-epidemiologist/ http://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/coronavirus-and-philosophers/ https://eand.co/the-upsides-of-a-global-pandemic-4dbb00be4a03 https://eand.co/what-happens-after-capitalism-c990c111273d https://cbmilstein.wordpress.com/2020/03/13/collective-care-is-our-best-weapon-against-covid-19/ & https://covidmutualaid.org/local-groups/ https://www.ianalanpaul.com/the-corona-reboot/ @davidgraeber: on bullshit jobs https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/ & https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullshit-jobs.pdf https://abeautifulresistance.org/site/2017/8/17/white-privilege-in-dutch-anarchism https://kwanj.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/freire-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed.pdf Down to earth: go work on the farm! https://www.farminguk.com/news/call-for-brits-to-pick-fruit-and-veg-amid-corona$ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed 

    Collection 2

    Possibilities in a time of epistemic and institutional crisis / jahed momand / Mar 27

      • Tip: Decentralized, Privacy-Preserving, Contact Tracing Without Central Authorities
      • Decentralized, Evidence-Based Community Health Guidelines that Actually Work™ https://www.endcoronavirus.org/page/faq
      • 3-D Printing Face Shields, Face Masks, and Sterilizable Stethoscopes: Expanding 3-D Printing Infrastructure to Those Most in Need
    Solidarity is not charity. It is the recognition that the struggle of one is the struggle of all.

    Mutual Aid

    if people really believed they could participate meaningfully in a mass campaign to care for others and pressure public officials to adopt humane emergency policies, we can be confident that hundreds of thousands would quickly join in.

    [historically], it was crucial that participants had a sense that they were part of something larger than the sum of individual efforts. Intentional moves toward unity and coordination help build that collective understanding.

    mutual aid, a common story, strategy and structure can allow a mass movement to legitimate political demands that might otherwise be deemed impractical or undesirable, and to compel public officials to adopt them (?) .

    ideas like emergency universal basic income, free testing and treatment for all, and suspension of rent and mortgage payments for those unable to pay during the crisis. (FOR ALL!) 

    But true resilience cannot be achieved alone. Disaster resilience is built on community care and mutual aid.

    “Disasters are, most basically, terrible, tragic, grievous, and no matter what positive side effects and possibilities they produce, they are not to be desired … . But disaster doesn’t sort us out by preferences; it drags us into emergencies that require we act, and act altruistically, and bravely.” — Rebecca Solnit, “A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster”

    Female Voices

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