How We Attract Google Summer of Code Applicants To The OpenMRS Community

Events can take a wide range of formats - from steering committee meetings to unconferences and hackdays, and having a diverse mix of event types as part of your community strategy can support you as you scale. Whether you’re hosting the event yourself or benefiting from one organized by another group, they can be a great way of bringing contributors together, building momentum, and moving your project forward. In this session, presenters will discuss organizing working groups, creating meeting agendas to address different goals, and using Google’s Summer of Code as a way of recruiting new community members. In this presentation, OpenMRS gives an overview of how they attract Google Summer of Code applicants to the community, sharing how they do it and lessons learnt through the 18years of being a part of Google Summer of Code.