Hackathon Dates: - | Location: Argyle Grand Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya
“Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete.” ― Steven Johnson
The Annual OpenMRS Conference Hackathons, a place where innovation meets rigorous engineering practices! Is usually an opportunity for community members, teams and architects to engage and get their “hands-in” or “on” OpenMRS and related projects, working on exciting and high priority tasks and challenges, as well as having an opportunity to propose low hanging fruit use cases for groups to work on. It has been a place where we can grow existing skills, learn new skills, and build relationships with others in the community.
At this year’s OMRS24 Hackathon, as part of our commitment to excellence, we're introducing a new requirement: If there's coding involved, there should be tests! 🤩
If there's coding involved, there should be tests!
As we implement the "Tests Required on all PRs" policy, every team working on engineering tasks will be expected to write tests as they develop their solutions. To support this initiative, expert coaches will be on hand to guide you through the process. But that’s not all—teams with the best test coverage will be eligible for a special award. We’ll be looking for:
Comprehensive Coverage: How well does your test suite cover the codebase?
Diversity of Tests: Are you using a variety of test types to ensure robustness?
Quality: How effective and well-structured are your tests?
This is more than just a hackathon; it’s a chance to improve your coding practices and showcase your testing prowess!
Teams with the best test coverage will be eligible for a special award
Objectives
We are looking forward to the attendees (that is you, the participant) bringing their technical strengths to the table and bringing their challenges and use cases to engage with others in the field. These sessions are focused at providing the space for the architects, the analysts, the developers, the system integrators, and the implementers within the community to meet and discuss how to solve active problems and develop innovative solutions. We are expecting a combination of the following to emerge:
Focused technical discussions around how best to engage with fundamental aspects and architecture of OpenMRS.
Bringing your technical questions and projects/code to persons with expertise in these areas and engaging with them and others on how best to architect and develop solution(s).
Resolving high priority issues and tackling new features on the OpenMRS roadmap.
Bring your development skills to the table and try to help others working on various challenges.
Current Challenges
Please add in any challenges that you might want to pose to the attendees or smaller high priority issues/bugs raised by the community and/or from the core OpenMRS roadmap to be tackled at the Hackathon.
NOTE: If you're proposing a topic because you're looking for help on an issue (as opposed to offering yourself up to work on the issue), please fill in the 'Support Needed' column with the type of expertise or help you'd require.
Title | Description | Support Needed | Notes and Slides | Ambassador |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mozambique Priority Use Case | High priority roadmap features/issues related to the application of OpenMRS and its distributions in Mozambique. So of the topics that are currently relevant include:
| Jembi Health Systems | ||
Extending Bahmni Integration with DHIS2 | Work on support for Bahmni integration with DHIS2 See here for more info:
https://github.com/Possiblehealth/dhis2-integration File sharing: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1exwLBimmUZ9bPSMEgUkWqut1o2_mHbTO Reporsitory to work on: https://github.com/lauravignoli/dhis2-integration How to install maven in centos 6: https://tecadmin.net/install-apache-maven-on-centos/ |
| Jembi Health Systems | |
Learning about SPA / Microfrontends | There will be some people from the Microfrontends Squad at the hackathon to help people get started with Microfrontends and Single-SPA, the technologies behind the new OpenMRS front-end initiative. Please note that we will expect some familiarity with Javascript and React. If either of these technologies is new to you, please see the following tutorials (they cover the minimum that participants will be expected to understand). If you already have a good grip on both of those technologies, you can get a head start by doing The Single-SPA Tutorial and browsing around the OpenMRS Microfrontends Wiki. | |||
OpenMRS and FHIR | There has been some recent work on the FHIR module and a working group set up looking at OpenMRS and FHIR. This session will focus on the use of FHIR in the OpenMRS community and look for opportunities to extend support for FHIR. This will likely include some focus on the WHO CDS topic below. | |||
OpenMRS/Bahmni Data Exchange and Interoperability with openIMIS | There is ongoing work for interfacing with various tools and workflows (OpenMRS Bahmni, DHIS2), leveraging the OpenHIM and other HIE components:
Slides: WHO-ITU - Module 4 - OpenHIE and OpenHIM - 2019 OpenHIM Mapping Mediator Specification OpenHIM Mapping Mediator: https://github.com/jembi/openhim-mediator-mapping OpenHIM Mediator Tutorials: https://github.com/jembi/openhim-mediator-tutorial | Slides: openIMIS @ OMRS19 Hackathon | ||
WHO Clinical Decision Support | The World Health Organization (WHO) Computable Care Guidelines working group has been working on Clinical Decision Support using FHIR/CQL and have set up a simplified reference implementation to make it easier for POS applications to interact with this. The aim of this session is to support practical investigations into how Bahmni and OpenMRS could engage/interface with this. Slides: | Slides: WHO CCG @ OMRS19 Hackathon | ||