Date

19 March 2009

In Attendance

• Paul Biondich
• Mike Seaton
• Ben Wolfe
• Sam Mbugua
• Brian McKown
• Darius Jazayeri

Agenda

• GSoC Mentors
• GSoC Projects
• Maitenance of projects.openmrs.org
• OIP's involvement in this summer's internships
• Mobile / Android updates
• Driving the DevStudio into broad usage

Minutes

• Reaching out to potential students in implementing countries.
• Discussion of items in Talk__Projects and what projects may fit which mentors.
• Deciding on a project to mentor:
  • Should mentor a project that is mission critical to an implementation?
    • What are the costs if the student drops out?
  • Try to mentor a project that is relevant to what the mentor-developer needs for an implementation.
    • Projects that will satisfy an implementation's needs are good for implementations as well as good for the students' satisfaction.
  • TODO: Darius will reach out to Maro's about his mentorship in GSoC.
  • Darius is listed as WYSIWYG Designer. He will expound on it more.
    • Paul may edit this with regards to "Why this is important to medicine."
    • We should infuse the same on all descriptions.
  • We should put up any/all small/large potential projects
• Mentors (48 hours for final decision):
  • Dave - Global Property Types
  • Darius - WYSIWYG Designer
  • Mike - Daily Reports or Note Functionality
  • Paul - Longitudinal Data Review
  • Ben - Serialization Service
  • Brian - Audit Module (possibly Form Import/Export) will commit w/in 48 hrs.
  • Justin - Quartz Scheduler (or a scheduled e-mail capability) Ben will write up both project descriptions in Justin's absence.
  • Vibha & Tammy - Caching in the Logic Service (or performance improvements to logic service) Paul with inquire of them.
  • Shaun Grannis - Patient Matching
  • Daniel Kayiwa - possibly PHP-Java Bridge (making API more accessible for PHP) or Note Functionality
    • Paul & Darius will check with Christian about the similar codesnap project.
  • Saptarshi - Role Based Home Pages
  • Other Community Members as Mentors - Mocha Mobile; Odyssius Master-Patient Index Project; Frontline SMS Server for OpenMRS
• Projects in General
  • Habit of adding Project Proposals to Projects page all year around.
  • Have a curator for the Projects page to keep it updated.
• Make sure the Development Studio is ready for students to use this year as a starting pathway.