Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation
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Re: Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation
#2The "worlds most famous" claim is from the website and not the poster
Re: Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation
#3The "worlds most famous" claim is from the website and not the poster
I wasn't sure whether to remove that as a gratuitous adjective. Even without that claim, it's an interesting development, especially as the app cost only €850k.
In contrast, our nearest neighbour scrapped their app last month after spending over £11MM (~€12MM) and are now rebuilding on the Apple/Google API: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53095336
The code is already up on GitHub: https://github.com/HSEIreland
Re: Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation
#4The "worlds most famous" claim is from the website and not the poster
I wasn't sure whether to remove that as a gratuitous adjective. Even without that claim, it's an interesting development, especially as the app cost only €850k. In contrast, our nearest neighbour scrapped their app last month after spending over £11MM (~€12MM) and are now rebuilding on the Apple/Google API: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53095336 The code is already up on GitHub: https://github.com/HSEIreland
I wouldn't put the focus on it being ONLY 850k, that seems a competent price, I would really like to know how in the world they spent 11M on the uk one...
Re: Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation
#5The "worlds most famous" claim is from the website and not the poster
I wasn't sure whether to remove that as a gratuitous adjective. Even without that claim, it's an interesting development, especially as the app cost only €850k. In contrast, our nearest neighbour scrapped their app last month after spending over £11MM (~€12MM) and are now rebuilding on the Apple/Google API: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53095336 The code is already up on GitHub: https://github.com/HSEIreland
I worked on this project a bit and have a deep understanding of how it went about, though, I am not sure how much I can talk about that.
edit: I guess what can be said was it was a highly efficient project, and there weren't so many fingers in the development pot so to say.
Re: Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation
#6The "worlds most famous" claim is from the website and not the poster
It says worlds most successful, which I presume is referring to the fact that nearly 30% of the population with compatible devices have downloaded it.
EDIT: added the 'with compatabile devices' disclaimer
Re: Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wasn't sure whether to remove that as a gratuitous adjective. Even without that claim, it's an interesting development, especially as the app cost only €850k. In contrast, our nearest neighbour scrapped their app last month after spending over £11MM (~€12MM) and are now rebuilding on the Apple/Google API: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53095336 The code is already up on GitHub: https://github.com/HSEIreland
I wouldn't put the focus on it being ONLY 850k, that seems a competent price, I would really like to know how in the world they spent 11M on the uk one...
this is the first I have learned about its price, and I will say- that seems about right given the resources.
Re: Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation
#8The "worlds most famous" claim is from the website and not the poster
I wasn't sure whether to remove that as a gratuitous adjective. Even without that claim, it's an interesting development, especially as the app cost only €850k. In contrast, our nearest neighbour scrapped their app last month after spending over £11MM (~€12MM) and are now rebuilding on the Apple/Google API: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53095336 The code is already up on GitHub: https://github.com/HSEIreland
Beautiful trolling Ireland, bravo!
Re: Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wasn't sure whether to remove that as a gratuitous adjective. Even without that claim, it's an interesting development, especially as the app cost only €850k. In contrast, our nearest neighbour scrapped their app last month after spending over £11MM (~€12MM) and are now rebuilding on the Apple/Google API: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53095336 The code is already up on GitHub: https://github.com/HSEIreland
I wouldn't put the focus on it being ONLY 850k, that seems a competent price, I would really like to know how in the world they spent 11M on the uk one...
That’s like 4 SV devs working a year.
And just in salaries, not including payroll taxes, office space, admins, QAs, etc.
850k sounds eminently reasonable for such an undertaking in such a short period of time.
Re: Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wasn't sure whether to remove that as a gratuitous adjective. Even without that claim, it's an interesting development, especially as the app cost only €850k. In contrast, our nearest neighbour scrapped their app last month after spending over £11MM (~€12MM) and are now rebuilding on the Apple/Google API: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53095336 The code is already up on GitHub: https://github.com/HSEIreland
I wouldn't put the focus on it being ONLY 850k, that seems a competent price, I would really like to know how in the world they spent 11M on the uk one...
I don’t know specifics about the UK version, but most of those costs likely weren’t on the app proper. They did run a field test, for example.
For comparison, the German version cost millions, too. That included multi-language support, setting up help lines, security evaluation, load testing millions of concurrent users and, IIRC, connecting to quite a few of different hospital computer systems.
Add in time pressure, and costs go up. Germany did get a quality system, judging by what the spokesman for the Chaos Computer Club said (paraphrasing: ‘we have the unfamiliar problem that there is so little to complain about’. They never endorse stuff, so that’s about as endorsing as their statements can get)