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OpenMRS Developers Forum 2016-02-18

Recording: https://goo.gl/k1jWPd

Attendees:

Jamie Thomas

Burke Mamlin

Shekhar Reddy

Daniel Kayiwa

Ivange Larry

Vishnurao

Pralay

Michael Downey

Shreyans Sheth

Wyclif Luymia

Suranga Nath Kasthurirathne

Ulrich Tchuenkam

Darius Jazayeri

FOSDEM trip report (Michael Downey)

FOSDEM: Free & Open Source Developers' European Meeting

Brussels, Belgium, ULB campus

This was edition number 16

Free registration, expenses paid for by sponsors & selling beer/food

Estimates of 8,000 people (Univ. limit is 5k)

Food carts & canteen operational during the weekend

Format: https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/

569 speakers, 618 events, and 52 tracks

A few keynotes

Ongoing room for lightning talks: https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/lightning_talks/

Ongoing LPI, BSD, LibreOffice certification exams: https://fosdem.org/2016/certification/

Several associated events before/after: https://fosdem.org/2016/fringe/

Main tracks: Distros, Enterprise, Hardware, Communications, Miscellaneous, Office, Systems Administration, Virtualisation

Primary focus: 37 "Dev rooms" for themes, languages, etc.

Pretend you were there!

Full list of all sessions: https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/events/

Videos from most sessions (30GB+ still being uploaded): https://video.fosdem.org/2016/

Michael Downey's YouTube playlist of highlight sessions: http://mjd.bz/fosdem16

FLOSS Community Metrics summit

This was the latest in a series of meetings of people interested in measuring open source communities

Organized by Bitergia, a research & services company in this space

OpenMRS is partnering with them to run community analytics on their open source (Kibana-based) stack

If you are interested in assisting with this, please contact Michael Downey

OpenMRS presence at FOSDEM 2017:

The largest networking opportunity for FOSS people on the planet

Mostly EU-based people, but also global leaders in open source

OpenMRS people based in Europe, or people who would like to go

Remember the travel grant program for community members going to OpenMRS events or giving OpenMRS talks:

https://openmrs.atlassian.net/wiki/display/RES/OpenMRS+Inc.+Travel+Grant+Program

Lightning talks?

Can we fit into any of the existing dev room?

Contact Michael Downey if you're interested!

GCI Wrap-Up Report (Suranga Kasthurirathne)

2015 is our second year with GCI. 2014 was a trial run, and highly successful

Ran from Dec 7th, 2015 to Jan 25th, 2016

Open to students 13-17 (high schoolers) - tasks not limited to code, also involved outreach, documentation etc.

74 students completed 180 tasks: tasks are repeatable, so can get a bit boring

Highlights

Many of our mentors were ex-gci/gsoc students (yay!)

Total of 16 mentors

Larger participation in comparison to last year

Thanks Robbie, Nyah and ex-GCI'ers

hightened efforts to cheat, but we caught 'em all

Most completed tasks did not automatically make you a winner!

https://codein.withgoogle.com/winners/

Participants / winners (mostly) from different regions that gsoc

Winners

Decision making process

Grand prize winners: Břetislav Hájek from the Czech republic, and a, Vicente Bermúdez from Montevideo, Uruguay

Finalist: Collins Nji, from Bamenda, Cameroon

Winners: Alexian, Syed Ahmed

next year

"Mo" mentors (all GSoC students will be asked to mentor GCI students at the end of the year)

More coordinated effort around comming up with gci tasks all year around

Questions

How can we do better at identifying/tagging small projects/tasks that can wait until end of the year, and go into the GCI queue? JIRA? Something else?

JIRA tagging

Maybe "gci" to suggest potential issues and "gci-20xx" for items specifically planned for a specific year of GCI.

It would help to have a brief description for the community to understand the opportunity

"GCI is ... . You can propose tasks by ..." (best if it can fit in a tweet or two. :-)

Can we move up our pre-work before we apply? Timing with Summit is tight. (i.e., Assume we'll get accepted!)

Agree that working on things during the time of the Summit is difficult. May want to move up the timing of when pre-work should be done.

Was there an after action review with the students? (or is this it?)

That is not necessarily practical as students work with a large number of FOSS projects vs. GSoC where they are matched up 1:1.

Is there _any_ mechanism for student feedback to the project (i.e., how can OpenMRS do GCI better next year)?

TODO: MD will look to see if there's a way to communicate with student participants throught the new task management site after the tasks are complete.

>>>> REMINDER: GSoC PROJECT IDEAS ARE DUE FRIDAY 19 FEBRUARY 19:00 UTC! GET YOUR FIRST DRAFT UP ON THE WIKI TODAY! :-)

>>>> https://talk.openmrs.org/t/be-an-openmrs-leader-be-a-gsoc-mentor/4683

Current mentors: Suranga, Pascal, Maurya, Kumara, Maimoona, Rafal ... who else? :-)

Unassigned projects page: https://openmrs.atlassian.net/wiki/x/GgtUAQ

Dev forum next week: Project Buendia Update w/ Fabian Tamp, DHISreport WIP w/ Sri Maurya Kummamuru

Transcripts

Audio recording of the call: Listen online or download (available after the meeting)

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