GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud, build containers, automate messages, and lots more. Around the world, people are even using Actions for social good, like helping the COVID-19 response efforts. That’s exactly what Karuna is doing.
Whilst we’ve been sharing lots of stories from amazing developers like Daniel, we wanted to give you something special. This week we have a heartfelt interview with Anand Chowdhary. Anand isn’t using GitHub Actions. He and his team have been using GitHub Actions to help alleviate the COVID-19 pandemic. Check out their story for some inspirational reading.
Anand Chowdhary gives us insight into how they are using GitHub Actions.
Karuna 2020 – helping those affected by COVID-19
Before we jump into Actions, we need to understand what Anand and his team have built. During the pandemic, Anand moved from Netherlands back to his family in India. He soon realised the disproportionate impact COVID was having on the country:
[There’s a] disproportionate impact of the lockdown on migrant workers and daily wage earners. With no work, these laborers were having trouble feeding their families. For me, I could comfortably stay at home for months, but this was not true for millions of Indians.
Anand wanted to do something about it. So he and his team founded Karuna 2020. It’s open sourced on GitHub and is an initiative to help those most affected by COVID:
We built a “dream team” of startups, corporates, and nonprofits, and founded Karuna 2020… We started collecting donations and built a “dry ration kit” to sustain a family for a month, and partnered with nonprofits to manufacture masks to distribute among healthcare, police, and other front-line workers.
This would be a tremendous amount of work. Luckily, Anand and the team use GitHub Actions to help make this whole process smoother.
GitHub Actions for Karuna 2020
From the start, Anand wanted Karuna to be open source. He wanted to ensure everything they were doing was “completely open and transparent”. GitHub Actions has been a central part of the Karuna project:
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