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If you are a student or young professional, you need practical experience to show off your skills to future employers. While we do not provide certificates, your publicly visible code repositories on GitHub or your contributions to our wiki will provide ample proof of your achievements. You can, of course, choose to work under an alias.
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As an independent developer:
You want to code. Perhaps you were contracted to add a feature for a specific health financing organization. Maybe you are simply interested, or have an idea you would like to try out that you think might be useful for the community. There is no need to integrate further into the community. Just remember that openIMIS is published under a copy-left license that requests you to feed back your code into the general code base. Click here to get started.
As a member of the Developers Committee:
Of course we would encourage you to stay connected to the community and participate in regular discussions. That would be helpful for your own work, but would also feed new ideas into the community. Become part of the strategic decisions that are shaping the future path of openIMIS. Click here to get started.
For more on how you can engage with the openIMIS community as a developer, please visit our wiki. You can also contact us here.
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can I contribute?
Share your thoughts!
In the openIMIS Service Desk you can get qualified advice from a member of the openIMIS Product Group within a reasonable timeframe. Generally it's a good idea to post any question or suggestion through a formal request as this is easier for us to follow it up.
Contribute your ideas!
Do you have a good idea for a new feature or an urgent need to adapt an existing feature to the situation in your organisation? In the openIMIS Service Desk you can propose new features to a member of the openIMIS Product Group. Try to explain the background and the use case as precisely as possible in a formal feature request. You can even upload screenshots, drawings or concept papers.
Contribute quality!
Nobody is perfect - neither is the openIMIS software. In the openIMIS Service Desk you can report bugs to a member of the openIMIS Product Group. Try to explain as precise as possible what you observed and how you got there in a bug report. Try to upload screenshots of the situation. Please do not post data from real people!
Contribute code!
All our source code is stored in git hub repositories. If you feel that you have a more efficient way of doing things or you have some really nice features to add, you might want to contribute directly to the code base of openIMIS.
Create your own fork GitHub repositories and send a pull request to the Developers Committee.
Contribute documentation!
The official openIMIS documentation is released on readthedocs.io in sync with the openIMIS software releases. Documenting software is quite a lot of work. If you are into proofreading or technical writing, you might enjoy contributing directly to the documentation. Native speakers in all available languages are especially needed!
Edit the source documents on GitHub
Edit knowledge bits in the openIMIS knowledge Base
Contribute translations!
openIMIS can be customised to several languages without any change in the program code. This means that you can create an openIMIS version for your own country in a relatively short time. If there is already a version in your language, you are still invited to participate in proofreading and in the discussions of the best way to name health financing and social protection terminology in your language.
Check the wiki page about the Translation Management platform to see where you can contribute best.
Contribute assistance!
In the openIMIS Service Desk, members of the openIMIS Product Group are on their guard to actively support the community with practical advice and troubleshooting. If you have a bit of experience with the openIMIS software - be it as a user, implementer or developer - you are most welcome to help out with the frontline support.
Check out the issue queue and see where you can chip in (you need an Atlassian account for this).
How do I get started?
As an independent developer:
If you feel that you need to change code for your own purposes or you have a useful contribution to make, download the code from the git hub GitHub repositories and start programming away.You might want to follow the technical discussions in the Product Roadmap to see that your ideas are in line with what the Developers Committee is planning to do.
If you like what you have done, upload your code and create a pull request to get your code included into the masters master version.
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As a member of the
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Developers Committee
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do everything an independent developer would do.
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If coding is for you and you want to contribute to the openIMIS software of openIMIS on a regular basis, you might want to join the Developers Committee. Just contact someone from the committee and ask about the conditions for joining. Actually there arn't any. Be aware though, that currently most of the members are under some sort of a contract with the openIMIS Initiative - kindly respect that they have precise targets which have to be accomplished, which is the technical arm of the openIMIS Product Group. This allows you to stay connected to the community and to become part of the strategic decisions that are shaping the future path of openIMIS.
For more on how you can engage with the openIMIS community as a developer, please visit our wiki.