The Herald Community

The Herald Community consists of software developers, designers, and healthcare experts all working together to improve healthcare software for all.

Project Advisory Group

We have a Project Advisory Group consisting of Public Health Authorities and experts in Digital Contact Tracing. Membership is invite only but output will be posted as unattributed minutes in our project website.

Public Meetings

We also organise public meetings in varying timezones to present the latest updates, and to gather public feedback and answer questions. You can see when these are on the Linux Foundation Public Health’s Calendar.

Do you want to help build Herald?

If you’re a newcomer, check out the “Good first issue” and “Help wanted” labels in the Herald documentation repository.

• Join the Linux Foundation Public Health’s Slack and our #herald-general channel and talk to our community members: https://slack.lfph.io/

• Follow us on Twitter at @HeraldProximity

• You can also view our Public Roadmap on Miro

Helps

Below are some items the Herald project team are looking for specific assistance with. If you feel you can help then please visit the links below:-

Help Summary	Ideal timeline	Links
DCT Distance conversion and Risk Exposure algorithm design, implementation, and evaluation The Herald project have published 2.3 million data points from phones at 1cm resolution and are working on distance conversion routines to make them more accurate. We’ve also provided a general analysis streaming API to enable this and various disease exposure estimation routines to be created and implementation on mobile devices. If you would like to help us implement and evaluate these methods please come talk to us on Slack	Apr-Sep 2021	API Sample tests
Website information architecture We need someone who is experienced at helping a very broad community with different interests to find information on our website. We’re improved it recently, but more work still is needed. Please visit our #herald-general slack channel on the LFPH slack instance detailed above	Any time	This site!
Pseudo Device Address randomness methods Some phones incorrectly rotate their BLe MAC address every few seconds. This causes device discovery routines to reconsider a device even though it may have only just been identified recently. The Pseudo Device Address is a method around this. The mechanism used to generate this address needs to be reliable on a wide range of phones - even when idle for many hours - and prevent a passing attacker from predicting future addresses based on just the current observable address. There are many methods - we’re looking for suggestions that work across Android devices going back, ideally, to Android 5.0.	Early-Mid Jan 2021	Android GitHub Issue #118