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_This document is temporal: it is not meant to be updated after 2020-03-21_

# Plan (COVID-19 Scicloj Online Hackathon I)

Detailed, for internal use.

Durations are tentative.

I'd like to find an opportunity to compare the same problem using multiple approaches. For instance Alan Marazza's exploration of Italian data [with Panthera][2] and [with pure Clojure][1] –Dave

## Part 1: Shared, approx. 1 hour
1. (Daniel) Open, participatory, slow, inviting
2. (Teodor) Goals for the event, goals for the work
   - This is a special situation. We have a shared challenge. Yet, I observe a
     special sense of cooperation.
   - Organizers' definition of success: participants have a space for
     collaboration, and are able to make a meaningful contribution.
   - What we're doing now is fragile. It takes /so much/ trust to make this go
     smoothly. I hope everyone will meet each other in the spirit of help.
3. (Daniel) People say a bit about who they are
   - Vincent in Taiwan: strict government control
     - Q: what can we learn?
   - Jack: here to help.
4. (Teodor) Teodor demonstrates how to get started on a project
   1. Put my name in the projects document under Dave's project
   2. Create a zoom topic
   3. Link to the Zoom topic from the document.
5. (Dave) Dave presents
   - Possibly: collect questions in Zulip thread.
   - Notes
     - Dave used Hickory to parse HTML
     - I really would like to discuss data quality with Dave. How big is the
       difference between reported numbers and real numbers?
6. (Teodor) Practicalities?
   - How do I ask for help?
     - Using the #assistance topic
     - Can the ones who are monitoring the topic introduce themselves, and say
       what topic(s) they can help with?
   - How do we coordinate project work? We encourage:
     - One topic for each project
     - Channels are listed on the projects document
     - Groups create Git repos and arrange video chats as they see fit
       - Video chat recommendation: Zoom. One user must host. Free for meetings up
         to 40 minutes.
       - Video chat recommendation: Whereby. One user must host. Free for up to 4
         people.
     - Groups are advised to create their own project coordination document, and
       link to it from the projects page on HackMD
       - The project document can show process as the work goes along
       - The project document can be used to share conclusions
7. (Teodor) Project introductions.
   - Local data: Dave
     - Ask Dave or Jack
     - Step 1: explore data
     - Step 2: visualize for a different region, different dataset
     - Step 3: anything
   - Dragan's post: John
   - Look for existing notebooks: Daniel
   - "How can we actually help": Teodor
8. (Daniel, optionally Teodor) Project discussion. Ask people if they wish to
   present their project idea, and invite people to invite their team.
## Part 2: Working in groups, approx 2 hours
## Part 3: Shared discussion, approx 1 hour
1. (Daniel) Teams present their work and get some feedback
2. (Daniel) Conclusion - how we continue in the coming days.


[1]: https://github.com/appliedsciencestudio/covid19-clj-viz/blob/master/src/appliedsciencestudio/covid19_clj_viz/italia.clj
[2]: https://alanmarazzi.gitlab.io/blog/posts/2020-3-19-italy-covid