There are many ways to help our community achieve our mission. And you don't have to be a developer in order to make a difference!

If you're interested in knowing more about how our community works and is organized, watch this short video about our community and check out our Community Wiki Page. Our Community Engagement Dashboard is a good place to go if you want to know about our community engagement vision and priorities.

If you want to know what technical projects we're working on collaboratively, check out our Product Dashboard.

If you're interested in understanding how the work the community is doing supports country implementations, check out our Strategic Framework for Investment and Collaboration.

If you're interested in starting as a DEVELOPER, take a look through our Getting Started as a Developer. It includes a Getting Started Guide that will give you all the information you need to get started as an OpenMRS developer in an easy to read and concise format.  Once you've read through the book, click /wiki/spaces/docs/pages/25475369 to find a quick summary of things you can do to get started!

If you're interested in IMPLEMENTING OpenMRS, take a look at our Implementer Wiki Page

If you're interested in VOLUNTEERING for OpenMRS, visit the volunteer page on our website!

The latest version of OpenMRS is Reference Application 2.6.0 which fixes bugs such as:

• Unable to modify/edit a Program from OpenMRS admin

• Fix HL7UtilTest failure on OpenJDK 7

• AbstractHandler#purgeComplexData(Obs) should return true when file is missing from disk

• Deal with active lists which have no reactions

• Fix performance of get concepts by mapping

• Remove redundant null checks

• Accepting more characters for observation value of type Text

• AllergenType includes some invalid options

• Error Scenario in Obs Save : New child Obs not saving when entire Obs group is updated

• Set HttpOnly for JSESSIONID cookie

• Failing to start the server due to CacheManager issue

• Initial Setup (installer) sits at 100% too long before actually finishing

To keep up-to-date on our most recent versions and bug fixes make sure to visit our Release Notes section of the Wiki.

If you're ready to install OpenMRS, installation instructions can be found here.

If you'd like to use demo data, a sample anonymized data set, including 5,000 patients and 500,000 observations, is available for testing the OpenMRS reference application. This is useful for potential implementers to see how OpenMRS might work within their health clinics. Download our demo data here.

The purpose of developer stages is to help clarify where people are in their journey, motivate people to become increasingly skilled in OpenMRS development, and help us recognize when people are becoming more skilled with OpenMRS Development.

Learn more here.

OpenMRS has enjoyed participating in Google Summer of Code since 2007. We're extremely excited about the projects and mentorship opportunities that we hope to make available this year. Coding for OpenMRS is a great way to practice your coding skills and, at the same time, help benefit people in developing countries who are on the front lines of the battle against HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, and other public health challenges.

Learn more about GSoC at OpenMRS here.

OpenMRS holds weekly meetings which are open to the public. In addition to the squad/team Talk or Wiki pages linked below, you have three additional places to go for more details:

OpenMRS Events

OpenMRS Live Calendar

OpenMRS Release Calendar

Coffee Break! 

Have a question or problem about O3 and want to talk it over with other devs? Join us for Coffee Break !

When: Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 5pm IST | 2:30pm Nairobi | 1:30pm Cape Town | 11:30am UTC | 7:30am Boston | 4:30am Seattle

Where: https://om.rs/o3coffee

Monday

Professional Development Management

When: 8pm IST | 5:30pm Nairobi | 4:30pm Cape Town | 2:30pm UTC | 10:30am Boston | 7:30am Seattle

Where: Zoom Academy

Wednesday

Bahmni PAT

When: 6:30pm IST | 5pm Nairobi | 4pm Cape Town | 2pm UTC | 8am Boston | 5am Seattle

Where: https://thoughtworks.zoom.us/j/255788233

Global Events & Marketing Team

When: 7:30pm IST | 5pm Nairobi | 4pm Cape Town | 2pm UTC | 9am Boston | 6am Seattle

Where: Zoom Events

OCL for OpenMRS Squad

When: 7:30pm IST | 5pm Nairobi | 4pm Cape Town | 2pm UTC | 9am Boston | 6am Seattle

Where: https://om.rs/zoomocl

Thursday

O3 Frontend Squad

When: 9:30pm IST | 7pm Nairobi | 6pm Cape Town | 4pm UTC | 11am Boston | 8am Seattle

Where: https://om.rs/zoommicrofrontend)

Technical Action Committee

When: 7:30pm IST | 5pm Nairobi | 4pm Cape Town | 2pm UTC | 9am Boston | 6am Seattle

Where: https://om.rs/zoomtac

To find our more about these meetings, click here.