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OpenMRS August 2017 Volunteer of the Month: Stephen Senkomago Musoke

OpenMRS is delighted to announce Stephen Senkomago Musoke (@ssmusoke) as the Volunteer of the Month for August! As a community, we are all grateful for Stephen’s dedication and efforts. Thank you for all your contributions to OpenMRS @ssmusoke! Now let’s get into who Stephen is: About Stephen Senkomago Musoke Name: Stephen Senkomago Musoke OpenMRS ID:

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OpenMRS August 2017 Volunteer of the Month: Stephen Senkomago Musoke

OpenMRS is delighted to announce Stephen Senkomago Musoke (@ssmusoke) as the Volunteer of the Month for August! As a community, we are all grateful for Stephen’s dedication and efforts. Thank you for all your contributions to OpenMRS @ssmusoke! Now let’s get into who Stephen is: About Stephen Senkomago Musoke Name: Stephen Senkomago Musoke OpenMRS ID:

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OpenMRS July 2017 Volunteer of the Month: Robby O’Connor

OpenMRS is thrilled to announce Robby O’Connor (@r0bby) as the Volunteer of the Month for July! We are grateful for Robby’s work and dedication to the OpenMRS community. Thank you for your commitment to OpenMRS @r0bby! About Robby O’Connor Name: Robby O’Connor OpenMRS ID: r0bby Background I have a CS degree and have been doing

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Woot! Monitoring and alerting for our infrastructure, powered by Datadog

I’m proud to announce we now have comprehensive monitoring and alerting for the machines running our community services, thanks to Datadog!   In order to run community services (e.g. talk, issue tracker, wiki, OpenMRS ID, Continuous Integration, test servers, etc…) we have a fleet of around 20 machines maintained by infrastructure volunteers. Until now, we’ve had

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African Developers at Andela Committed to Improving OpenMRS’ Cohort Builder

Andela is a global software development organization with a mission for building programming capacity in Kenya and Nigeria.  They are recruiting some of the most talented developers in Africa, shaping them into technical and thought leaders, and places them as full-time distributed team members with companies that range from Microsoft and IBM to dozens of

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OpenMRS Volunteer of the Month: Shreyans Sheth

OpenMRS is happy to announce that the community has selected @bholagabbar as the Volunteer of the Month for June! We are really lucky to have Shreyans Sheth working with us. Thank you for your commitment to OpenMRS @bholagabbar! About Shreyans Sheth Name: Shreyans Sheth Online Handle: bholagabbar Background I’m a Computer Science and Engineering Major at VIT

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OpenMRS Volunteer of the Month: Shreyans Sheth

OpenMRS is happy to announce that the community has selected @bholagabbar as the Volunteer of the Month for June! We are really lucky to have Shreyans Sheth working with us. Thank you for your commitment to OpenMRS @bholagabbar! About Shreyans Sheth Name: Shreyans Sheth Online Handle: bholagabbar Background I’m a Computer Science and Engineering Major at VIT

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How OpenMRS is Used to Fight Malaria in Endemic Areas

OpenMRS is an electronic medical record platform designed to be used in low-resource environments where malaria and many other deadly diseases are endemic such as Uganda, where malaria is the primary cause of death in children. OpenMRS is currently used in over 1,800 medical clinics in 64 countries, providing the health information technology infrastructure that

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OpenMRS Reference Application 2.6.0 released!

The long awaited OpenMRS Reference Application 2.6.0 has been released. Its built on the OpenMRS Platform version 2.0.5 with several bug fixes and new modules included. Please see the Release Notes for more information. Thanks to everyone who was part of the team and to everyone who greatly participated to make sure that this release was

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Migrating OpenMRS to use Artifactory and Bintray

The OpenMRS maven repository, which is used daily by every OpenMRS developer, was migrated to Artifactory Cloud over a month ago. It was possible thanks to a generous contribution from the JFrog company letting us use a free cloud instance. Artifactory is a repository for various software artifacts, but we use it mainly for maven build

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