Interested in programming-related leadership roles

[burke (Burke Mamlin)]

Continuing the discussion from OpenMRS Leadership Strategy Meeting 2018-05-03:

@mozzy

well… it wud be better if i had first known the available options…but am more intrested in programing -related leadership roles …since my intrest is to improve on my coding skills… i do java, spring, hibenate , sql …and some front end languages… i would want a role related to that, so that i also improve on my programing expierience especiall in enterprise programming.

but i can humbly take on any other role available. am flexible. i just need to choose from the available options. its my pleasure to work with u here .

@mozzy, have you glanced at the Operation Plan for 2018? There are several technical tasks that could use leadership/ownership to move them forward. For example:

• Defining concurrency limitations
  • Using an open source load tester to come up with a repeatable (preferably automated) method for estimating the maximum number of concurrent users supported by (1) Reference Application UI and (2) Platform’s REST API. Doesn’t need to be exact, but reliable enough to give the community reasonable expectations on what load OpenMRS can tolerate.
• Defining content limitations
  • Come up with a repeatable (preferably automated) way to push OpenMRS to failure with content (patients, encounters, obs). Doesn’t need to be exact, but reliable enough to give the community a reasonable expectation of how big OpenMRS can grow.
• Automated testing of installation and upgrading
  • Building CI projects to test the installation process (i.e., testing deployment) and to test the upgrade process (i.e., ensuring upgrade from prior version works)

There are also other roles/opportunities that could benefit from having someone own/lead them. For example, when we brainstormed community roles year ago, we came up with several software engineering roles. Some of these are still relevant:

• Web Services Lead
• Database Lead
• SDK Lead (@raff had been owning this, but changed jobs and I’m not sure if he still is planning or able to lead it)
• Specific feature lead (feature of Platform or Refapp)
• …

Other places we could use ownership/leadership in development:

• Helping the Andela team with Java mentorship or programming
• Serving as a business analyst for the community (we could definitely benefit from more people taking on business analyst tasks for the community)
• Helping review pull requests and/or helping streamline our pull request review process (clear goals, defining/automating metrics to know if we’re meeting those goals, and growing the number of community developers productively contributing to code reviews)

If none of these are of interest, I’m sure there are other opportunities we could find.

Cheers,

-Burke

[mozzy (Moses Mutesasira)]

thx @burke , i can take on the one of the following

• webservices lead

• Database Lead

• specific feature lead in the platform

• or helping the Andela team with java mentorship

i can gladly take on any of the above depending on where i can be more useful …thx. waitng for your reply

[suthagar23 (Suthagar Kailayapathy)]

Thanks @burke for the information.

I am able to manage one of those roles along with my regular activities and I’m very happy to make this opportunity to travel with OpenMRS. I would like to take some part in the Web Services or other Specific feature opportunities.

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Helping the Andela team with Java mentorship or programming

AFAIK @dkayiwa is already doing a massive mentorship to them, and I can also join with him to help them for the Java Mentorship as well as the Angular or React Mentorship.

Regards,