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2016-02-18 Developers Forum

2016-02-18 Developers Forum

Feb 18, 2016

How to Join

 

Agenda

  • Quickly review previous meeting minutes (5 min)

  • FOSDEM trip report, Google Code-in (GCI) work review

  • Review next meeting agenda

Minutes

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

  • 569 speakers, 618 events, and 52 tracks 

  • A few keynotes 

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

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

  • Pretend you were there!

  • 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:

  • 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!

  • 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)