Development Contributor Onboarding?

OpenEMR Development
#1

Hi All,

Could you guys please help me in understanding the procedure to get on boarded as a certified contributor to Open EMR? How to get started? @brady.miller your help in this regard will be highly appreciated.

Thanks

#2

hi @rtaimoor31, please see these instructions.

#3

Hi @stephenwaite,

Thanks for your response.

Just a quick follow-up question;
What sort of contributions can we make to become certified contributors of Open EMR? I mean, does reporting valid bugs, we come across while using OEMR, on git count as contribution? Or only Programming/Coding to resolve an open issue will be considered as legit contribution to become certified contributors?

#4

hi @rtaimoor31, the way it’s written currently is to have "At least one commit " in the last 12 months. So this could be as simple as following the contributing guide and fixing some minor typos, basically all contributions are valued, thank you.

#5

Thanks @stephenwaite for your response.

Looking forward to be on-boarded as Certified Contributor of Open EMR.

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#6

Hi @stephenwaite,

Some further clarity is required on following points;

  1. What’s the difference between Volunteer & Certified Contributor?
  2. We’d like to provide MU Certified EMR & Medical Billing services to our clients in The United States. Is it possible to officially use Open EMR software for such services if we sign-up as volunteer (translator, documentation, bugs reporting)?
  3. Does OEMR allow volunteers to provider services to outside clients using Certified Open EMR Software? or one needs to be a Certified Contributor to sell EMR & Medical Billing Services using MU Certified Open EMR Software?

Your guidance will be highly appreciated. Thanks

#7

hi @rtaimoor31, certified contributors get special mention on the professional support page, https://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Professional_Support

OpenEMR software is free to use with no restrictions per the GNU General Public License, so no need to be designated a certified contributor by open-emr.org if you are looking to run, study, share, and modify the software.

#8

Hi @stephenwaite,

Thanks for your response.

But we want to use Open EMR commercially as a MU Certified Product to provide EMR & Medical Billing Services to our clients (doctors). Can we use it for commercial purposes without getting on-boarded as a certified contributor? What do we need to do to use it commercially (with same name, of course, but through our platform)?

#9

feel free to use the software but the name OpenEMR is protected for use by the organization