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Welcome to OpenMRS! This guide will walk you through the steps to join the OpenMRS community and set up your system for development. You will also find some links to other resources that will help you learn and contribute to the OpenMRS project.
OpenMRS is a volunteer based community. We welcome anyone who is willing to learn and contribute. To join the community, follow these steps:
Check the OpenMRS Calendar for events and team sessions that might interest you.
In addition to our Slack and OpenMRS Talk forum, we have many regular calls and virtual events to help contributors connect and learn together. These are optional and open for contributors to join. Some calls are weekly check-ins for specific project teams; others are more general. The community calendars are always up-to-date with upcoming calls and events. You can check the calendars in three ways:
5. Look for Active Project teams or topics that might interest you
Consider joining a team of OpenMRS contributors working together on interesting topics or projects. You can find active Team-Based Projects in the OpenMRS Community at: https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/projects/Active+Projects
6. Get edit privilege for wiki and issue tracker
Because of spammers, we must require this extra step before you can edit wiki pages or make any changes to JIRA tickets.
a. Create an account at OpenMRS helpdesk.
b. In the Summary text box, state that you would like to have edit access to wiki and JIRA.
c. Submit the helpdesk request.
Based on your experience as an OpenMRS developer, you will be assigned a developer stage, from dev/1 up to dev/5, with increasing responsibilities and privileges.
To learn more, visit OpenMRS Developer Stages.
You can start by earning the /dev/null badge. When you're ready, take the quiz to earn /dev/1.There is no limit on how many times you can take the quiz.
Git and GitHub work together so that the changes you make to the codes are tracked and incorporated correctly into OpenMRS code repositories. Follow the instructions below to sign up to GitHub and install GIt on your system.
To do development work for OpenMRS, you need to configure your system according the instructions below:
To learn more about setting up and working with your development environment, follow the Step-by-Step Installation for Developers and How To Setup And Use Your IDE.
See om.rs/o3docs
OpenMRS SDK makes the process of creating and deploying an OpenMRS module very simple. Follow this instruction to create your first OpenMRS module.
Now that you’ve successfully set up your development environment, you can start to contribute to OpenMRS. Follow the Contribute as a Developer guide here:
Start Contributing to OpenMRS: Intro tickets & more
OpenMRS wiki is the main resource where the community shares knowledge and documents the development process. Below is a list of wiki pages that can be useful for you to learn more about OpenMRS.
As a community member, you can help to improve the wiki pages by writing new documentation, updating the existing ones or simply pointing out the errors and issues in the documents.