jesparent/COVID-19-Volunteer-Ops-STEM

A collection of resources about COVID-19 Volunteer Opportunities, particualrly for those w STEM background.

COVID-19-Volunteer-Ops-STEM

A collection of resources about COVID-19 Volunteer Opportunities (or other quarantine-time options), particualrly for those w STEM background.

• A HUGE database of opportunities: https://covid19sci.org/ and http://united-against-covid.org/

Quick Updates

• Make a mask yourself at home: https://makermask.org/

• @mozilla gives awards of up to $50,000 each to open source technology projects for the COVID-19 pandemic https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/03/31/moss-launches-covid-19-solutions-fund/

• Crowdsourcing Violence & Respones as aresult of COVID-19 via PeaceTech labs

  • Info: https://www.peacetechlab.org/the-peacetech-toolbox
  • Submission link: Google Form

• Opportunity to donate your spare computing power to address COVID-19:

  • https://foldingathome.org/covid19/ Donate computing power: Downloading Folding@home and helping us run simulations is the primary way to contribute. These calculations are enormous and every little bit helps! Each simulation you run is like buying a lottery ticket. The more tickets we buy, the better our chances of hitting the jackpot. Usually, your computer will never be idle, but we’ve had such an enthusiastic response to our COVID-19 work that you will see some intermittent downtime as we sprint to setup more simulations. Please be patient with us! There is a lot of valuable science to be done, and we’re getting it running as quickly as we can.
  • https://boinc.bakerlab.org/ Rosetta / Boinc (similar to above)

3D Printing

• US Gov Database: https://3dprint.nih.gov/collections/covid-19-response
• If you have 3DP experience, many universities or printer-holding locations are having their own initiatives. Reach out to them or consider offering them supplies.
• University at Albany SUNY: PPE & 3D Printing
  • Location Based: Albany, NY
  • See this email image for preliminary info.
  • Contact me for details if you are local and need access to this email and other updates.

AI Applications & Data

• "Mapping the Landscape of Artificial Intelligence Applications Against COVID-19" Bullock et al. PDF on Google Doc

• Help wanted with COVID19 proliferation model. Source: Nat Friedman

  • Repo: https://github.com/neherlab/covid19_scenarios/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22help+wanted%22
  • Simulation: https://neherlab.org/covid19/
  • Call for Data & Data Curators: neherlab/covid19_scenarios#69

• KAGGLE data sets & data science challenges

  • https://www.kaggle.com/allen-institute-for-ai/CORD-19-research-challenge

• Stanford Human-Centered AI: Covid-19 and AI: A Virtual Conference (videos available)

Cybersecurity & Infosec

• CYBER19 (Cybersecurity) https://cyberv19.org.uk/. See More Info (Forbes Feature)

Web Development

• ICLR 2020: Eighth International Conference on Learning Representation https://iclr.cc/

Looking for a community volunteer to help with web dev for Virtual ICLR. Pretty fun, collaborative, and indoor project to help develop and support remote tools. Send me an email or dm with example work on GitHub.

— Sasha Rush (@srush_nlp) March 27, 2020

Other information

Suggested Readings

• The Atlantic: "The Crisis Could Last 18 Months. Be Prepared.