Welcome! Please introduce yourself

I forget to Introduce my self in this thread :smile: :wink:

Hello Everyone I am Vineet Kumar from India, an undergraduate student who is doing Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, BHU, Varanasi.

I am currently doing Google Summer of Code Internship with Open Medical Record Systems. Here’s my blog: https://vineetgsocer2014.wordpress.com And here is the project I am working : https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-mysqletl

Cheers :smile:

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Hello everybody,

my name is Vaclav (vencik in the cyberspace) and I’ve just recently started to contribute to OpenMRS.

I’ve obtained my Master’s degree in Informatics from Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic in 2003. I have more than 10 years of practice as software developer, most of it in telecommunication systems (i.e. low-level, C/C++ coding, async. socket communication) on UNIX and especially Linux platforms. I’ve also worked on a web-based management system for such server solutions; that was however written in Perl (using Template module for generation of the content). Java is quite new for me (although adaptation from C++ and Perl to Java is quite simple).

I have strong affiliation to FOSS community; I’ve worked as senior developer for the Network UPS Tools project for about a year while part of the open-source team at my previous job; I also maintain a temporary branch of psmouse-dkms-alpsv7 Linux ALPS TP sub-driver (until it gets to kernel) and try to find at least a bit of time to work on my own free software project called ctx-fryer (a “compiler compiler”). You’ll find these at https://github.com/vencik

A couple of months ago, I was hired as open-source developer by Merck and started to work on OpenMRS, for the company is very interested in the system. Hope I can help a bit.

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Hi!

I’m Hannah Downey, and I’m a designer. I mostly design email campaigns these days, but I’ve also done some website and mobile design in the past.

But all of that’s just a day job :slight_smile: I favor my hobbies and interests… like… hiking, biking, game nights, listening to piano and acoustic guitar, the sky, modularity, clarity, transparency, metaphors, rain, guacamole, breakfast, the movie You’ve Got Mail, canvas, wood, the color plum, free-choice learning, tutoring, laughing really hard, and being the wife of your beloved Community Manager @michael.

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Hi, I am Ronald Munjoma, based in Harare, Zimbabwe. I have a keen interest in Free Open source and contribute to a number of open source projects mainly providing technical and user support on the mailing lists.

I have just applied as a volunteer to the Infrastructure team.

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Hey all, I am Akshay, an undergrad student, interested in working for opensource projects, In my previous contributions to other projects I conducted workshops and spread the word about open source and its importance,These days I’m more inclined towards developing. Have a great day :smile:

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Hey everyone,

It’s so wonderful to have found you. My name is Asia and I’m a pre-med student looking to spend a gap year exploring a design for an EHR that is culturally appropriate and medically specified to people living with ionizing-radiation exposure. I hope openMRS is just what I need to make this dream a reality.

Talk more soon,

Asia

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Hello, my name Dicky, I’m from Indonesia… Glad to know Open MRS Community

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Yay welcome to the community fellow Indonesian!

Hi you guys, i am Tuan Dung. I am starting to develop OpenMrs + Radiology module. Have good working day every once :smile:

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Hey everyone! I’m Manik Singh, from Chandigarh, India. I’m an undergrad in Computer Engineering ( although I am not fond of the curriculum at my university :frowning: ). I usually find time for basketball in the evenings, followed by late night coding or simply doing nothing with my friends.

I love listening to rock, and try to play the guitar at least as good as 20% like the professional artists. On the internet, when I’m not committed to the ‘regular’ surfing, I’ll usually browse for talks by influential people or random funny videos.

I find great content in participating in activities and causes, within my domain, where I can help others. I spent my last two years, regularly teaching English and its practical knowledge to underprivileged kids, under ‘Make a Difference’.

I’ve exhausted two years of college, without sharpening my coding skills. However, I’ve set a slingshot target to improve my Java coding, by gaining experience in any and every opportunity which I feel will help me in every aspect.

Initially, I wanted to start with my own medical application project, but the inception of each idea seemed very daunting. I stumbled across OpenMRS on the internet, and discovered how similar it seems to my ideas. I believe that developing for OpenMRS will allow me to sharpen my coding skills, and also make the software even more resourceful and intuitive for the users.

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Right. I do hope this is the right place to fulfil the ‘Please introduce yourself’ recommendation. In case anybody else in the future is as confused as I am now. … the way to introduce yourself is to hit the ‘Reply’ button at the bottom of the chain against ‘Welcome - please introduce yourself’.

Now that is out of the way … me? I’m just an aged programmer who wrote a bit of code for a while, and is trying to get his hand in again.

What tools/technologies have I used? Palm Conduit SDK, Windows SDK, some Java EE on Forte, NB, and MyEclipse. This was, unfortunately, before the advent of ORM tools - I’m not at all familiar with Hibernate … so on, and so forth.

Why am I contributing/interested in OpenMRS? Sitting at a computer for large intervals hurts my eyes. Like I mentioned earlier, I’m trying to get my hand in again … and the few years of programming under my belt will stand me in good stead when it comes to debugging stuff. Besides (+; an Open Source project looks good on One’s resume … and OpenMRS carries it’s own weight.

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Hi everyone, I am Sri Harsha Pamu. I am a first year graduate student at IlT, Chicago majoring in computer science with Artificial Intelligence as my research focus. I was a google summer of code student at OpenMRS in 2012. I worked on Metadata Repository under the mentorship of @raff and @gmccallum. I really enjoyed contributing to OpenMRS. I am glad to be a part of the community. My hobbies are mountain biking and playing Chess.

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Hello Boniface Wabuti here. Been working with OpenMRS since 2006. I like the community sharing forums, meetings, and list conversations. It has turned globe into one small market to meet share and improve ideas on health care systems. I just love it. Happy to have you all.

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Hi everyone, I’m John from Nigeria, I’m new to OpenMRS and have had a really rough start to this great software for the health industry.

I will be pleased if someone will guide on some of the issues I have been having with the software. I’d be immensely grateful.

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Hi, I’m Joe Dixon (Liberian-American) living in Georgia, USA. I’ve an IT background and MS in Medical Informatics. I came to know OpenEMR about three years ago when I began a feasibility study on the implementation of EMR in Liberia. Since then, I’ve been learning open-source technology and following the track to becoming an Implementer and Champion. In that effort, I visited Liberia in 2013 to conduct a Needs Assessment of the John F. Kennedy Medical Center and my own readiness. Certainly, this Ebola outbreak has exposed the country’s unpreparedness in many areas including public health and realization of some of our worst fears. It has also reenergized my willingness to not only join this team and fight, but to go in and serve. My gratitude to all of you for your continuous hard work in making this life-saving enterprise system available to resource-constraint countries. Without such effort, it would be highly improbable to develop, maintain, and implement such a costly system.

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My name is John Alade (aka JohnTheBeloved), I am currently a Software Developer in Nigeria , I have a BSc in Physiology , and hoping to have my MSc in Medical Informatics(which is a field I am very passionate about) soon. I know there is a lot in the Health Informatics field and would like to spend most if not all of my career in working with teams that help in development, management and maintenance of Efficient, Affordable and Effective E-health Technologies in Nigeria, Africa and the World as a whole. openmrs always fascinates me anytime I see how much work has been done and also the much work that is still being achieved. I would love to be part of the entire process from development to implementation as there is still much to be done.

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Hi folks,

I’m a Clinical Researcher at Oxford University in the UK. I’m working with a team at KEMRI in Kenya contributing to a project about using OpenMRS in hospitals. I’m also interested in using OpenMRS as a health informatics teaching tool.

Best wishes,

Chris

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Hi all, My name is Donald Ndizeye, DBA & Junior Project Manager, I’m Burundian and I’m really excite to be part of this community. It is my first experience with OpenMRS, actually we are trying to implement it in a Clinic at KIGUTU (in upcountry) and I presume it will be the first implementation here in Burundi in so far as this system has been used since a few years in neighboring countries Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda. I thank you in advance for your support and involvement of everyone in this community

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Hello, I am Diane Ineza, from Rwanda. am so excited to be part of OpenMRS. am completing my bachelor in computer network and system administration… this is great experience!

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Hi Everyone! I am very excited to be here :slight_smile: I am a software developer based in Mississauga, ON, Canada. My background and interest are C#, ASP.Net MVC, Web API, Angular JS and Xamarin. I am very new to Open Source projects. Any guide on where I can start contributing would be much appreciated.

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