2009-03-19 Developers Conference Call

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Date

19 March 2009

In Attendance

  • Paul Biondich

  • Mike Seaton

  • Ben Wolfe

  • Sam Mbugua

  • Brian McKown

  • Darius Jazayeri

Agenda

  • GSoC Mentors

  • GSoC Projects

  • Maitenance of projects.openmrs.org

  • OIP's involvement in this summer's internships

  • Mobile / Android updates

  • Driving the DevStudio into broad usage

Minutes

  • Reaching out to potential students in implementing countries.

  • Discussion of items in Talk__Projects and what projects may fit which mentors.

  • Deciding on a project to mentor:

    • Should mentor a project that is mission critical to an implementation?

      • What are the costs if the student drops out?

    • Try to mentor a project that is relevant to what the mentor-developer needs for an implementation.

      • Projects that will satisfy an implementation's needs are good for implementations as well as good for the students' satisfaction.

    • TODO: Darius will reach out to Maro's about his mentorship in GSoC.

    • Darius is listed as WYSIWYG Designer. He will expound on it more.

      • Paul may edit this with regards to "Why this is important to medicine."

      • We should infuse the same on all descriptions.

    • We should put up any/all small/large potential projects

  • Mentors (48 hours for final decision):

    • Dave - Global Property Types

    • Darius - WYSIWYG Designer

    • Mike - Daily Reports or Note Functionality

    • Paul - Longitudinal Data Review

    • Ben - Serialization Service

    • Brian - Audit Module (possibly Form Import/Export) will commit w/in 48 hrs.

    • Justin - Quartz Scheduler (or a scheduled e-mail capability) Ben will write up both project descriptions in Justin's absence.

    • Vibha & Tammy - Caching in the Logic Service (or performance improvements to logic service) Paul with inquire of them.

    • Shaun Grannis - Patient Matching

    • Daniel Kayiwa - possibly PHP-Java Bridge (making API more accessible for PHP) or Note Functionality

      • Paul & Darius will check with Christian about the similar codesnap project.

    • Saptarshi - Role Based Home Pages

    • Other Community Members as Mentors - Mocha Mobile; Odyssius Master-Patient Index Project; Frontline SMS Server for OpenMRS

  • Projects in General

    • Habit of adding Project Proposals to Projects page all year around.

    • Have a curator for the Projects page to keep it updated.

  • Make sure the Development Studio is ready for students to use this year as a starting pathway.