Show HN: Codevid-19, a Global and Distributed Covid-19 Hackathon

With the COVID-19 pandemic in full swing, many people are looking at a lot of free time stuck indoors. Avoid cabin fever and use that time to make a difference in your community and the fight against COVID-19 by joining CODEVID-19, a worldwide collaborative pandemic hackathon!

Our objective is to improve the quality of life of people during the pandemic! We believe faster, more effective and more available solutions/ideas/projects are preferred to slower, less useful and limited ones.

The hackathon has already been launched and teams are working, with many more coming online and exponential growth in global collaboration.

We are actively seeking global teams of developers, designers and passionate creators in collaboration with others in the domain of public health and emergency management. We also need judges, sponsors, and volunteers behind the scenes so reach out to contact@codevid19.com if you’re interested.

While prizes and submission rules are being finalized, our goal is to have teams submit their final submissions at the end of April.

Join or create a project and get started at:

https://findcollabs.com/hackathon/codevid-19-isp21fkqtjupchx...

You can also submit ideas, and collaborate with team mates and the community in real-time on our Slack.

https://join.slack.com/t/codevid-19/shared_invite/zt-cs8aman...

Contact: Mark Bennett contact@codevid19.com

BTW this is my first ever HN post. Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to know! Cheers, and stay safe out there!

This is a great intiative,over 800 devs now participating