CapacityPlus Offers Its First "Code Bounties" to the Global iHRIS Community

CapacityPlus recently began offering “code bounties” to engage more people in the global community that supports the iHRIS Suite of open source software for the health workforce. These code bounties are small projects with narrow scopes of software development work and small monetary awards intended to incentivize more developers to contribute to advancing iHRIS.

So far the project has posted three code bounties, which are aimed at improving the iHRIS software documentation, translation into Arabic, and data exportation from iHRIS for importation into other health information systems. Sovello Mgani, a developer in Tanzania, won the first bounty. With this award, he will create documentation to guide the decentralization of iHRIS to districts in Ghana.

More than a dozen countries are adopting the iHRIS software, which provides health managers and other health leaders with information to track, manage, and plan their health workforce. IntraHealth’s global project, CapacityPlus, along with a network of other projects and organizations, is assisting these countries to install and adapt the software for local needs. As more countries seek to employ iHRIS, CapacityPlus is striving to meet these needs by broadening and strengthening the community of developers with the skills to support and sustain the software...