Where can people volunteer with tech skills? Is there a demand for it?

erikbye · on April 3, 2020

While not what you meant, if people with coding skills have free time, it is greatly appreciated if they contribute to open source projects that are widely used. A lot of OSS are critical components in many systems we rely on daily, your contributions can have more value than you can even imagine.

It would be great if all devs could keep this in mind, but especially the ones that are about to get some time off (if life does not get too stressful for you).

goodcanadian · on April 3, 2020

https://crowdfightcovid19.org/

This is aimed at scientists, but my wife is on the list and tells me that they are looking for UX designers and software developers.

Delk · on April 3, 2020

Any idea what kinds of software development skills they're looking for?

I guess if they're also looking for UX designers, they aren't looking for just data analysis code?

goodcanadian · on April 3, 2020

I don't have much information. I was told frontend and backend.

Edit: given the subject matter, I imagine there is demand for data analysis expertise, but that is my own speculation.

zigzaggy · on April 3, 2020

New York has a tech response team that you can volunteer with to help out: https://www.ny.gov/programs/new-york-state-covid-19-technolo...

See HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22723098

vitorbaptistaa · on April 3, 2020

Also, for data-related tasks, there's the DataKind group. Their UK chapter is very active: https://www.datakind.org/chapters/datakind-uk

typest · on April 3, 2020

helpwithcovid.com. I believe there is quite a bit of demand on some of these projects.