Creating your OpenMRS User Profile

Introduction

In order to build our community and get to know each other, we encourage community members (developers, implementers, etc.) to create a user profile on their wiki home page.

Where do I find my wiki home page?

Once you've created an account within the OpenMRS wiki and you've logged in, you should see your user name (just after the icon). Clicking on your user name will take you to your wiki home page. You can create a link to your user page within the wiki using [[User:Username]].

Profile Entries

The following parameters can be used within the user profile template. The template is invoked by entering something like {{user_profile|name=Your Name|website=[http://mysite.com mysite]}} onto your wiki user page.

name

Your full name

photo

A picture of you. You can upload an image (GIF, JPEG, PNG) using the upload file link and then reference it as [[Image:ImageFileName.jpg]] (substituting your uploaded file's name in place of "ImageFileName.jpg") within your user profile template. For best results, your photo should be 100-150 pixels wide.

location

Where you spend most of your time (city/village and country)

timezone

Your local timezone. Make sure to include the UTC format (you can use this page or this page if you don't know your UTC offset) — ET / UTC-4.

profession

Your title or occupation

school

(students) Your school

degree

(students) Your degree(s)

major

(students) Describe your focus for study

interests

Any particular interests you'd like to share with the community

superlative

A random accomplishment that you're proud of and/or that makes you unique/special

quote

Your favorite quote

skills

Any programming languages or technical skills that you feel others in the OpenMRS community might appreciate knowing about

focus

A particular interest or focus within the OpenMRS project

projects

List any OpenMRS projects you're involved with, separated with commas — e.g., particular projects, modules, etc. If there is a wiki page for your project, be sure to use the [[Wiki Page Name]] syntax to make a link. For external links, using single brackets — e.g. [http://myprojectsite.org My Project]. The user profile template expects multiple project references to be separated with commas.

email-username

Username of your e-mail address — e.g., if your e-mail address is kevin@example.com, then put kevin here

email-domain

Domain of your e-mail address — e.g., if your e-mail address is kevin@example.com, then put example.com here

contact

Any contact details (other than e-mail address) you wish to share (irc name, IM contact info, etc.), using commas between multiple entries. WARNING: use the email-username and email-domain parameters for your e-mail address to allow the wiki to obfuscate your e-mail address (entering your e-mail address directly onto web pages will invite spam.)

website

A link to your website. You can use single brackets to make an external link in the wiki — [http://google.com Google] will render as Google.

blog

A link to your blog. You can use single brackets to make an external link in the wiki — [http://someblog.com/myblog/ MyBlog] will render as MyBlog.

Example

Edit your wiki page and paste in the following text to generate a profile
like the one on the right. Of course, you'll want to fill in your own details...
(and use a prettier picture). All fields are optional.

{{user_profile|
|name=Burke Mamlin
|photo=[[Image:Burke-head.gif|100px]]
|location=Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
|timezone=Eastern Time (UTC-4)
|profession=Physician / Programmer
|school=
|degree=180 (just ask Ben or Paul)
|major=
|superlative=Can name the weekday for any date
|quote="I hate quotations" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
|skills=Few
|focus=OpenMRS Management
|projects=OpenMRS,Logic
|email-username=burke
|email-domain=openmrs.org
|contact=burke ([irc://irc.freenode.net IRC]),
bmamlin ([[w:Skype|Skype]])
|office-hours=9a-6p ET (1p-10p UTC)
|website=[http://burkeware.com burkeware.com]
}}