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Joining the openIMIS initiative brings a number of advantages, both for us and for you:
Earn money
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A number of international organisations fund software development for global goods. Keep monitoring our Opportunities Page to keep up with new funding opportunities. Having a strong community behind you will also help you uncover your own funding opportunities.
Upgrade your developer skills
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We are constantly monitoring current trends and standards in IT to choose the most robust frameworks for the openIMIS core. Learn from others with more experience and profit from a culture of sharing.
Be part of the global eHealth and Social Protection community
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The openIMIS Initiative works closely with other international organisations and governments to integrate and improve existing eHealth and Social Protection infrastructures. Acquire experience in interoperability standards like HL7 FHIR and learn about other global goods in the eHealth
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and Social Protection ecosystems.
Get a practical taste of the health financing and social protection business.
openIMIS comes from the heart of real-world health financing and social protection scenarios. Given the increasing global importance of universal health coverage and universal social protection, openIMIS has become THE open-source tool for anyone seeking to implement these programs.
Brush up your CV
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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.
Have some fun! We are nice people, by the way ...
How to join?
As an independent developer:
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For more on how you can engage with the openIMIS community as a developer, please visit our wiki. You can also contact us here.
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 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 version.
... as a member of the global openIMIS Developers Committee
do everything an independent developer would do.
if coding is for you and you want to contribute to the 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.