cwa-documentation VS Loomio

Germany hired SAP to build their app and it is open source.

I was developing some architecture training recently and had this very same question. It’s not easy to find realistic architectures.

The best I found was the German contact tracing app — Corona Warn App. It was done by a group of consultancies in collaboration with the German govt, and went from inception to launch in around fifty days — largely if not totally open source.

Here’s the repo that has all the architecture in: https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation

It’s got full git history so you can see it evolve over time, along with the implementations (also on Github).

There’s a pretty fascinating short talk by one of the people who led the project on youtube too — more about the process side though: https://youtu.be/5y1sHSkPWRg?t=1770

Hier ist das erklärt: https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation/blob/main/images/risk_calculation/risk_calculation_enf_v2_overview.pdf

Relevante Diskussion: https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation/issues/634

A few more truly in the vibe of open source projects not advertising their hosting providers: https://plane.so/ , https://element.io/ , https://www.loomio.com/ , https://zulip.com/ , and it keeps going... Very few open source projects, in the FOSS sense, are advertising their hosting provider.

Loomio [https://www.loomio.com/] would be a great forum, cooperative decision making tool for running such a group. The next step would be building out any tools that are not covered by loomio and the likes.

I understand that reaction. If you look into it, you'll see that they collaboratively decide how to use group resources with consensus-based decision making, and tools like Loomio.

Loomio does have a few other options (including score voting and ranked choice)

I would say that without the legal aspects, any transparency will still be missing a way to be accountable. But you can take a look at coop models. Also check out https://www.loomio.com/, https://cobudget.com/ and the coops that build it https://www.loomio.coop/, https://www.enspiral.com/.