Introduction

OpenMRS is proud to be participating as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code™ for 2009. We've enjoyed participating in this great program in the last few years and look forward to GSoC 2009 being the best year yet!

Projects

The following projects were chosen for OpenMRS internships (Google Summer of Code or OpenMRS Internship Program 2009).

Project	Student	Primary Mentor	Backup Mentor(s)
WYSIWYG Form Designer for Html Form Entry Module	JoÃƒÂ£o Portela	Darius Jazayeri	Daniel Futerman
Integrate Quartz Scheduler into OpenMRS	Dilupa Munindradasa	Justin Miranda	Vibha Anand
Serialization Service	Lu Zhuang Wei	Ben Wolfe	Daniel Kayiwa
Longitudinal Data Review (Discrete Data Flowsheet) Module	Omar Verduga	Paul Biondich	Maros Cunderlik
Global Property Types	Pavel Konnikov	Dave Thomas	Justin Miranda
Data Synchronization___Create New Sync Node	Antoine Nzeyimana	Maros Cunderlik	Ben Wolfe
Role-based home page	Harshini Gudiwada	Saptarshi Purkayastha	Darius Jazayeri
Audit Module (Data Integrity Module)	Nimantha Baranasuriya	Brian McKown	Mike Seaton
Video Upload and Review From Mobile Phones	Katherine Kuan	Gari Clifford	Zack Anderson, RJ Ryan
OpenMRS Patient Authentication via Hybrid Online/Offline Mobile Phones	Jenny Liu	Zack Anderson	Gari Clifford, RJ Ryan
Support for Active Lists	Upul Godage	Burke	Dave
Facility Data Module (To Delete)	Robert O'Connor	Mike Seaton	Darius Jazayeri
Integration of the OpenEMPI Master Patient Index with OpenMRS	Amogha Gundavaram	Odysseas Pentakalos	Shaun Grannis
Enhancing Patient De-duplication Workflow	Saketh Bhamidipati	Shaun	James
Integrating OpenMRS with FrontlineSMS (mobile phone software)	Moses Mugisha	Daniel Kayiwa	Paul Biondich
Global Caching Support for OpenMRS Logic Service	Felicia Rosemond	Tammy Dugan	Burke Mamlin

Expectations

Expectations of students working with OpenMRS this summer:

Students should become familiar with OpenMRS and their project prior to the start date
Weekly Blog entry
Commit early, commit often
Join the interns mailing list (we'll help you with this)
Technical discussions should occur in IRC or within the developers mailing list

What students should expect of OpenMRS during the summer:

You will have fun!
You will learn how to work within an open-source project
You will have a clearly defined mentor along with a backup mentor
Your mentor will be able to spend at least 4-5 hours per week working with you
The program administrators will be available for any issues that arise between students and mentors

Next Steps

Get in touch with your mentor
Get openmrs installed and running — see Developers Guide page and use the community if you have questions
Get coding environment installed and running
Review our conventions page
Request a trac account
Register your blog RSS (or ATOM) URL with OpenMRS — Ben, Brian, Burke, or Paul can help with this
- If you don't have a blog yet, you can create one for free at WordPress.com or Blogger.com
Browse the current OpenMRS code specific to your project
Create your User Page (see how to create a user profile page)
Browse other GSoC projects and the pages they have for their students. We want to A) make sure we "keep up with the Jones'" and then B) be better than the Jones'.
Review the requirements for your project (see Projects Page)
Submit formal proposal to your mentor
Agree on final requirements with your mentor
Develop project schedule with your mentor

Program Timeline

Both GSoC and OIP will follow the Official Google Timeline.

Prior to May 26 — Community Bonding Period
- This is the time to get to know your fellow interns and your mentor(s)
- Download and install OpenMRS on your machine, install Eclipse (see our Developers Guide page for getting started tips and don't forget to use the community if you have questions)
May 26 — Coding Begins
- Ideally, we'd like all projects to have a project plan in place by this time. If not done, then the first week should be used to do it.
- Don't forget: commit early and often!
July 13 — midterm evaluations due
August 17 — pencils down (end of projects)

Community Resources

The OpenMRS Development Site — we use Trac as a tool for issue tracking and project management
Email
- Personal e-mail — for discussing larger design ideas and good for asynchronous communication. We always encourage technical discussions to use the dev list (email|dev|openmrs.org).
- Mailing Lists
  - email|interns|openmrs.org — for administrative issues. This list should NOT be used for technical discussions
  - email|dev|openmrs.org — for technical discussions
IRC — discussions in the #openmrs channel of freenode are always fun! Useful for lower bandwidth discussions or for larger group discussions
Skype or Phone — sometimes a short discussion can get ideas across much more efficiently
Google Docs — an excellent tool for sharing and collaborating in real time on documents or spreadsheets
Wiki
- Everyone is encouraged to make a user profile page
- Every project should have a OpenMRS wiki page where you document your project, progress, technical details, show mock ups, etc.
OpenMRS Forum — when you want to get feedback on an idea or mockup, the forum can be very handy. Sometimes it helps to create a forum topic and then send a note to the dev list and/or putting a link on your project's wiki page directing people to the forum entry
Scheduling
- TimeAndDate.com — to clarify/coordinate times around the world
- Doodle.ch — to coordinate meeting times for larger groups

Trouble/Questions

Contact Burke and/or Paul
email|burke|openmrs.org
email|paul|openmrs.org

Resources

Summer Of Code 2009