We’re humbled to have received a large amount of requests to mentor for the program from individuals all over. However, we need to ensure that potential mentors are well versed with the OpenMRS development and guidelines so students are guided appropriately. Hence, we have laid down a few criteria that need to be fulfilled in order to mentor.
You are eligible to mentor GCI 2017 if you meet ANY ONE of the following criterion:
Former GCI Winner, Finalist or Mentor (not restricted to OpenMRS)
Former GSoC Student or Mentor (not restricted to OpenMRS)
Experienced/Active/Long term members involved with OpenMRS.
Of course, we do believe that you may not fall under any of these criteria and still wish to mentor. We’d love to have mentors coming in from other open source communities as mentioned as well as others with varied experience in Open Source. In this case, please reach out to us.
Here are the current individuals who have volunteered to mentor:
We’d absolutely love to have more individuals volunteer to mentor. Ideally, we’d like to have mentors distributed across timezones to ensure that student tasks are effectively reviewed within 24 hours. This is a crucial requirement for GCI which ensures that the program proceeds smoothly and students aren’t stalled for reviews.
Please leave a comment below if you’d like to mentor and name isn’t mentioned here (We’re missing plenty of awesome people yet!) and fill up this mentor form. I’ll keep updating the name to this list as we go. Looking forward to interacting with all of you during this season of GCI.
I was a GCI Finalist last year with OpenMRS and would love to be a mentor this year. I’m currently a /dev/1 and have worked quite a bit during the Android Client 2.5 and 2.6 releases. My timezone is EST.
With respect to the points @bholagabbar raised about been eligible to mentor GCI @OpenMRS, we have created a mentor application form. It’s a short 5 minutes form we hope all mentors can fill. This makes our job much easier as during the program we won’t be asking for your emails in private messages so we add you to the program and also this form will help us smoothly run the program as it will give us an idea of your different availabilities and qualifications. We won’t be taking emails via private messages. Everyone that will be added as a mentor must fill the form. I understand we are all busy people but 5 minutes should not be a problem if you plan to commit hours to mentor GCI. Here is a link to the form
I’m not sure if you need more mentors but I filled up a form! Accidentally wrote the wrong openMRS ID… Wrote ungkuzoe instead of uzanysa. Let me know if a mentor is still needed!
