New Developer Information

Welcome and thank you for your interest in the OpenEMR system. The OpenEMR community is very open and we welcome contributions of code and ideas. We ask that the code be released under the General Gnu Public License to keep the licensing consistent.

• Here is an overview of the OpenEMR system architecture.
• Here is an overview of the OpenEMR coding policies aka Coding Standards.
• To get started, feel free to introduce yourself at our developer forum on sourceforge HERE or email the administrators, Rod Roark (rod at sunsetsystems dot com) and Brady Miller (brady@sparmy.com). Tony McCormick is the volunteer coordinator and can be reached at (tony@mi-squared.com).
• Code patches for review can be submitted in the sourceforge tracker HERE. We usually can test and give feedback to your patches within 1-2 days. Please derive patches from the most current OpenEMR development version from either of below repositories:
  • The development tip from the git repository on sourceforge: git://openemr.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/openemr/openemr
  • The 'master' branch from the git repository on github: http://github.com/openemr/openemr (quick howto documentation here)
  • The 'master' branch from the git repository on gitorious: http://gitorious.org/openemr/openemr

Again, feel free to email the administrators, Rod Roark (rod at sunsetsystems dot com) and Brady Miller (brady@sparmy.com) with any questions or concerns.