CoronavirusArmy.org is a grassroots volunteer initiative that started March 15th. Our goal is to stem the tide of infections and save lives. We’re all volunteers. You can enlist at coronavirusarmy.org.

CoronavirusArmy had a video conference today at 1pm PST.

My apologies to all who tried to join the call but weren’t able to join. We hit the attendance limit for Google Hangouts, so people weren’t able to join. Future meetings will use Zoom instead.

Hitting the attendance limit on Google Hangouts

Below are a few notes from the call:

65 people have enlisted so far!

We discussed creating a platform for finding safe self-isolation space. This is critical for essential workers (i.e. doctors and other front-line medical workers, grocery store workers, etc). They need to be able to find space where they can isolate themselves from their elderly or otherwise at-risk family members, to avoid accidentally infecting their families. An empty repo has been started for this project at https://github.com/CoronavirusArmy/Nest

This is critical for essential workers (i.e. doctors and other front-line medical workers, grocery store workers, etc). They need to be able to find space where they can isolate themselves from their elderly or otherwise at-risk family members, to avoid accidentally infecting their families. An empty repo has been started for this project at https://github.com/CoronavirusArmy/Nest Ties suggested that we create a Github organization. Zach created one and added a few people from the call. https://github.com/CoronavirusArmy/

We now have a Telegram group for volunteers: https://t.me/coronavirusarmy

https://t.me/coronavirusarmy We will keep daily standup calls short; under 30 minutes.

Current needs:

We need someone to step-up as lead-dev for the “Nest” web app (see above). Join the telegram group and ping @zachdoty if you want to be added to the repo so you can contribute.

Need more help from UI / UX designers and usability testers for the Nest app.

Need someone to take-on full responsibility onboarding new volunteers and making sure they are able to successfully integrate into existing teams, projects, etc.

We need a volunteer manager/coordinator. Someone who is a good people-manager. Someone who can make sure every volunteer has a ‘role’ and understands their role and how they fit into the team.

Notes from specific attendees:

Rio — works with non-profit National Urban Indian Family Coalition, full time from home, lots of availability to work on stuff.

Ties — Seattle, UW: teaches accounting, business, python, data science, statistics, web-dev

Zach A — Has an idea to build an app to help undocumented families

Zach Doty: Just finished adding signup/login/user-accounts to coronavirusarmy.org. Will add a page coronavirusarmy.org later today listing volunteers; to be expanded into a leaderboard later. Will start work on prototyping the “Nest” web app in Figma

Brian Kim: works in the nonprofit community development industry

Deanna: Los Angeles, full stack web development, android dev,

Diane: student in San Diego, studying biology; CS background, mobile /android/ios dev. Unsure time availability. Has been calling representatives requesting shut down.

Elizabeth: writer and dental hygienist. Mic not working.

Jenny: Life sciences and microbiology lab tech, works at community college level labs, interested in organizing “boots on the ground”. Emailed the first 30 applicants with Telegram link. Helped draft the daily update blog post today.

Mark: Lives in SF, sheltering in place, WFH, full stack dev, backend api dev

A big shout-out to all the volunteers who have enlisted so far:

Jenifer Colton

Zachary Adkins

Misty Crick-Goodman

Anna

Aleece

Allie Johnson

Megan Broga

Zach Goulson

Catherine

Cassandra Gamble

Alex

Shannon Harder

Erin Spence

Erika Moya

Brenna

Tracy Nguyen

Julia Barnett

Megan

Acecy Buensuceso

David Leech

Sonya Wolfram

Ties de Kok

Alex Rousso

Kenz Shane

Lexi Docherty

adria chiu

Elsie Bauer

Elizabeth

Francesca Paris

Lauren A Wolfe

Evan Schueler

Brian Kim

Samantha

Lauren Flores

Karen Cuautle

Joe Casarez

Candice Brittain

Joyce

Elizabeth Newell

Emma Lawrence

Max

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Tamara Wheeler

Deanna Thomas

Emmeline Lan

Matt Lewis

Rohan Khanna

irma campos

Ala Bishop

shane slone

Kelley Scanlon

Lilly Myers

Beckie Wood

Mark Hernandez

Liz Steinhart

Diane

Kivrin Taylor

Rio Fernandes

Pablo Padua

Clement Lau

Vivian