Raxa JSS EMR is accepted to participate in Google Summer of Code™ in 2012! This is a great opportunity to help create our point-of-care system, based on projects like OpenMRS and MoTech, that will serve patients at JSS and around the world.
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If you are an active participant in the Raxa JSS EMR community and would like to be a mentor for 2012, please edit this page and add your name to the list below. Potential mentors should take some time to read the GSoC Mentoring Manual.
- Surajit Nundy
- Saptarshi Purkayastha (Unlicensed)
- r.friedman
- Nathan Leiby
- Judy Wawira
- Greg Kelleher
- Daniel Pepper
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- Become familiar with the Raxa JSS EMR and your project before the start date.
- Complete a short "progress report" each week to help stay on schedule.
- Commit early. Commit often. This is an important value in our open source community - read why.
- Join the interns mailing list. (We'll help you with this.)
- You are now part of our developer community. We want you to feel like part of the team, so we hope you will:
- Have technical discussions on the Contributors Google Group
- Ask questions (the smart way) if you get stuck.
- Participate in our Weekly meetings via phone or Skype.
- Give one or more project presentations during those weekly meetings so we can see the cool stuff you're making.
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- You will have fun!
- You will learn how to work within an open source project–a new project helping people save lives around the world.
- You will have dedicated time (4-5 hours each week) with an experienced mentor, and will have a backup mentor for questions or problems.
- Our community will do its best to answer your questions and help you (make sure to ask questions the smart way).
- The Summer of Code program leaders (both at Raxa JSS EMR and Google) will be available if any problems arise between students and mentors.
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- Help your student be successful. Commit to spending a minimum of 4-5 hours each week with your student answering questions, giving advice, working together, and evaluating his or her progress.
- Complete a short "progress report" each week to help stay on schedule and catch potential problems early.
- Read the GSoC Mentoring Manual and ask questions if you have them.
- Reach out to the Summer of Code project leaders if you have questions or concerns.
- Have fun and work hard! The highest-performing mentors will get an expenses-paid trip to Google's headquarters in October to geek out with fellow mentors from other open source projects.
Program Timeline
We will follow the official Google timeline for the program. In summary:
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- Contact your mentor immediately. Make a plan to communicate with them regularly - at minimum, once each week. Determine the best way to communicate (e-mail, IRC, IM, Skype, telephone, etc.).
- Read Getting Started Guide, and ask others in the community if you have questions. If you ask questions the smart way, you'll get better responses.
- Get a development environment installed and running.
- Review our Conventions page.
- Get an RaxaEmr ID if you don't have one already. Create a user profile page.
- Set up a blog for GSoC. Send the URL to raxa.jss.emr@gmail.com. If you don't have a blog yet, you can create one for free at WordPress.com or Blogger.com.
- Browse the current Raxa JSS EMR (GitHub (Front-end), Svn (Back-end)) code specific to your project.
- Browse other GSoC organizations and the pages they have for their students. We want to be the best!
- Review the requirements for your project together with your mentor.
- Submit a formal written proposal to your mentor.
- Agree on final requirements with your mentor.
- Develop a project schedule (timeline) with your mentor.
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- If possible, join the Raxa-JSS Meetings every Sunday. You can participate by telephone or Skype. The 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month will be dedicated to Summer of Code, so make every effort to attend to listen to your fellow students' presentations (see the next section for details).
- We use JIRA as a tool for issue tracking and project management.
- Tips for using e-mail:
- If you have a highly specific question, contact your mentor.
- Technical discussions, ideas, and requests for feedback should be sent to the entire community on the mailing list.
- The Interns mailing list is for accepted students to discuss SoC administrative issues. This list should not be used for technical discussions.
- Skype or telephone — sometimes a short discussion can get ideas across much more efficiently
- Google Docs — an excellent tool for sharing and collaborating in real time on documents or spreadsheets
- Use the Raxa EMR wiki often:
- Be sure to make a user profile page.
- Every project should have a Raxa JSS EMR wiki page where you document your project, progress, technical details, show mock ups, etc.
- Scheduling tools:
- WorldTimeBuddy.com — to clarify/coordinate times around the world
- Doodle.ch — to coordinate meeting times for larger groups
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- If you are interested in participating in Summer of Code as a mentor or a student this year and have further questions that aren't answered here, please contact Daniel Pepper.