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About MutualAid
We hope folks are staying safe and sane in the midst of this crisis. We’re so grateful to all the talented, passionate people who have jumped into this project with us. We are all volunteers with an interest in helping others, and this is an open-source initiative. Our hope is the project can be largely non-hierarchical and self-managing. For those who aren’t used to it, this kind of grassroots crisis-response project can feel a bit chaotic, so we want to make sure folks have a few key points of contact that understand the plan and can help coordinate the work across different areas. They form a bridge between and within different teams and help ensure we stay on course. To this end, we have organized into a few workstreams, with a few key folks within each. If we’ve missed your name from a key role you are already playing below, we sincerely apologize. Things have been moving fast and it’s hard to get a consistent view all in one place. That said please don’t hesitate to let us know so we can fix it for next time! You are all valued.
Goal: To build a compelling app for local resilience. We are building a strong feedback loop from on-the-ground community organizers and UX/design teams in order to fully capture and prioritize user stories for our app. In the meantime we’re getting stuck in, building our version 2 app based on what we already know. We want to architect and develop a scalable product to meet the needs of local communities in the short, medium, and post-pandemic long-term. This is a multi-team effort involving copywriting, design/UX, front/back-end development, and data science.
Point people:
@Erika_Margaret, @Tuan, @Ruchi Jain, @Terrence, @Miles
Channels: #resilience-app (we’re trying to merge #frontend and #ui-ux into this channel)
Goal: Connect with community organizers to learn how they engage with their communities, and discover how best to develop tech that immediately responds to their needs. We also aim to develop and launch solutions via rapid iteration building with known tech to solve the immediate needs of community groups. This team is small and cross-functional and works with core leadership to engage directly with community organizers in order to facilitate a rapid development path, so we can solve the most pressing problems as well as begin capturing user feedback now.
Point people:
@Carlos Olivieri @Simon Mont, @Linc, @Sahil Handa
Channels: #community_users #mutual-aid-world
SafeTraceAPI is about privacy-enabled contact tracing. We’re trying to build a real-world app as fast as possible but we’re focused on building an API that preserves privacy and can be integrated with other contact tracing apps. SafeTraceAPI is also working on some next level cryptography using multiparty computation and other techniques to strongly preserve the privacy of you or your organization's data while still being able to use it to calculate things like contact tracing in a ‘shared computation’ with other parties. Some interesting white papers and great code are the outputs here.
Point People:
@Andres Gomez @Seha Islam, @Ari Rodriguez
Channels: #safetrace-api
The data science folks are across both projects, really. Either doing analysis of data as it comes in or solving specific problems that people are having (like providing a traveling salesman algorithm for mission assignments).
Point People: @Dean Thoms, @leweyg
Channels: #datascience
(Helping where needed)
Legal - @Eric Naples
Project Management Overview - @Josh Kruzich
Legal and Community - @Simon Mont
Outreach and Partnerships - @Linc
These teams will be changing rapidly, and new roles opening up as teams expand and people find the right work that they need to do. There will, of course, be more than enough opportunities for everyone who wants to contribute fully. We’d love to have you - yes that means you - to play a bigger role over time and will definitely be recognizing people's contributions carefully and fully over time.