Summer Of Code 2008
Introduction
OpenMRS is proud of our second year as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code™. We had many excellent applications for 2008 and received 11 slots from Google. Take a look at our project ideas and the Developer How-To Guide. For more information about the Summer of Code, see Google's Student FAQ.
Google Summer of Code 2008 Projects
See the OpenMRS Projects page for available projects and their descriptions.
Projects
The following projects were chosen for OpenMRS Google Summer of Code 2008.
Project | Student | Primary Mentor | Backup Mentor(s) |
Maros Cunderlik | Christian Allen | ||
Scott Rosenbaum and Burke Mamlin | |||
Shaun Grannis | James Egg and Gary Teichrow | ||
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 — a common mistake in open source is to feel like you can share your code too soon or "it's not quite ready yet"
Join the interns mailing list (we'll help you with this)
Technical discussions should occur in IRC or within the developers mailing list (
email|dev|openmrs.org
)
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
See 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 14 — midterm evaluations due
August 18 — 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 discussionsemail|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