Open Source COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps to Improve Transparency and Adoption - Ana Jiménez, Bitergia

Since covid-19 outbreak, governments and public administrations from several countries have been relying on open source tracing apps to help citizens while simultaneously advancing the technology ecosystem. Some of the examples include Immuni (Italy), SwissCovid (Switzeland), Open Trace (Singapore) or Corona-warn-app (Germany). One benefit that comes from the open source nature and transparency of these apps, is how quickly these solutions can scale up to stop disease outbreaks. To know more about the details, we need to take a deeper look at their software development activity. During this talk, we will share some insights from a previous analysis about open source contact tracing apps, in order to see how robust the software development activity is on the different solutions.

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4. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia @Bitergia @anajsana95 This talk is NOT about... Code Analysis Privacy Analysis Accuracy tests
5. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia Software Development activity patterns analysis Public entities
6. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia Software Marketer, Data Scientist, Open Source advocate Let's say I'm a hybrid with cross-domain superhero powers!
7. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia Motivation: Bitergians List of free, open source software for COVID contact tracing by @jgbarah Analyzing data on Corona-Warn-App's development by @jsmanrique
8. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia Share this! @Bitergia • Understand the community and processes involved in software development cauldron.io • FREE, Open Source Saas platform for analysts, developers and managers • Built on top of GrimoireLab
9. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia TRACING APP FIRST COMMIT (GITHUB) NHS covid-19 (uk) March Inmuni (Italy) March Corona-warn-app (Germany) April Stay away Covid (Portugal) May CoronaMelder (Netherlands) May COVID tracker (Ireland) June Radar Covid (Spain) September
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11. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia Share this! @Bitergia Identifying Patterns • Is there a community around these projects? • How is the evolution of active developers? • How responsive is the community? • What about developer onboarding? • When/where do developers work?
12. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia Deployment (open source launch)
13. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia radar covid (spain)
14. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia Covid TRacker (Ireland)
15. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia activity pattern: work on private repos first, then “open source” everything using a single commit no git history available = low level of transparency
16. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia inmuni (italy) coronamelder (netherlands) corona-warn-app (germany)
17. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia NHS COVID19 (UK) stay away covid (portugal)
18. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia Onboarding (Git)
19. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia radar covid (spain) when people made their first commit (newcomers) when people made their last commit (contributors leaving)
20. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia inmuni (italy) coronamelder (netherlands) corona-warn-app (germany)
21. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia Covid TRacker (Ireland)
22. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia NHS COVID19 (UK) stay away covid (portugal)
23. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia Community response
24. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia Covid TRacker (Ireland) no issues
25. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia Activity pattern: focused on releasing code. No community involved
26. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia inmuni (italy)
27. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia radar covid (spain)
28. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia NHS COVID19 (UK)
29. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia corona-warn-app (germany)
30. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia coronamelder (netherlands)
31. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia stay away covid (portugal)
32. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia Working hours behavior and organizational diversity
33. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia corona-warn-app (germany) coronamelder (netherlands) inmuni (italy)
34. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia radar covid (spain) stay away covid (portugal)
35. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia Official organization involved in radar covid development radar covid (spain)
36. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia Official organizations involved in radar covid development corona-warn-app (germany)
37. Share this! @Bitergia Bitergia Highlights Transparency is important in order to build a sense of fair play (among contributors) and sense of trust (among third parties) Transparency might help to encourage national tech companies to get involved in the development of the app
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