Welcome to the OpenMRS project page! It represents our ongoing attempt to inform the community about potential opportunities for active collaboration and/or mentorship around the OpenMRS framework. For those developers looking for opportunities to help OpenMRS, this list may help you to match your interests/skills with the active needs of implementations throughout the developing world. Many projects also represent bits of ongoing core development work. To claim a project, contact one of the developers alongside the description.

New and Unclaimed Projects

This is where prospective interns (students) looking for projects — e.g., for Google Summer of Code or the OpenMRS Internship Program — should look.

Active Projects

These are projects that are under active development. Feel free to browse them and join their work!

Getting Started Projects

These are projects that are best suited for those interested in contributing to the actual source code of OpenMRS, but lack significant experience with Java, or want to get started slowly.

Roll Your Own Project

We've listed many idea for projects in the pages above, but we're more than happy to entertain other ideas if you've got 'em. The OpenMRS framework allows any developer to explore creative modifications of OpenMRS through our module API, using Spring's AOP. With modules, any developer can create a hot-swappable "plugin" for OpenMRS akin to Mozilla's add-ins.

• We encourage module developers to save their code within our subversion repository
• Modules are delivered to implementers through the Module Repository

Non-Coders

Are you interested in OpenMRS and have ideas for potential projects/improvements that are not listed here? We would love to hear about them. Want to translate OpenMRS into another language? Or help with testing/mocking a new user interface design?

Please consider joining our implementers mailing list (from our home page) or joining our forum and adding your suggestions to the water cooler forum. Take a look at the contribution page for more details.