I wanted to make a couple of brief comments about the recent events in the global health industry, as I know there’s a lot of questions out there about what this means for OpenMRS.
OpenMRS has grown and thrived as an open community for over 20 years because of the deep, personal commitment from people all around the world to advance a simple mission: we believe collaborating on information systems can improve the health of emerging environments throughout the world.
Over the history of the project, we’ve been confronted by all kinds of changes and disruptions… and in my experience, in every one of those moments… OpenMRS comes out stronger, with deeper commitment and engagement from it’s participants. This time will be no different.
OpenMRS belongs to the community, and it is independent in all ways. We enjoy broad-based support and engagement from countries, organizations, philanthropies and individuals all around the world. It is more committed than ever to supporting those looking to advance better record keeping practices. In other words, with all of you this train will keep moving forward. 
Finally, I’d like to speak on a personal level as a US citizen, and perhaps on behalf of many of the US citizens that work within the OpenMRS community. Americans continue to be deeply committed to the OpenMRS mission, and we will continue to participate in solidarity alongside everyone. While the US might have work to do internally to balance it’s longer term financial future and reaffirm it’s social contract as a country, I can assure everyone that most all Americans remain committed to global health.
I’d like to invite others to weigh in here, and if there’s any questions I can answer for you personally, don’t hesitate to write here publicly or reach out to me directly.
I remain confident that OpenMRS’ best days are yet to come. 
