2020-03-25 Meeting notes

Existing work

Irene Stevens (Unlicensed)

• Irene has a medical background, started by setting up a web form with questions

• Collected ~34 responses so far using a Microsoft App and started building a prototype dashboard

• Had difficulties sharing the Microsoft products publicly, without any form of authentication

Open source tool

Phil Ewels

• dan.rosen (Unlicensed) heard about https://github.com/BustByte/coronastatus and shared it with the group

• Open source solution build using nodejs + yarn. Can be deployed using a docker container

• Has support for localisation and translation. Designed for locally installed instances in different countries

• Homepage has intro followed by survey that can be completed by anyone. Other pages show a map of responses and summary statistics. All data is open and can be downloaded in .csv format as well as being accessible through an API

Survey questions

Phil Ewels

• Existing questions were started with a Norwegian list and then merged with a set of questions from a preprint discussing predictive modelling of coronavirus infections

• Discussion of questions can be found here: https://github.com/BustByte/coronastatus/issues/245

• Potentially some flexibility in the questions if needed. Good to keep these as static as possible once the site launches however.

Hosting

Linus Östberg (Unlicensed)

• SciLifeLab Data Office has just set up a Kubernetes cluster, intended for web hosting using docker containers. Would be ideal for this project

Domain name

• Would be good to avoid tethering the domain to any specific institution (SciLifeLab / UU etc)

• coronastatus.se is the logical domain to fit in with the network, but is taken

• corona-status.se is possible

• We can address this at a later date, easy to move the site between domains as needed

Promotion of websites

Phil Ewels

• Key to this project being a success is it (a) being endorsed by the community and (b) not competing with other similar initiatives

• Idea is to build a prototype version of the site and write a proposal. Then make this plan available to management and ask for feedback and suggestions.

• Relevant channels will be key - who does this come from?