We broke a GSOC record this year! 🏆

[grace (Grace Potma)]

Dear Community, Today I want to celebrate @beryl and @jayasanka - their teamwork on this year’s GSOC has led to record-breaking applicant numbers: 183 applications!!

Last year at the GSOC conference (“Mentors Summit”) in Silicon Valley, other orgs couldn’t believe that we’d had as many as 60 applicants. Just look at us now

A HUGE thank you to everyone who is helping in OpenMRS’ GSOC 2025, as mentors and more - we can’t do it without all of you! E.g. thinking of our mentors this year @bawanthathilan @wikumc @dkayiwa @manojll @nethmi @ibacher @samuel34 @dkigen @cioan @chibongho1 @mherman22 @lumuchris256 @anjisvj @vasharma05 @jnsereko and anyone else I may have accidentally missed!

And of course, special thanks to our applicants: We are touched that out of the 200 organizations participating in GSOC this year, you chose OpenMRS.

If you haven’t already seen the amazing playlist of project podcasts/videos Jayasanka and Beryl made, you can find that here:

And of course, for all other things GSOC2025 related, go to: https://om.rs/gsoc2025

[wodpachua (Olara Moses)]

Ta-daaaaaa! to @jayasanka and @beryl

Awesome work with the Administration & Powerful Mobilization Very creative

Keep rocking

[akanter (Andrew Kanter)]

And many thanks to everyone who is going to review and evaluate all those applications! We need more mentors!

[bawanthathilan (Bawantha Rathnayaka)]

I’m truly honored to be part of such an incredible community. Huge congratulations to @beryl and @jayasanka for the amazing work. 183 applications is a remarkable achievement!

[jayasanka (Jayasanka Weerasinghe)]

Thanks a lot, Grace! Super excited to see how far we’ve come! Loved teaming up with @beryl and big shoutout to mentors and everyone supporting GSOC at OpenMRS this year. Special thanks to @chibongho1 for the massive help with filtering out proposals..

And to the applicants… thank you for trusting us with your journey. Let’s make GSOC 2025 amazing!