#Debian @ #COVID-19 #Biohackathon (April 5-11, 2020)
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2020/03/msg00010.html

    Dear Debian Community,

    There will be an virtual (online) COVID-19 Biohackathon from April 5-11,
    2020 and the Debian Med team invite you help us improve biomedical FOSS
    and the tools/libraries that support those projects.

    Most tasks do not require any knowledge of biology or medicine, and all
    types of contributions are welcome: bug triage, testing, documentation,
    CI, translations, packaging, and code contributions.

        Debian related bugs are viewable at [covid19-bugs]

        Software awaiting packaging is listed at [covid-19-packages], please
        respond to the RFP with your intent so we don’t duplicate work

        You can also contribute directly to the upstream packages, linked
        from the Debian Med COVID-19 task page at [covid-19-packages]. Note:
        many biomedical software packages are quite resource limited, even
        compared to a typical FOSS project. Please be kind to the upstream
        author/maintainers and realize that they may have limited resources to
        review your contribution. Triaging open issues and opening pull requests
        to fix problems is likely to be more useful than nitpicking their coding
        style.

        Architectures/porting: Please focus on amd64, as it is the primary
        architecture for biomedical software. A secondary tier would be arm64 /
        ppc64el / s390x (but beware the endian-related issues on s390x). From a
        free/open hardware perspective it would be great to see more riscv64
        support, but that is not a priority right now

        The Debian Med team is also trying to improve the availability of
        automated biomedical pipelines/workflows [robust-workflows] using the
        Common Workflow Language open standard. The reference implementation of
        CWL is written in Python and there are many open issues ready for work
        that don’t require any biomedical background [cwltool-issues]

        It is very easy to contribute to Debian Med team. We have a lowNMU
        policy for all our packages. Merge requests on Salsa are usually
        processed quickly (but please ping some of the latest Uploaders of the
        package to make sure it will be noticed). Even better if you ask for
        membership to the team and push directly to the salsa repository.

        The [debian-med-team-policy] should answer all questions how to
        contribute.

    The main COVID-19 biohackathon is being organized at [covid-19-bh20] and
    for Debian’s participation we are using [salsa-covid-19-bh20]

    [covid-19-bugs] https://blends.debian.org/med/bugs/covid-19.html

    [covid-19-packages] https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/covid-19

    [covid-19-bh20] https://github.com/virtual-biohackathons/covid-19-bh20

    [salsa-covid-19-bh20]
    https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/2020-covid19-hackathon

    [robust-workflows] https://doi.org/10.1007/s41019-017-0050-4

    [cwltool-issues] https://github.com/common-workflow-language/cwltool/issues

    [COVID-19-advice]
    https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public

    [debian-med-team-policy] https://med-team.pages.debian.net/policy/

    Sincerely,

    Michael R. Crusoe on behalf of the Debian-Med team

    (and Andreas Tille on behalf of Michael R. Crusoe ;-) )