  COVID-19 has had a profound impact on the lives of all human beings. Emerging
technologies have made significant contributions to the fight against the
pandemic. An extensive review of the application of technology will help
facilitate future research and technology development to provide better
solutions for future pandemics. In contrast to the extensive surveys of
academic communities that have already been conducted, this study explores the
IT community of practice. Using GitHub as the study target, we analyzed the
main functionalities of the projects submitted during the pandemic. This study
examines trends in projects with different functionalities and the relationship
between functionalities and technologies. The study results show an imbalance
in the number of projects with varying functionalities in the GitHub community,
i.e., applications account for more than half of the projects. In contrast,
other data analysis and AI projects account for a smaller share. This differs
significantly from the survey of the academic community, where the findings
focus more on cutting-edge technologies while projects in the community of
practice use more mature technologies. The spontaneous behavior of developers
may lack organization and make it challenging to target needs.
