Hi @zuzanna, Thanks for sharing all of this feedback.
Our documentation can be daunting - and we try to make it at least a little bit easier to get started as a developer by having a…Getting Started as a Developer Guide! Several community volunteers try share this guide with newcomers who introduce themselves in the Welcome! thread on a regular basis. We know that even that can be improved and this is one of the objectives of the GSoD project that @grace mentioned. Your or @sacull’s contributions to and feedback on the draft guide is more than welcome.
I’m curious to learn more about your process for orienting and guiding the interns. With GSoC, the community usually starts preparing several months ahead and it consists of several key steps, from brainstorming projects to recruiting mentors to reviewing student applications. If you look at the Talk posts tagged GSoC 2020, you can get an idea of the effort that our GSoC admins (and our PM team) put into this to make it an enjoyable and satisfactory experience for the students.
If you think that this is something that Sodevelo will organize again in the future, let’s talk more about how we can better coordinate and/or collaborate.
And if you’re interested in helping us create a course or materials for newbies, I encourage you to join or follow the work that the OpenMRS Academy Squad is doing.