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Reorganizing the OpenMRS weekly calls

Our community has grown and evolved significantly over the years, and sometimes we need to reorganize the way we do things. Based on feedback from OpenMRS community members we’ve gone back to the drawing board and put together a slate of OpenMRS-related calls that should make our community more effective, and improve collaborations in the

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Announcing OpenMRS Answers

We’re proud to announce OpenMRS Answers, a new resource to get support in the OpenMRS community. Check it out now: https://answers.openmrs.org/ The Answers service works in cooperation with other OpenMRS support resources including our mailing lists and wiki, to serve as a clearinghouse for people to ask questions about using or developing with OpenMRS. Along

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Now available: OpenMRS 1.8.2

I’m pleased to announce the availability of OpenMRS 1.8.2. In this minor release,  below are the bugs that were fixed with one major one: (Major) A fix to display the last 3 encounters  for a patient on the form entry tab on the patient dashboard which was broken. The concept statistics page was also fixed for

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Meet our Summer of Code 2011 Students

The OpenMRS community is pleased to announce that we will have 16 smart and talented university students working with us over the next several months as part of Google Summer of Code 2011. In alphabetical order by first name, they are: Balachandiran Ajanthan Christopher Zakian Emanuel Claesson Gaurav Paliwal Gauthami Pingili Goutham Vasireddi Jelena Skorucak

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Announcing Summer of Code 2011

Write code. Save lives. The OpenMRS community is pleased to announce that it has been selected to participate as a mentoring organization for a 5th year in Google Summer of Code™. We’ve enjoyed participating in this great program in the last 4 years and are even more excited about the projects and mentors we have available this year.

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OpenMRS Road Map Update

The OpenMRS leadership team met in Boston earlier this month to review OpenMRS priorities. Before meeting, we asked for your feedback on OpenMRS priorities to help guide the road map over the next year. Your feedback really helped inform our discussion and focus our priorities. We heard very clear priorities for improving existing functionality and

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OpenMRS Spotlight – Jonathan Payne, D-Tree International

How is OpenMRS being implemented in India? What !?! you can run a full-instance of OpenMRS on the Android? Find out how recent Harvard School of Public Health graduate Jon Payne is travelling the world and leading new projects with D-Tree International. In this video interview, OpenMRS community volunteer Glen McCallum talks to Jonathan Payne

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Flowsheet Code Jam in Chennai, India

Here’s a shout out to our friends at ThoughtWorks. They had a code jam on the OpenMRS Flowsheet Module a few weeks ago and knocked out over half a dozen key tickets in a single day as well as making progress on others. The Flowsheet Module is being installed into OpenMRS at AMPATH in Kenya

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OpenMRS 1.8.0 Beta Released

I’m glad to announce that OpenMRS 1.8.0 beta is now available! You can download it here. It is faster and optimized for better performance than the prior releases in several ways, since our main focus for this release was to address the performance bottlenecks in the core application and a couple of modules as the

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Developer Talk: Finding Unused Message Keys

Ben Wolfe is a core developer for OpenMRS. This information has been cross-posted from his blog. Over time the messages in our Spring message.properties files grow stale. When a developer updates/changes code he/she doesn’t necessarily go to the messages.properties and remove all the keys that they removed from code. This has no detrimental effect on

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