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OpenMRS Academy!

Want a structured walk-through of how our community works, and an overview of our community software? Check out the courses on the new OpenMRS Academy: https://openmrs.org/academy/

See especially the OpenMRS Fundamentals Academy course.

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With a global network of members, staying connected digitally is important. Follow these quick steps to get set up on all our relevant communication channels. Different groups and teams may use different platforms, so learn about their differences with our Communication Channels guide. Then, come back here and go through the following steps to begin receiving access and meeting core OpenMRS members.

  1. Sign up for an OpenMRS ID - this is a key step for participating in the community.

  2. Sign into our Community Forum, OpenMRS Talk, with your OpenMRS ID. Introduce yourself to other members of the community! If you're new to Discourse, click on your first notification to begin the interactive tutorial.

  3. For real-time or near real-time communication, you can find us on the following platforms:

    1. Join conversations OpenMRS Talk

    2. Join the OpenMRS Slack

  4. Make yourself familiar with the OpenMRS Wiki, or bookmark it for later!

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Community Management and Operations

Technical Action Architecture Committee

The Community Management and Operations Team provides overall governance of our community and operations. That includes community conventions, grant management (ie: workplanning, reporting, etc), collaboration with third parties, and upholding community values.

If you're interested in community management at OpenMRS, come learn more about us. All are welcome.

Community Management & Operations Team Home PageNotes

The Technical Action Architecture Committee (TAC) oversees OpenMRS' overall technical and system architecture. Their goal is to ensure our software products are built and released correctly.

Anyone is free to contribute to TAC starting with participating in weekly team calls.

Technical Action Architecture Committee Home Wiki Page

Global Events

Translation

The Global Events eam is responsible for bringing the OpenMRS community together, globally and locally, in-person or virtually,

Our primary purpose is organizing the annual Implementer's Meeting, from developing the budget to planning individual events.

If you have a passion for event planning, we can use your enthusiasm and skill.

Global Events Team Wiki

Healthcare systems demand software that can be used in any country, with any language, so we must always grow our system's internationalization, localization, and translation repositories. Whether or not you’re a professional translator, consider helping us translate the OpenMRS product.

Help Translate OpenMRS

Step 4: Squads

Looking for a short-term or a more focused commitment? Squads are smaller groups working on discrete/time-limited community activities, projects, and modules. Squads are supported by Teams, which perform more general work. Here are the primary Squads looking for contributors:

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