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Emergency Response “Hackathon” to Help MSF with Ebola Outbreak

Posted on 2014-09-28 by Paul Sutton

Another opportunity for anyone who has the right skills and is willing to get involved

 

We're launching an emergency response "hackathon" this weekend to help
Medecins sans Frontieres with a specific problem they're having in
responding to the Ebola outbreak.

They need a way to track patient information and more quickly find
individual patients in their Emergency Treatment Centres. (more info in
this Google Doc
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iv5VFdSsPnYyM7DcSrO8SoMMYsKov_8MhpJMi-6njNY/edit>
)

*The solution may include a Raspberry Pi or Arduino Nano element which is
why I wanted to ask you if you can help or know any really good developers
who we should invite to the team?*

We're forming a tight team of people from the Geeklist Corps of Developers
+ others in our networks who we know are good, to get together and work
with MSF to build a solution that works and can be rapidly deployed.

So far on the team we have Pim de Witte on back-end/Java, Gil Julio on
Android app, and me on UX.

We're going to have a kick-off call at 9pm BST / 10pm CEST tonight (Friday)
to discuss more and form the team, then we'll likely get together in London
this weekend.

Can you help?

- Dan
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