At project Athena, volunteers join forces to fight the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Instead of plenty of individuals doing similar work over and over again, we focus our efforts to create real impact! We deliver actionable insights and built digital products that will bring SARS-CoV-2 down.
You can join us via Slack:
https://join.slack.com/t/projectathenaco/shared_invite/zt-cuthlqb8-NVXrCnmROwCMS55mOcEgvA
We are very thankful to Slack! Within minutes, they upgraded us to their standard plan for free!
Getting started - how to?
- for fast on-boarding, please read this!
- We are currently focusing our efforts on these hypotheses and products
- Read our latest news
We defeat the SARS-CoV-2 virus
We bring as many people as possible together to provide facts to the public and to support decision making on how to deal with the breakout in a highly coordinated and efficient way. Actionable insights may also lead to the fast development of products that help fight the virus.
- By April 10th of 2020, we will have delivered on at least 5 testable hypotheses
- By April 25th of 2020, we will have developed one minimum viable product to help fight the virus
- We provide public access to high quality and daily updated data sets
- We publicly share sound and validated knowledge and co-operate with other initiatives as much as we can
- We form a multi-disciplinary committee consisting of researchers and data professional that guides and coordinates research and infrastructure work
- We formulate hypotheses that multiple individuals or teams can work on in parallel
- We provide maximum transparency on how we derive testable, scientific hypotheses. Tasks can be picked up to work on testing the hypotheses.
- We encourage anybody to submit new hypotheses and to contribute to the project
- We are constantly adjusting our processes to foster the highest impact possible given our scarce resources as a non-profit project
- By 19th of March, we have the basic processes and tools in place to start the project
- By 20th of March we start recruiting people to join the project
- By 23th of March 2020, we provide at least five data sets to the public
- By 25th of March 2020, we have recruited the committee, made up of at least five researchers from various disciplines and data professionals
Everybody willing to contribute, please join our Slack workspace via the invite:
https://join.slack.com/t/projectathenaco/shared_invite/zt-cuthlqb8-NVXrCnmROwCMS55mOcEgvA
Before you join, please stick to the following Slack usage guidelines:
- We do not use Slack to store documents and data, Slack is our communication channel
- If there is something that is bothering you about Slack or our tooling, please refer to the improvements channel or discuss matters in relevant channels.
- We do not use Slack for documentation purposes, documentation is done on this website or other sites that we link.
- The "announcements" Slack channel is for announcements only. Announcements are done by the Athena committee. Discussions happen in more specific channels.
- There are two general channels for you to get guidance and help:
- questions_and_answers for any kind of information based on your questions
- improvements for suggestions and discussions around project Athena and how to improve it.
The kick-off page summarizes what we will do to get started.