Squad Showcase
Our monthly show-and-tell of collaborative work
Oct 29, 2020
About Squads
What: Small groups of individuals working on specific solutions to a shared problem(s).
Who: Anyone interested in contributing as a Dev, Architect, QA, Data Scientist, PM, BA, SME, etc.
How to join: See their project page, the weekly events page, and/or connect with the Squad lead.
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Jennifer Antilla
Director of Community
Help squads with set up, communications, operations.
Community Support for Squads
Christine Gichuki
QA Support Team Lead
Guidance on QA processes, tools, and resources.
Grace Potma
Director of Product
Product Management support.
Daniel Kayiwa
Lead Community Developer
Technical guidance and OpenMRS architecture context.
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Presenter guidelines
Respect time
5-10 mins/squad, questions at the end.
Help us see the big picture
Summarize why something is useful and how people can start using it.
Use visuals!
Pictures, screenshots, demos, and pre-recordings.
Attendee guidelines
Share the love & show your interest
Use Reactions and comments in Zoom to praise work that excites you.
Listen closely
Short questions at the end.
Share your feedback
Reach out to Squads later to share your thoughts.
Share your questions in the Zoom Chat.
We will try to get your questions answered by the squads afterwards, and publicly posted on Talk.
Questions
OMRS20 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE!
The 14th Annual Conference and the 1st to be held virtually. Join this year’s conference and share your experiences and best practices under the theme:
“Walking Together to Solve Emerging Health Challenges”
Dates: 30th November - 4th December 2020
Learn more: Here
Connect: Slack: #omrsconference | Weekly call: Tuesdays 3pm UTC �Tech Leads: @christine, @jennifer.
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Quick Updates
Registrations are now open!!
Pay as you wish to support this year’s conference. Options include :
Registration
Select you preferred banner design.
There two options currently available. Please review and share your feedback. Additionally if you have a banner design you can still submit by 2nd Nov 2020.
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What would you like to hear about in this year’s conference?
Share objectives that would interest you. key plenary sessions in mind:
Conference Schedule
Micro Frontends Squad
Imagine rapidly re-using frontend modules other teams created.
Imagine trying out new, tablet-friendly modules right away - without the fear that those modules will crash your system.
To solve these problems, we’re creating a new UI framework for OpenMRS leveraging modern javascript frameworks harnessing microservice architecture
Learn more: Read the technical vision here.
Connect: Slack: #microfrontends | Weekly call: Thursdays 3pm UTC �Tech Leads: @jdick @bistenes @florianrappl
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Micro Frontends Squad Update
Focus this month: Plug & play tools for devs; New designs for Patient Visit workflow
Get Involved
1) Tech improvements for easier set-up & configuration
2) Designs
COVID-19 Squad
First few months: A collaboration hub where ongoing work is shared for feedback and collaboration. E.g. setting up forms and workflows for new COVID care requirements.
Now: Imagine a more robust, easier-to-set-up OMRS to DHIS2 pipeline, that doesn’t need manual code fixes every time there’s a change to reporting indicators. More reporting standards are coming for COVID. We want to support both COVID reporting requirements and invest in improvements that can be used for other issues - from HIV and TB, to future pandemics.
Learn more: Our home page
Connect: Slack: #covid-19 | Weekly call: Wednesdays 4pm UTC
Contact: @grace @ibacher @jayasanka
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Demo: Updates to DHIS2 Connector Module
Repo: github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-dhisconnector
Coming soon to Add-Ons!
Supporting the long term sustainability of OpenMRS products and implementations by creating OpenMRS Academies that expand local OpenMRS capacity.
OpenMRS Academy Squad
Learn more: Here
Connect: Weekly call: Thursdays at 3pm UTC
Leads: @antoniomacheve @marinachichava @jennifer @christine
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OpenMRS Academy Squad Update
Focus this month: Identifying potential 2021 activities
Problems We’re Solving:
Milestone: OpenMRS Fundamentals Academy went live in Maputo!
Next steps:
Seeking:
OpenMRS Fundamentals Academy
Who Attended? 13 participants representing the MOH, implementers, and university students
Who Facilitated? Local OpenMRS implementers and OpenMRS community members co-facilitated sessions over the course of three days.
What was covered?
When? September 29-October 1, 2020
Where? Maputo, Mozambique
Lessons learned:
OpenMRS Fundamentals Academy
Feedback from participants:
Future ideas and plans:
Analytics Engine Squad
Learn more: Site
Connect: Slack: #analytics-engine | Weekly calls: Thursday 2pm UTC
Tech Leads: @akimaina @aojwang @bashir
(Previously called the ETL Squad)
Working to improve OMRS data use for indicator reporting, reduce unplanned technical team member overtime, and to make it easier to drill down to patient-level data.
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Analytics Engine: Demo
Analytics Engine: Demo
Sorry about the occasional background noise of the microphone!
Analytics Engine: Future Plans
“Quality is everyone’s responsibility.”
“QA at the beginning, not at the end.”
The QA Support Team aims to ensure the community releases quality OpenMRS software.
QA Support Team
Learn more: Our wiki page
Connect: Slack: # qa-support-team | Weekly call: Tuesday 5pm UTC
Leads: @christine, @k.joseph, @ivanc, @jennifer
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QA Support Team Update
Focus for the month of November :
Join us on Monday’s Design forum (2nd Nov 2020) for tutorial session on :
How to get started writing automated tests in Selenium.
Connect: Weekly call Monday 3pm UTC
Leads: @herbert24 @grace
On our weekly calls we review technical needs in the community and try to plan releases and resources for our platform, Reference Application, and coordinate other projects like Google Summer of Code.
Project Management Team
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Platform Release 2.4.0 Update
Problems Addressed
Progress Updates
Openmrs on postgres: https://talk.openmrs.org/t/gsoc-2020-openmrs-should-support-postgresql/28755/18
API end points :https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Platform+2.4.0+REST-endpoint+testing
PLATFORM RELEASE MANAGER : @gcliff
RefApp Release 2.11.0 Update
Overview
Timeline
Release deadline 16st November
Seeking:
Links of Interest: overview of module updates
RefApp Release Manager: @sharif
OCL for OpenMRS Squad
Learn more: Wiki home
Connect: Slack: #ocl #ocl-client-dev | Weekly call: Wednesdays 2pm UTC
Contact: @grace
No more starting your dictionary or concept management from scratch!
Imagine building a COVID or Cancer dictionary once, and then be able to re-use it across any implementation, and share with any organization. No more painful migration script management.
Across OMRS and world-wide languages, this will enable us to speak the same content-language, and share our content work - and future statistical analysis.
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Demo
OCL Squad Update
Focus this month: MVP+ Features, e.g. Sources and Upload Details
Milestones
Two things you can do!
Imagine data a tool that converts data so it’s ready to be shared with other systems - or better yet, data that’s stored ready for interoperability. We provide tooling to enable the representation of OpenMRS data as FHIR resources and the exchange of these resources with other systems.
FHIR Squad
Learn more: https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/projects/OpenMRS+FHIR+Module
Connect: Slack: #fhir #fhir-development | Weekly call: Wednesdays 3pm UTC
Tech Leads: @ibacher @ccwhite23
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FHIR Squad Update
Focus this month: Features for the next release
Problems We’re Solving
Milestones
Seeking
Choosing to try-out Carbon Design System was a decision with big future implications for OpenMRS as a community.
How did the Squad make and share this with the community?
Thinking of the OMRS Decision Making Playbook, here’s what we did.
Decision Making Spotlight
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See something interesting today?
Thank you!
Next Squad Showcase Nov 26 2pm UTC
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