[BjoernKW]

About a week ago there was the #WirVsVirus ("Us vs. the virus") hackathon organised be the German federal government, which saw a massive turnout (~43k people): https://wirvsvirushackathon.org/

It still remains to be seen if any of the ideas developed during this event will make a significant contribution towards fighting the pandemic but many of the proposals look quite promising already. The creative energy and the networking alone probably were already worth it.

According to the German federal government similar efforts in other countries (such as Argentina, Belgium, Canada or India) are currently being organised.

All of the projects are open source and many of them are still ongoing: https://wirvsvirushackathon.devpost.com/ So, you can still contribute even though the main event is over.

There are many other hackathons currently listed on Devpost that attempt to address the various issues around the pandemic, too: https://devpost.com/hackathons?challenge_type=online