Design Forum

What is Design Forum?

OpenMRS Design Forums are one-hour calls twice each week for the purpose of discussing any design-related issues within the OpenMRS Community.  The calls are open to anyone and routinely attended by experienced developers and clinical informatics specialists. We encourage all members of the community to join our design calls that are of interest and helpful to them. The design call is apt at several stages of design:

  • At the start of a design process, bring your ideas for review by the broader community to get validation of your ideas and some feedback on directions to go.
  • In the middle of a project, share your prototypes and get feedback from experienced developers and clinicians in a higher bandwidth format than email or IRC.
  • When you encounter important decision points and see a few choices, share some brief background and your options and get helpmaking the decision.

How do you get your topic on a Design Forum agenda?


Simply reply post your proposed topic at om.rs/designtime. Please try to include these 4 pieces of information:

  1. Title. Short descriptive title for agenda item.
  2. Description. Context for people who may not be directly involved in the work. Include links to JIRA issue(s), Talk discussion(s), wiki page(s), or other relevant resources for the discussion. It’s also helpful to summarize your specific goals for the discussion (what question(s) you are trying to answer).
  3. Required attendee(s). Who you believe must join the call for it to be productive. We’ll use this to schedule the call when they can join.
  4. Desired timing. Next available slot? Or is there a specific design forum you’d like to target.

When are the Meetings to be held

Mondays 4:00pm-5:00pm UTC (excluding OpenMRS holidays). See UTC translated to other time zones.

Wednesdays from 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Time (excluding OpenMRS holidays, and changing with US Daylight Saving Time). Translate US Eastern Time to other time zones.

 

How to Join ?

Community meetings and events use one of two conferencing tools: Uberconference or Zoom. Below is general information and helpful hints for connecting to a conference call or meeting.


OpenMRS Meetings

Be Prepared for Your Meeting

  • Confirm the conference connection information for your meeting. This information can be found in the meeting or event details on our OpenMRS Calendar, weekly What's Happening Talk post, and on a squad or team's Wiki page.
  • Consider connecting via telephone/VoIP for best audio quality.
  • If connecting via computer, be sure your network has the audio/video bandwidth you need.
  • Before attending or presenting via computer, try the web browser microphone/speaker test.
  • Read the UberConference support pages for troubleshooting or contact them in case of problems.

Be Considerate of Others

  • Please be on time for your meeting, and end on time.
  • Be sure to confirm (and add) your meeting time on the Community Meeting Calendar to ensure others aren't using the service at the same time.
  • Please don't schedule meetings "back to back". Allow time for one meeting to wrap up before the next meeting begins.

Hints for using Zoom:

  • Use the Zoom short link to join a call quickly
  • If you are ever prompted for a passcode, simply respond with "1"
  • If you are directed to the “Indiana University Login” page, try to Join a Meeting - Zoom, put in the meeting code (available in the event detail on our calendar), and then using our passcode when prompted. You can also try using the Zoom app on your mobile or desktop.

Hints for using Uberconference calls:

  • We have one, shared Uberconference number. Please check our calendar to make sure the Uberconference link is available before scheduling a call using Uberconference.
  • The conference line is a shared resource for our community's use in our open source projects. Please do not use it for 3rd-party or personal meetings.
  • Uberconference currently does not support screen share. If you plan to share screens and want to record the screen share, consider using Zoom instead. 

Notes / Minutes

2019

January 

  • 02 - OPEN FORUM
  • 07 - OPEN FORUM
  • 09 - OPEN FORUM
  • 14 - OPEN FORUM
  • 16 - OPEN FORUM
  • 21 - CANCELLED - HOLIDAY
  • 23 - Architecture proposal: Modules and Verticals
  • 28 - OPEN FORUM
  • 30 - OPEN FORUM


 2018

January

  • 01 (CANCELLED - OpenMRS Holiday)
  • 03
  • 08
  • 10
  • 15 (CANCELLED - OpenMRS Holiday)
  • 17 - Module to collect data from user-related forms
  • 22
  • 24
  • 29 - Refactoring RefApp UI to use Javascript+REST to promote greater collaboration
  • 31

February

  • 05
  • 07 - DHIS2 Integration
  • 12 - DHIS2 Integration
  • 14 - OPEN FORUM
  • 19 - (CANCELLED - OpenMRS Holiday)
  • 21  - Dictionary Mgmt for OpenMRS using OCL
  • 26 - OPEN FORUM
  • 28 - DHIS2 Integration

March

    • 05 - DHIS2 Integration
    • 07 - OPEN FORUM
    • 12 - Dictionary Mgmt for OpenMRS using OCL (Follow up from 2/21)
    • 14 - Implementing LDAP support in atlas 3.0 project
    • 19 - Dictionary Mgmt for OpenMRS using OCL
    • 21 - OPEN FORUM
    • 26 - OCL for OpenMRS
    • 28 - Review Moving Event Module Logic to Event Module

April

  • 02 - Reference Application 2.8
  • 04 - OPEN FORUM
  • 09 - Reference Application 2.8
  • 11 - Condition List for Reference Application
  • 16 - OCL for OpenMRS
  • 18 - UI Dev Conventions
  • 23 - Data Warehousing and Analytics
  • 25 - OPEN FORUM
  • 30 - Data Warehousing and Analytics

May

  • 02 - mdsbuilder
  • 07 - Adding Order Status for Orders
  • 09 - OPEN FORUM
  • 14 - OPEN FORUM
  • 16 - OPEN FORUM
  • 21 - OPEN FORUM
  • 23 - OPEN FORUM
  • 28 (CANCELLED - OpenMRS Holiday)
  • 30 - OPEN FORUM

June

July

  • 02 - Patient Queuing in OpenMRS
  • 04 (CANCELLED - OpenMRS Holiday)
  • 09 - OPEN FORUM
  • 11 - OPEN FORUM
  • 16 - OPEN FORUM
  • 18 - Order Entry UI
  • 23 - OPEN FORUM
  • 25 - Oncology Module
  • 30 - AMPATH Form Builder

August

  • 01 - OPEN FORUM
  • 06 - OPEN FORUM
  • 08 - OPEN FORUM
  • 13 - OPEN FORUM
  • 15 - Adding end-to-end test automation to OpenMRS applications
  • 20 - OPEN FORUM
  • 22 - OPEN FORUM
  • 27 - GSoC After Action Review
  • 29 - OPEN FORUM

September

  • 03 (CANCELLED - OpenMRS Holiday)
  • 05 - OPEN FORUM
  • 10 - OPEN FORUM
  • 12More patientSearch filters such as age and gender
  • 17 - How do we define an “active” order as a search parameter for the Order service?
  • 19 - OPEN FORUM
  • 24 - OPEN FORUM
  • 26 - Improving on Memory Management in the mergepatientdata module
October

November

  • 05 - OPEN FORUM
  • 07 - OPEN FORUM
  • 12 - OPEN FORUM
  • 14 - OPEN FORUM
  • 19 - OPEN FORUM
  • 21 - OPEN FORUM
  • 26 - OPEN FORUM
  • 28 - OPEN FORUM

December

  • 03 & 05 (CANCELLED OMRS18)
  • 10 - OPEN FORUM
  • 12 - OPEN FORUM
  • 17 - OPEN FORUM
  • 19 - OPEN FORUM
  • 24 - CANCELLED
  • 31 - CANCELLED


 2017

January 

February

March

April

May

June 

July: 

Aug: 

Sep:

Oct:  

  • 02  - Loading OWAs programmatically & Encounter Diagnoses follow-up
  • 04 - Review Andela Demos
  • 09 - Cancelled - OpenMRS Holiday
  • 11 - Unveiling/Unretiring via REST (Darius Jazayeri)
  • 16 - OPEN FORUM
  • 18 - OPEN FORUM
  • 23 - OPEN FORUM
  • 25 - OPEN FORUM
  • 30 - OPEN FORUM

Nov:

  • 06 - OPEN FORUM
  • 08 - Patient Program "voidLastState" object (Mark Goodrich)
  • 13  - Open Concept Lab (OCL): current status and direction (Jonathan Payneraff)
  • 15  - OPEN FORUM
  • 20  - OPEN FORUM
  • 22  - OPEN FORUM
  • 27  - OPEN FORUM
  • 29  - OPEN FORUM

Dec:

  • 04 - JIRA issues to consider for backporting for Platform 2.1.2
  • 06 - OPEN FORUM
  • 11 - OPEN FORUM
  • 13 - OPEN FORUM 
  • 18 - OPEN FORUM
  • 20 - OPEN FORUM 
  • 25 - CANCELLED - OpenMRS Holiday
  • 27 - OPEN FORUM
 2016

 

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