Are you an OpenMRS developer who would like to be paid for working on OpenMRS and get a chance to live in the San Francisco area temporarily later this year?
Stripe is sponsoring an “open source retreat” for developer contributors to open source projects from September 1st until December 1st, 2014.
Accepted applicants receive a grant of US $7,500 per month for housing and expenses, plus meals at the Stripe offices during the week, throughout the program.
If you’re interested in applying to work on OpenMRS during the program, please drop us a line at community■■■■■■■■■■■■ or reply to this thread. We’ll be happy to help you make your application as strong as possible.
From what I understand no one is discouraged from applying. However my best guess is that it will be very competitive, so anyone who is a new open source contributor will need to work hard to explain and convince Stripe that they should invest in that applicant. It would likely be important to explain your work (open source and otherwise) so far, and why this opportunity would create more value to the open source world than just the money and assistance that they’re providing.
It seems like they are rapidly answering questions submitted to them via the e-mail address posted in their original blog post above.