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. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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.