March 2013 Contributor Of The Month: Lluis Martinez

Every month the OpenMRS community highlights one of its contributors in the OpenMRS so you have the chance to learn to learn more about the people involved in the project. This month, OpenMRS community manager Michael Downey introduces you to Lluis Martinez from Spain. More information about the Contributor of the Month program is available on the OpenMRS wiki. We’d love to hear what you think about it as well as your nominations of fellow contributors!

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Michael Downey: It sounds like you’ve got quite a bit of development experience. What led you to OpenMRS, and inspired you to get involved in the project?

Lluis Martinez: Actually, I didn’t hear about OpenMRS anywhere specifically. I was looking for an open source project that used Spring because I was interested in learning it. So you might say that I found OpenMRS by chance. I liked the fact that was used in developing countries, because in the past I worked as IT volunteer for the NGO Intermón Oxfam. I downloaded the OpenMRS source code, browsed JIRA tickets, and joined the developers mailing list. It looked all very solid to me. The source code was good technically, which was a plus for me. I started right away by picking some interesting introductory tickets from JIRA and fixing issues....