Community


We are working hard to grow the OpenMRS community, since we believe this is the best way to help patients within developing countries through a robust and extensible medical record system foundation. The unrelenting pandemic of HIV/AIDS along with the burden of malaria and drug-resistant tuberculosis demand coordinated and rapid responses. Working together, we hope to reduce the amount of redundant efforts in collecting and managing medical information in these settings. We've found several tools available within the open source community that can enhance communication and collaboration.


A community page dedicated to the implementers of OpenMRS

Implementers Page

A community page dedicated to the developers of OpenMRS

Developers Page


Mailing Lists
  • announce@openmrs.org ( ¤) (archive)
    General news about OpenMRS
  • implementers@openmrs.org (¤) (archive)
    Community mailing list for people using, considering using, or interested in OpenMRS
  • dev@openmrs.org (¤) (archive)
    Primary mailing list for OpenMRS developers.
  • mentors@openmrs.org
    Mailing list for OpenMRS coding mentors — i.e., OpenMRS developers that are responsible for mentoring interns on mentored OpenMRS projects. Used for mentor-specific conversations/announcements; development conversations should be directed to dev@openmrs.org.
  • interns@openmrs.org
    Mailing list for interns and mentors working on mentored OpenMRS projects (e.g., Google Summer of Code projects, externally funded mentored projects, or volunteer mentored projects). Used for announcement or conversations specific to people involved in mentored projects; development conversations should be directed to dev@openmrs.org.
  • security@openmrs.org (¤) (archive)
    Security Notifications (NOTE: these go to the Implementers list as well, so you do not need to subscribe to this list if you are subscribed to the implementers mailing list)

If you join the implementers list or developer list, you do NOT need to join the announcement mailing list, since all announcements are copied to the implementers' and developers' mailing lists as well.
¤ Uses "mailto:" links. To manually subscribe, send an email to listserv@listserv.iupui.edu with
subscribe openmrs-announce-l PUT-YOUR-NAME-HERE
in the body. (options are openmrs-announce-l, openmrs-implement-l, or openmrs-devel-l, openmrs-security-l)

The OpenMRS forum provides for threaded discussions on specific topics related to OpenMRS.

Feeling overwhelmed by all of the entry points? Want to follow all things OpenMRS? The OpenMRS Feed was designed for this. Learn how to use the OpenMRS feed on this page.

The OpenMRS Feed is available as either an RSS 2.0 or ATOM 1.0 feed.

Join us in #openmrs on irc.freenode.net

What is this IRC, you ask? Learn about IRC on Wikipedia.

Learn more about OpenMRS and IRC

Groups of OpenMRS developers, designers, and others interested and focusing on specific topics.

Learn about OpenMRS Working Groups

A big part of understanding OpenMRS is to understand the people that are actively involved in the OpenMRS collaboration.

Learn about some of the core people working on OpenMRS.

OpenMRS owes much of its success to the organizations that have supported us along the way. Several organizations have supported OpenMRS through people, funding, community building, and other means.

Learn about organizations that are supporting OpenMRS

Read up on OpenMRS-related events, both upcoming and in the past.

Learn about OpenMRS-related Events