As the OpenMRS community maturesgrows, it is important to understand and ensure steps to manage employee retentionoffer opportunities for contributors & customers to connect with people in their part of the world. We also need a more coordinated effort to build local representation and expertise. One approach for achieving these goals is to develop local communities. The purpose of this document is to introduce the OpenMRS local community building effort and describe its merits.
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The will be a subcommittee of the leadership team that will be responsible for the governance of local OpenMRS communities. The initial team members will be @michael, @surangak and @pascal. At first this team will be responsible for setting up the process and will eventually also responsible for maintaining the process as well considering application for new local communities.
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The following might be useful for local community coordinations.
Ubuntu LoCo Portal. This is the portal for local Ubuntu communities and could provides some valuable resources and examples for developing and managing our community. See the great HOW-TO.
Python Local User Groups. The process for starting a Python user group is outlined on this page.
Blog post about organising a Mozilla community.