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[cs-ugrads] Write Code! Save the World! Summer 2010!

Yaw Anokwa

Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 11:52 AM
To: Change Group
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Write Code! Save the World! Summer 2010!

a few of us at uw have long standing projects with openmrs and

partners in health. one of the core openmrs/pih folks has moved to

seattle and this sounds like a good opportunity to add to those

collaborations! as a bonus, you can even work on features that connect

openmrs to uw’s own open data kit.

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Write Code! Save the World! Summer 2010!

Would you like to spend your summer …

– contributing to an exciting Open Source project

– helping a local non-profit that’s been doing medical work in

developing countries for 30 years.

– writing code that might be rolled out in hospitals in Haiti, Rwanda,

Peru, and 20+ other countries

– getting some J2EE web application development experience on your resume

Well, then come join us for a summer of code! The prestigious Google

Summer of Code (code.google.com/soc) pays students to spend the summer

working on open source projects. You will spend 11 weeks writing code

for a real project, on top of a real application that real people use.

OpenMRS (openmrs.org) is an open source electronic medical record

system, primarily aimed at developing countries. And it’s a GSoC

mentoring organization.

Partners In Health (pih.org) is a Boston-based non-profit with 30

years of experience bringing medical care to developing countries, and

8 years of experience implementing electronic medical records

technology in challenging settings.

PIH is a co-founder/contributor to the OpenMRS project and we have

several developers who will be acting as mentors for GSoC projects

this summer. We have a preference for Seattle-area students that we

can work with in person. So, if you are a Seattle-based student

(undergrad, grad, or just-graduating) who wants to do some real-world

software development, then we want to hear from you.

The GSoC application period is from March 29 to April 9. So check out

OpenMRS’s summer of code page

(http://openmrs.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2010) and look for a project

you like. If you’re in the Seattle area and want to talk to us

directly, email Darius at djazayeri@pih.org.

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March 26, 2010