Growing the Global iHRIS Community, One Bounty at a Time

More than a dozen countries are implementing CapacityPlus's open source iHRIS software, which provides information for health leaders to track, manage, and plan their health workforce. CapacityPlus, along with other projects and organizations, provides assistance to these countries to install and adapt the software for local needs. As more countries continue to express interest in iHRIS, CapacityPlus is striving to broaden and strengthen a global community of people that can help support and sustain the software.

Sovello MganiCapacityPlus recently began offering “code bounties” to incentivize more open source developers to contribute to advancing iHRIS. Code bounties are small projects with narrow scopes of software development work and small monetary awards.

So far, CapacityPlus posted three code bounties, aimed at improving the iHRIS software documentation, translating the software into Arabic, and ensuring iHRIS data can be shared with other health information systems. Sovello Mgani, a developer in Tanzania, applied for and won the first bounty. With this award, he will create documentation to guide the decentralization of iHRIS to districts in Ghana...