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A friendly reminder that LibreHealth mandates that all communication happens publicly either here on the forums or on our chat. Private messaging in any form between students and mentors is forbidden except under very li…

In case you haven’t heard, we are in GSOC 2020 !! and are pretty excited …Let’s use this thread for general information for students who are interested in Google Summer of Code 2020. You can view our current project ide…

Folks, We understand your eagerness, but you need to be patient. We’re in the midst of a global pandemic right now. Mentors are all volunteers. Please don’t ping us, we know you’re waiting, so just bear with us.

Hey All, The timeline has been modified as follows: February 20, 2020 : Organizations Announced March 16- 31 (18:00 UTC) : Student Application period March 31 - April 20, 2020 : Mentors review submitted student prop…

Advice for Students interested in Google Summer of Code… This is the time of year when a lot of questions coming to the discuss list are about “How do I get started?”". Here is some step by step advice that should he…

Look at this link for a great GSOC proposal - The wireframes seem to be missing but this can help guide you https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/projects/Patient+Narratives+Upload+-+Project+Proposal

If you want to be selected, you MUST join our chat for GSoC. It is unacceptable to just submit a proposal and not engage with us. Not working on any issues – submitting non-trivial pull requests means we automatically w…

Hi all, I reviewed some of the draft proposals we have received this year and I’m worried that some of you are not scoping your project correctly. Aim for 40 hours per week, if you go slightly over or slightly under, i…

Please refrain from using Sir/Madam when addressing mentors. It is an unnecessary level of formality within an Open Source community.

Hi there folks, You should be avoiding use of abbreviations. DO NOT type messages like: “plz tell me what is expected” DO type messages like: “Could you please tell me what is expected of us?” This looks unprofess…

You need to be able to work with Git if you wish to be successful with us for Google Summer of Code, this is a cool Electron application for learning Git: