Corona, Open Source and a better future.

## Intro

Corona, Open Source and a better future.

by

Christoph Lohmann <[email protected]>

## What is this about?

This is a fast changing topic.

* With corona a fast change occured.
* A fast solution was required.
* Corporate could not fast reply.
* Open Source has a new chance.

## What happened in the beginning of Corona? (0/4)

* People were gathering together freely with one motivation
to defeat the virus.
* The genetic code of the virus was openly exchanged.
* Open Source was gathered to help the scientists and doctors.
* Open Hardware was gathered to help the scientists and doctors.
* Publications about corona were concentrated.

## What happened in the beginning of Corona? (1/4)

* Genetic code was collected and mutations shown.
* This helps in developing the vaccine.
* epitopes can be found
* not changing parts of the virus can be found
* This helps following the spreading.
* Gives hints, if some virus is from a local cluster
or some other cluster.
* Other clusters can be found easily.
* Some websites show the exact spreading across the globa.

## What happened in the beginning of Corona? (2/4)

* Open Source gathered to help the scientists and doctors.
* The EFF and Chaos Communication Club made collections of easily
accessible software for everyone and to be used.

## What happened in the beginning of Corona? (3/4)

* Open Hardware was gathered and used to save lifes.
* Ventilator modifications were made using 3d-printing.
* Ventilator repair kits were made using 3d-printing.
* Shield clips are made using 3d-printing to protect health workers.

* Copyright and all holding back was simply ignored.
* Officials tolerate it.
* For how long?

## What happened in the beginning of Corona? (4/4)

* Publications were concentrated.
* Here some people try to use AI for publication review.
* But here they fail. We already have pubmed and it works.

* This field rather needs strict opening of all papers and raw data
of studies.
* Big publishers are only taking away money from public education
budgets for no reason.

## Examples of how things were done in Germany.

* Mostly paper and fax is exchanged in Germany.
* This is not bad and is fast.

* BUT
* Some EXCEL sheet was seen as an innovation to track down
infections.

* Now corporate entities should make it better.

## Corporations Failed and Fail

* My practice software cannot be easily modified to analyze data.
* See my talk on stoppers of OSS in medical software in Germany.
* The German telematics project was not used at all.
* It is unusable and full of bureaucracy to protect profits.
* It is a big fake VPN, so doctors have to pay high entrance
fees for the VPN routers.
* Copyright and Patents kill people.
* Only simply ignoring them saved lifes.
* Ignoring many more rules saved lifes.
* Who the fuck needs quality assurance?

## Next Up: Destroying the Digitalisation Religion

* Listen close to news.
* The corona apps will be a disaster.

* The corona app is a big scam to get state money by the priests of the
digitalisation religion.
* Now is the time to rip off their masks.
* keep repeating how they failed using the app.
* We can make people not believe in them anymore!

## A Better Future

* Everyone use those these examples.
* Convince officials of the advantages of open systems.
* Open Hardware is a new topic and needs to be spread too.

* Should there be a right to 3d-print medical devices?
* It is needed in case of emergency.
* it is needed in the third world.

* Now you have good arguments against any centralisation.
* Centralisation is an architecture from the past.

* In Germany I am bring up arguments for oss in medical software.
* Only one person who is loud is enough to get more people to
repeat it.

## Questions?

Please ask on IRC.

## Thanks

Thank you for listening.

Comments please to:

Christoph Lohmann <[email protected]>