Ask HN: Who has been laid off?

Re:Ask HN: Who has been laid off? by 3pt14159 on Friday April 03, 2020 @01:19PM (#22771716)

I'm sorry to hear that dude.

Haskell is a demanding language, so you're almost certainly a pretty senior dev. If so, consider volunteering to help organizations during the downtime. Worst case, if you can't get that dream gig back it will certainly make your resume stand out when you're looking for your next thing. Best of luck.

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Re:Ask HN: Who has been laid off? by Ididntdothis on Friday April 03, 2020 @01:50PM (#22772131)

Where can people volunteer with tech skills? Is there a demand for it?

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Re:Ask HN: Who has been laid off? by erikbye on Friday April 03, 2020 @02:41PM (#22772684)

While not what you meant, if people with coding skills have free time, it is greatly appreciated if they contribute to open source projects that are widely used. A lot of OSS are critical components in many systems we rely on daily, your contributions can have more value than you can even imagine.

It would be great if all devs could keep this in mind, but especially the ones that are about to get some time off (if life does not get too stressful for you).

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Re:Ask HN: Who has been laid off? by goodcanadian on Friday April 03, 2020 @02:28PM (#22772537)

https://crowdfightcovid19.org/

This is aimed at scientists, but my wife is on the list and tells me that they are looking for UX designers and software developers.

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Re:Ask HN: Who has been laid off? by Delk on Friday April 03, 2020 @02:54PM (#22772807)

Any idea what kinds of software development skills they're looking for?

I guess if they're also looking for UX designers, they aren't looking for just data analysis code?

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Re:Ask HN: Who has been laid off? by goodcanadian on Friday April 03, 2020 @03:54PM (#22773351)

I don't have much information. I was told frontend and backend.

Edit: given the subject matter, I imagine there is demand for data analysis expertise, but that is my own speculation.

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Re:Ask HN: Who has been laid off? by zigzaggy on Friday April 03, 2020 @01:58PM (#22772211)

New York has a tech response team that you can volunteer with to help out: https://www.ny.gov/programs/new-york-state-covid-19-technolo...

See HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22723098

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Re:Ask HN: Who has been laid off? by vitorbaptistaa on Friday April 03, 2020 @02:12PM (#22772355)

Also, for data-related tasks, there's the DataKind group. Their UK chapter is very active: https://www.datakind.org/chapters/datakind-uk

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Re:Ask HN: Who has been laid off? by typest on Friday April 03, 2020 @01:58PM (#22772210)

helpwithcovid.com. I believe there is quite a bit of demand on some of these projects.

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