Hi,
I'm taking this opportunity to speak to this "streaming first" and
"datadriven" community to try to do a little brainstorming. I'm not
trying to create any panic, I'd like to start a serious discussion about
solving a problem. I'm well aware this is not the primary use-case for
this mailing list, but we are in a sort of special situation. I think we
might share a know-how that might help people and so we could take
advantage of that. Currently, the biggest concern (at least in Europe)
seems to be separating people as much as possible. My questions would be:
- Can we try to think of ways to help people achieve better
separation? There are places people must go to (e.g. shopping food), can
we help planning this so that there are less peaks?
- Can we find any other ways to help prevent the virus spread? Or any
other benefits we can do for people (e.g. missing medical supplies,
missing work force, ...)
- Does anyone have any infrastructure or data that can be used for this?
- Would people be interested in investing some of their (hacking) time
to implement any "global" precaution(s)? IMO there seems to be no
"local" solution to this, currently.
These are only a few questions from the top of my head, please feel free
to add any thoughts.
Cheers,
Jan
