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+# Second Debian Med COVID-19 hackathon
+
+Planning the second Debian-Med COVID-19 hackathon
+
+Dear Debian Community,
+
+Debian Med joined the virtual (online) [COVID-19 Biohackathon from April 5-11](https://github.com/virtual-biohackathons/covid-19-bh20),
+2020.  We considered the outcome a great success in terms of
+the approached tasks, the new members we gained and the support
+of Debian infrastructure teams (namely the ftpmaster team).
+
+COVID-19 is not over and the Debian Med team wants to do another
+week of hackathon to continue with this great success.  We want
+to do this from June 15th to June 21th 2020.
+
+As in the first sprint 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.
+
+1. [Debian related bugs](https://blends.debian.org/med/bugs/covid-19.html)
+
+2. [Software awaiting packaging](https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/covid-19), please
+respond to the RFP with your intent so we don't duplicate work
+
+3. You can also contribute directly to the upstream packages, linked
+from the [Debian Med COVID-19 task page](https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/covid-19). 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.
+
+4. 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
+
+5. The Debian Med team is also trying to [improve the availability of
+automated biomedical pipelines/workflows](https://doi.org/10.1007/s41019-017-0050-4) 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](https://github.com/common-workflow-language/cwltool/issues).
+
+6. 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.
+
+7. The [debian-med-team-policy](https://med-team.pages.debian.net/policy/) should answer all questions how to
+contribute.
+
+8. There is a [work-needed wiki](https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/2020-covid19-hackathon/-/wikis/COVID-19-Hackathon-packages-needing-work) that will help keep track of who is working on which projects.
+
+9. There is also a [NEW requests wiki](https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/2020-covid19-hackathon/-/wikis/NEW-Requests) where we can request expedited NEW processing to support this effort.
+
+During the hackathon we will coordinate ourselves via the the Salsa coordination page, Debian Med mailing list and IRC:
+
+*  https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/2020-covid19-hackathon/-/wikis/Covid-19-hackathon
+*  https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/
+*  https://wiki.debian.org/IRC
+*  irc://irc.debian.org/debian-med
+*  https://jitsi.debian.social/DebianMedCovid19



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