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Samuel Mbuthia	@smbuthia
Catharina Maracke	@catharinamaracke

Update guidance on requesting and creating a new GitHub repo

Update the guide Starting an Open Source Project to include the most recent process shared by IMT here.

Interested Collaborator - (Japhari Mbaru, President Office - Regional Administrative and Local Government in Tanzania (Ministry responsible for health) e-Afya)

About

This template is for interested expert individuals, companies, organizations or communities that wish to collaborate on forthcoming open source software from the World Health Organization. Individuals and entities that already have collaborations or partnerships with WHO may use existing communication channels in lieu of this submission. Kindly note this repository is public and any information submitted on this Issue will be as well. WHO is not responsible for sensitive information submitted.

WHO will be in touch with interested collaborators as opportunities arise.

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About You

1. I am submitting on behalf of (select all that apply):

Myself (as an individual)
My company, government or organization
My open source community

2. What is your name: Japhari Mbaru

3. If applicable, please type the name of the company, government, organization or open source community on behalf of which you're submitting: _President Office - Regional Administrative and Local Government in Tanzania _

4. Please type your GitHub ID: japhari

5. Can we contact you at your GitHub ID with updates on WHO open source projects? Your information will not be shared further or for any other purpose.

Yes
No

About Your Interest

6. Please consult the ReadMe and indicate the projects on which you're interested in collaborating:

Augmented Public Health Intelligence - AI/ML
Semantic Web of Public Health Data - open APIs
Active COVID-19 Surveillance Data Access Layer
Go.Data
Other: please enter a description

7. Please briefly describe how you would like to collaborate on the project(s) above: Github

Develop and Implement OSPO Governance Framework

The OSPO governance structure will outline key roles and responsibilities within the WHO OSPO community. Ideally, this will include representation from key teams within WHO and potentially outside collaborators who can help strengthen the function of the OSPO.

Interested Collaborator - Anmol Singh Suri

About

This template is for interested expert individuals, companies, organizations or communities that wish to collaborate on forthcoming open source software from the World Health Organization. Individuals and entities that already have collaborations or partnerships with WHO may use existing communication channels in lieu of this submission. Kindly note this repository is public and any information submitted on this Issue will be as well. WHO is not responsible for sensitive information submitted.

WHO will be in touch with interested collaborators as opportunities arise.

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About You

1. I am submitting on behalf of (select all that apply):

Myself (as an individual)
My company, government or organization
My open source community

2. What is your name: Anmol Singh Suri

3. If applicable, please type the name of the company, government, organization or open source community on behalf of which you're submitting: please type your response

4. Please type your GitHub ID: anmolss111

5. Can we contact you at your GitHub ID with updates on WHO open source projects? Your information will not be shared further or for any other purpose.

Yes
No

About Your Interest

6. Please consult the ReadMe and indicate the projects on which you're interested in collaborating:

Augmented Public Health Intelligence - AI/ML
Semantic Web of Public Health Data - open APIs
Active COVID-19 Surveillance Data Access Layer
Go.Data
Other: please enter a description

7. Please briefly describe how you would like to collaborate on the project(s) above:
I am aware of the following languages:
C, C++, C#, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Python, Php, R & TypeScript.
Would like to support anything that you seem to make use of me.
I also have experience in productionizing ML and AI projects.

Interested Collaborator - (Bradley Bonitatibus)

About

This template is for interested expert individuals, companies, organizations or communities that wish to collaborate on forthcoming open source software from the World Health Organization. Individuals and entities that already have collaborations or partnerships with WHO may use existing communication channels in lieu of this submission. Kindly note this repository is public and any information submitted on this Issue will be as well. WHO is not responsible for sensitive information submitted.

WHO will be in touch with interested collaborators as opportunities arise.

Please fill out the following fields

About You

1. I am submitting on behalf of (select all that apply):

Myself (as an individual)
My company, government or organization
My open source community

2. What is your name: Bradley Bonitatibus

3. If applicable, please type the name of the company, government, organization or open source community on behalf of which you're submitting: N/A

4. Please type your GitHub ID: bradleybonitatibus

5. Can we contact you at your GitHub ID with updates on WHO open source projects? Your information will not be shared further or for any other purpose.

Yes
No

About Your Interest

6. Please consult the ReadMe and indicate the projects on which you're interested in collaborating:

Augmented Public Health Intelligence - AI/ML
Semantic Web of Public Health Data - open APIs
Active COVID-19 Surveillance Data Access Layer
Go.Data
Other:

7. Please briefly describe how you would like to collaborate on the project(s) above:
I deeply care about data access and integration and have experience working as a data engineer, building APIs and data pipelines (both batch and streaming). I would like to collaborate on building APIs that can allow users to better interact with Public Health data, not just for COVID, but all diseases.

Interested Collaborator - (Juan Celis, SPEIT)

About

This template is for interested expert individuals, companies, organizations or communities that wish to collaborate on forthcoming open source software from the World Health Organization. Individuals and entities that already have collaborations or partnerships with WHO may use existing communication channels in lieu of this submission. Kindly note this repository is public and any information submitted on this Issue will be as well. WHO is not responsible for sensitive information submitted.

WHO will be in touch with interested collaborators as opportunities arise.

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About You

1. I am submitting on behalf of (select all that apply):

[x ] Myself (as an individual)
My company, government or organization
My open source community

2. What is your name: _ Juan Carlos Celis Salinas

3. If applicable, please type the name of the company, government, organization or open source community on behalf of which you're submitting: _Peruvian Society of Infectiuos and Tropical Diseases _

4. Please type your GitHub ID: JkCelis

5. Can we contact you at your GitHub ID with updates on WHO open source projects? Your information will not be shared further or for any other purpose.

[ x] Yes
No

About Your Interest

6. Please consult the ReadMe and indicate the projects on which you're interested in collaborating:

[ x] Augmented Public Health Intelligence - AI/ML
Semantic Web of Public Health Data - open APIs
Active COVID-19 Surveillance Data Access Layer
Go.Data
Other: please enter a description

7. Please briefly describe how you would like to collaborate on the project(s) above: real time data

Interested Collaborator - Max Base

About

This template is for interested expert individuals, companies, organizations or communities that wish to collaborate on forthcoming open source software from the World Health Organization. Individuals and entities that already have collaborations or partnerships with WHO may use existing communication channels in lieu of this submission. Kindly note this repository is public and any information submitted on this Issue will be as well. WHO is not responsible for sensitive information submitted.

WHO will be in touch with interested collaborators as opportunities arise.

Please fill out the following fields

About You

1. I am submitting on behalf of (select all that apply):

Myself (as an individual)
My company, government or organization
My open source community

2. What is your name: Max Base

3. If applicable, please type the name of the company, government, organization or open source community on behalf of which you're submitting: No

4. Please type your GitHub ID: BaseMax

5. Can we contact you at your GitHub ID with updates on WHO open source projects? Your information will not be shared further or for any other purpose.

Yes
No

About Your Interest

6. Please consult the ReadMe and indicate the projects on which you're interested in collaborating:

Augmented Public Health Intelligence - AI/ML
Semantic Web of Public Health Data - open APIs
Active COVID-19 Surveillance Data Access Layer
Go.Data
Other

7. Please briefly describe how you would like to collaborate on the project(s) above:
I am a full-stack engineer, I have happily worked on everything from HTML/CSS/JavaScript to Kernel development.

I have done the same thing with COVID19 web services before. Available here:

Innovation Award:
https://www.phpclasses.org/package/11584-PHP-An-API-to-lookup-information-about-Corona-Virus.html

More: https://github.com/BaseMax/api-webservice-COVID-19
https://github.com/BaseMax/CoronaVirusOutbreakAPI

Add guidance on selecting open source software and libraries

Adopting open source software comes with challenges, including:

security vulnerabilities
lack of or inadequate maintenance
lack of or inadequate support channels

The probability of encountering these challenges could be reduced by assessing software and libraries before they are adopted. A guide to help people select the right software or library that is actively maintained and well supported will be instrumental in doing this.

Would be Taiwan able to contribute?

Since WHO is refusing the contribution or joining of Taiwan government, would Taiwan contributor allow to contribute in WHO open source project?

Interested Collaborator - Vishesh Gupta

About

This template is for interested expert individuals, companies, organizations or communities that wish to collaborate on forthcoming open source software from the World Health Organization. Individuals and entities that already have collaborations or partnerships with WHO may use existing communication channels in lieu of this submission. Kindly note this repository is public and any information submitted on this Issue will be as well. WHO is not responsible for sensitive information submitted.

WHO will be in touch with interested collaborators as opportunities arise.

Please fill out the following fields

About You

1. I am submitting on behalf of (select all that apply):

Myself (as an individual)
My company, government or organization
My open source community

2. What is your name: Vishesh Gupta

3. If applicable, please type the name of the company, government, organization or open source community on behalf of which you're submitting: Open Source Community

4. Please type your GitHub ID: vishesh-gupta

5. Can we contact you at your GitHub ID with updates on WHO open source projects? Your information will not be shared further or for any other purpose.

Yes
No

About Your Interest

6. Please consult the ReadMe and indicate the projects on which you're interested in collaborating:

Augmented Public Health Intelligence - AI/ML
Semantic Web of Public Health Data - open APIs
Active COVID-19 Surveillance Data Access Layer
Go.Data
Other: please enter a description

7. Please briefly describe how you would like to collaborate on the project(s) above:
Anything Fullstack in any language and anything infrastructure related

Add guidance on using issue labels to easily track issues across the organization

Each project and repository may choose to use labels differently. Some common best practices in labeling issues, such as, specific labels for bug reporting and feature requests will be helpful both in the adoption of development best practices and in monitoring some open source metrics at the org level.

Documentation process for making an internal or private repository public

This issue proposes documenting a step-by-step process or checklist that people can follow as they prepare to make a private or internal GitHub repository public.

The document should cover:

ensuring open source practices like having license files and contributing guidelines are followed
branch protection
managing maintainers and contributors
checking for security vulnerabilities - including exposed passwords and security keys
checking for personally identifiable information in the code - including people's names, emails, phone numbers, etc.

Update projects on README

Update README file to include Step-by-step and Em Care to list of projects and project points of contact.

Develop Guidance on Building and Managing Contributor Communities

Leveraging communities of contributors is a key part of managing open source projects. To do this, project teams need to provide platforms and channels through which these communities can share ideas, ask questions, and interact. The guidance on building and managing contributor communities is to support teams trying to figure out:

what contributor community forum platforms to use,
how to go about developer and contributor advocacy,
planning and facilitating contributor community events, and more

Fix navigation for gh-pages

It is currently not possible to navigate to the existing guidance documentation from the GitHub pages landing page. It would be good to have navigation to allow easier access to guidance through GitHub pages.

2 options are:

manually add navigation links to the landing page
add a Jekyll theme with navigation

A Jekyll theme with navigation seems most straightforward.

Interested Collaborator - (YUNCHUL JUNG, ABOUTGROUP)

About

This template is for interested expert individuals, companies, organizations or communities that wish to collaborate on forthcoming open source software from the World Health Organization. Individuals and entities that already have collaborations or partnerships with WHO may use existing communication channels in lieu of this submission. Kindly note this repository is public and any information submitted on this Issue will be as well. WHO is not responsible for sensitive information submitted.

WHO will be in touch with interested collaborators as opportunities arise.

Please fill out the following fields

About You

1. I am submitting on behalf of (select all that apply):

[v] Myself (as an individual)
My company, government or organization
My open source community

2. What is your name: YUNCHUL JUNG

3. If applicable, please type the name of the company, government, organization or open source community on behalf of which you're submitting: ABOUTGROUP

4. Please type your GitHub ID: [email protected]

5. Can we contact you at your GitHub ID with updates on WHO open source projects? Your information will not be shared further or for any other purpose.

Yes
[v] No

About Your Interest

6. Please consult the ReadMe and indicate the projects on which you're interested in collaborating:

[v] Augmented Public Health Intelligence - AI/ML
[v] Semantic Web of Public Health Data - open APIs
[v] Active COVID-19 Surveillance Data Access Layer
[v] Go.Data
[v] Other: EIOS

7. Please briefly describe how you would like to collaborate on the project(s) above: _I'm currently working on opening and standardize infectious disease data of Dept. Korea Disease Contrrol and Prevention Agency(KDCA), South Korea. I'm asking you to give permission to access open sources of EIOS(maybe asseccment of EIOS protal) to investigate currnet event based survailance system of KDCA. If you want details, i pleasurely willing to answer that. Hope your generous feedback. _

Define Metrics to Measure Open Source Success

As the Open Source Programme Office grows and matures, we would like to collaboratively define measures of success.

These measures of success will help achieve the following:

Raise awareness of open source project activities within the organization
Identify gaps and opportunities that the Open Source Programme Office can support in addressing
Track compliance, best practices, and set benchmarks for open source projects

These metrics can also help project stakeholders make informed decisions and take corrective action if a project goes off track.

For 2023, we would like to set a minimum of 10 key metrics.

Useful guides:

Update choosing an open source license guide to include compatibility and clarify notices

It would be good to have considerations on license compatibility in the Choosing an Open Source License Guide.

The section on file notices could also be a little more detailed.

Document WHO Open Source Strategy

As we continue to formalize the World Health Organization's approach to open source management and strategy, we are documenting the strategy that will guide the adoption and development of open source. This document will:

elaborate on WHO's approach to open source and support of its use,
highlight strategies on the consumption of open source,
support the WHO's contribution to open source projects,
provide high level guidance for licenses, policies, and procurement templates (deeper, more detailed guidance will exist separately),
define a usage policy and trademark, and more

EDIT:
Further elaborating on the efforts here, below is a breakdown of activities to accomplish this work:

Form a working group to develop the open source strategy
Develop a draft of the strategy with an intuitive flow and covering critical open source areas
Share the draft for review with a wider audience representing 3 levels (country, region, and HQ)
Incorporate feedback from review
Share strategy with higher level leadership team for review and approval
Incorporate feedback from final review and get final approval
Launch the open source strategy and disseminate it through official channels

Document best practices for managing product development

This issue proposes documenting detailed best practices on how to manage contributions from a team of developers from different organizations to a WHO led project and/or software product. Project teams are free to use processes they are most comfortable with but could use these best practices to inform or enhance their processes.

The guidance could cover among other things:

Interested Collaborator - (Arun Kumar)

About

This template is for interested expert individuals, companies, organizations or communities that wish to collaborate on forthcoming open source software from the World Health Organization. Individuals and entities that already have collaborations or partnerships with WHO may use existing communication channels in lieu of this submission. Kindly note this repository is public and any information submitted on this Issue will be as well. WHO is not responsible for sensitive information submitted.

WHO will be in touch with interested collaborators as opportunities arise.

Please fill out the following fields

About You

1. I am submitting on behalf of (select all that apply):

[Yes] Myself (as an individual)
My company, government or organization
My open source community

2. What is your name: Arun Kumar

3. If applicable, please type the name of the company, government, organization or open source community on behalf of which you're submitting: Nil

4. Please type your GitHub ID: https://github.com/ArunRamachandran25

5. Can we contact you at your GitHub ID with updates on WHO open source projects? Your information will not be shared further or for any other purpose.

[Yes] Yes
No

About Your Interest

6. Please consult the ReadMe and indicate the projects on which you're interested in collaborating:

[Yes] Augmented Public Health Intelligence - AI/ML
[Yes] Semantic Web of Public Health Data - open APIs
[Yes] Active COVID-19 Surveillance Data Access Layer
[Yes] Go.Data
Other: please enter a description

7. Please briefly describe how you would like to collaborate on the project(s) above: I would like to know the overall description of the projects I mentioned above. As I am a novice to the Data domain. I would like to improve my Data skills by contributing to the WHO Projects. I wish to get acquainted with the Projects in a more detail manner. I wish to analyse the datasets of the above mentioned Projects in either Python or any Data related programming languages. Through these projects, I wish to contribute as far as I can like preparing Datasets, preparing machine learning models etc.

OSPO Collaboration Repository Refresh

Revamp the current OSPO collaboration repository content to update:

Interested Collaborator - Josh Ellis

About

This template is for interested expert individuals, companies, organizations or communities that wish to collaborate on forthcoming open source software from the World Health Organization. Individuals and entities that already have collaborations or partnerships with WHO may use existing communication channels in lieu of this submission. Kindly note this repository is public and any information submitted on this Issue will be as well. WHO is not responsible for sensitive information submitted.

WHO will be in touch with interested collaborators as opportunities arise.

Please fill out the following fields

About You

1. I am submitting on behalf of (select all that apply):

Myself (as an individual)
My company, government or organization
My open source community

2. What is your name: Josh Ellis

3. If applicable, please type the name of the company, government, organization or open source community on behalf of which you're submitting: N/A

4. Please type your GitHub ID: imjoshellis

5. Can we contact you at your GitHub ID with updates on WHO open source projects? Your information will not be shared further or for any other purpose.

Yes
No

About Your Interest

6. Please consult the ReadMe and indicate the projects on which you're interested in collaborating:

Augmented Public Health Intelligence - AI/ML
Semantic Web of Public Health Data - open APIs
Active COVID-19 Surveillance Data Access Layer
Go.Data
Other: Documentation / Frontend / UX

7. Please briefly describe how you would like to collaborate on the project(s) above: I'm not sure what the projects entail, but as someone who spent some time earlier in 2020 building a simple site for visualizing COVID active cases, I'm interested in helping to improve the developer experience of using API endpoints.

Interested Collaborator - Mekom Solutions (→ Ozone HIS → OpenMRS 3)

About You

1. I am submitting on behalf of:

Myself (as an individual)
My company, government or organization
My open source community

2. What is your name: Dimitri RENAULT

3. If applicable, please type the name of the company, government, organization or open source community on behalf of which you're submitting:

Mekom Solutions
↳ Ozone HIS
↳ OpenMRS 3

4. Please type your GitHub ID: @mks-d

5. Can we contact you at your GitHub ID with updates on WHO open source projects? Your information will not be shared further or for any other purpose.

Yes
No

About Your Interest

6. Please consult the ReadMe and indicate the projects on which you're interested in collaborating:

Augmented Public Health Intelligence - AI/ML
Semantic Web of Public Health Data - open APIs
Active COVID-19 Surveillance Data Access Layer
Go.Data
Other: EMR/EHR and interoperable patient management software in general

7. Please briefly describe how you would like to collaborate on the project(s) above:

Mekom Solutions develops and maintains open-source patient-centric (EMR/EHR) applications made with OpenMRS 3 - the open-source EMR system for our world. We believe that open digital health is a pillar of universal access to healthcare; and we are committed to building it by co-contributing to Digital Public Goods, and specifically to OpenMRS 3.

Disease surveillance is already supported in OpenMRS 3 for HIV and there is no particular challenge nor impediments to extend this to COVID-19. There are a number of native features of OpenMRS 3 that can directly support contact tracing workflows, for instance the management of patient lists and OpenMRS Offline. Furthermore an upcoming COVID-19 OpenMRS 3 package would combine perfectly with WHO's DHIS2 COVID-19 Surveillance & Response Toolkit.

We would like to increase WHO's awareness of OpenMRS 3 by implementing and trying it in the context of disease surveillance. This endeavour shall demonstrate that its potential goes beyond that scope: OpenMRS 3 is a full-fledged EMR system that is able to support frontline health workers at the point-of-care in a wide variety of clinical areas that are of interest to the WHO. It has an extensive ecosystem of donors and contributors, an ambitious roadmap and a proven track record since it has been implemented at thousands of health facilities around the world, including at the national level in many countries.

A very quick peek at OpenMRS 3:

Fig.1 - OpenMRS 3, patient list for triage

Fig.2 - OpenMRS 3, reviewing lab results

Interested Collaborator - (Zhida Cheng, Yidu Tech)

About

This template is for interested expert individuals, companies, organizations or communities that wish to collaborate on forthcoming open source software from the World Health Organization. Individuals and entities that already have collaborations or partnerships with WHO may use existing communication channels in lieu of this submission. Kindly note this repository is public and any information submitted on this Issue will be as well. WHO is not responsible for sensitive information submitted.

WHO will be in touch with interested collaborators as opportunities arise.

Please fill out the following fields

About You

1. I am submitting on behalf of (select all that apply):

Myself (as an individual)
My company, government or organization
My open source community

2. What is your name:
Zhida Cheng

3. If applicable, please type the name of the company, government, organization or open source community on behalf of which you're submitting:
Yidu Tech Inc.

4. Please type your GitHub ID:
vorbei

5. Can we contact you at your GitHub ID with updates on WHO open source projects? Your information will not be shared further or for any other purpose.

Yes
No

About Your Interest

6. Please consult the ReadMe and indicate the projects on which you're interested in collaborating:

Augmented Public Health Intelligence - AI/ML
Semantic Web of Public Health Data - open APIs
Active COVID-19 Surveillance Data Access Layer
Go.Data
Other: please enter a description

7. Please briefly describe how you would like to collaborate on the project(s) above:

Using web of public health data as event based surveillance data source.
Researching outbreak patterns of countries.
Get notified from surveillance alerts.

Interested Collaborator - Freddie Carthy

About

This template is for interested expert individuals, companies, organizations or communities that wish to collaborate on forthcoming open source software from the World Health Organization. Individuals and entities that already have collaborations or partnerships with WHO may use existing communication channels in lieu of this submission. Kindly note this repository is public and any information submitted on this Issue will be as well. WHO is not responsible for sensitive information submitted.

WHO will be in touch with interested collaborators as opportunities arise.

Please fill out the following fields

About You

1. I am submitting on behalf of (select all that apply):

Myself (as an individual)
My company, government or organization
My open source community

2. What is your name: Freddie Carthy

3. If applicable, please type the name of the company, government, organization or open source community on behalf of which you're submitting: please type your response

4. Please type your GitHub ID: gjunkie

5. Can we contact you at your GitHub ID with updates on WHO open source projects? Your information will not be shared further or for any other purpose.

Yes
No

About Your Interest

6. Please consult the ReadMe and indicate the projects on which you're interested in collaborating:

Augmented Public Health Intelligence - AI/ML
Semantic Web of Public Health Data - open APIs
Active COVID-19 Surveillance Data Access Layer
Go.Data
Other: please enter a description

7. Please briefly describe how you would like to collaborate on the project(s) above:
Any and all frontend related tasks.

Interested Collaborator - (Yuansheng Fang, Center for Global Public Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention)

About

This template is for interested expert individuals, companies, organizations or communities that wish to collaborate on forthcoming open source software from the World Health Organization. Individuals and entities that already have collaborations or partnerships with WHO may use existing communication channels in lieu of this submission. Kindly note this repository is public and any information submitted on this Issue will be as well. WHO is not responsible for sensitive information submitted.

WHO will be in touch with interested collaborators as opportunities arise.

Please fill out the following fields

About You

1. I am submitting on behalf of (select all that apply):

Myself (as an individual)
My company, government or organization
My open source community

2. What is your name: Yuansheng Fang

3. If applicable, please type the name of the company, government, organization or open source community on behalf of which you're submitting: Center for Global Public Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

4. Please type your GitHub ID: 101783591 ; @DanielFang9

5. Can we contact you at your GitHub ID with updates on WHO open source projects? Your information will not be shared further or for any other purpose.

Yes
No

About Your Interest

6. Please consult the ReadMe and indicate the projects on which you're interested in collaborating:

Augmented Public Health Intelligence - AI/ML
Semantic Web of Public Health Data - open APIs
Active COVID-19 Surveillance Data Access Layer
Go.Data
Other: please enter a description

7. Please briefly describe how you would like to collaborate on the project(s) above: Hi, To whom it may concern, this is Yuansheng from Center for Global Public Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. We are now trying to utilize the existing public health data. Could you open an account for us to log in to the EIOS platform? This will enhance our understanding of global public health data and explore approaches of cooperation for future data collaboration, in-depth analysis and data presentation.

Develop Dashboard to Track Key Open Source Metrics

Develop a dashboard to track the define metrics for open source success.

Refer to existing and recommended tools and platforms.

Develop Guidance on Governance for Open Source Projects

Open source projects require governance structures to clarify community roles and responsibilities. This guidance will support project owners and teams to establish appropriate governance structures for their projects.

Documentation improvement - formatting and style updates

Please fill the following information

What document do you want to make an improvement on?

What type of improvement would you like to make:

Grammar or typo
Content accuracy
Document structure
Other

Briefly describe how this improvement will help the users of the document:
Make minor changes to overall document structure and add things like emojis to make the documents more visually appealing and user friendly.

Create issue template for open source projects to request support from the OSPO

Discussed in #73

Create a template for open source projects that require support from the Open Source Program Office. Include relevant fields to make requests as specific as possible.

Interested Collaborator - Kevin Jones

About

This template is for interested expert individuals, companies, organizations or communities that wish to collaborate on forthcoming open source software from the World Health Organization. Individuals and entities that already have collaborations or partnerships with WHO may use existing communication channels in lieu of this submission. Kindly note this repository is public and any information submitted on this Issue will be as well. WHO is not responsible for sensitive information submitted.

WHO will be in touch with interested collaborators as opportunities arise.

Please fill out the following fields

About You

1. I am submitting on behalf of (select all that apply):

Myself (as an individual)
My company, government or organization
My open source community

2. What is your name: Kevin Jones

3. If applicable, please type the name of the company, government, organization or open source community on behalf of which you're submitting: N/A

4. Please type your GitHub ID: joneskj55

5. Can we contact you at your GitHub ID with updates on WHO open source projects? Your information will not be shared further or for any other purpose.

Yes
No

About Your Interest

6. Please consult the ReadMe and indicate the projects on which you're interested in collaborating:

Augmented Public Health Intelligence - AI/ML
Semantic Web of Public Health Data - open APIs
Active COVID-19 Surveillance Data Access Layer
Go.Data
Other: please enter a description

7. Please briefly describe how you would like to collaborate on the project(s) above:
I have experience with both front-end and back-end technologies. I am more advanced with front-end. More specifically anything involving JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JS frameworks/ libraries, etc. Looking to help out in whatever capacity helps move the project forward.

Develop Guidance on Applying Open Source Licensing (outbound)

The WHO works and collaborates on various technology solutions that can benefit from being open source. Appropriate guidance is required to help project owners choose the right open source license for their work depending on their needs. These needs could be:

promoting collaboration and open innovation
catalyzing discovery, awareness and adoption
driving transparency and interoperability of technologies

There are a number of existing resources that exist on choosing open source licenses, including:

Choose an open source license software and non-software
Open source guides on GitHub

The Open Source Initiative provides a list of commonly use licenses that serve as a good starting point to identify a license.

Improve formatting in documentation

There are too many white spaces in documents when viewed in GitHub pages. Most of these are due to unnecessary page breaks in the markdown. Remove unnecessary page breaks and spaces to improve document formatting.

Create Developer Engagement Strategy

As we look to engage developers from across different regions, sectors and organizations, we need a strategy that will provide clarity on the how developers can engage with the mission of the organization in a clear and effective way.

The strategy should provide among other things:

Clarity of mission
General guidelines on contributing that can be applied across projects and products
Definitions of stakeholders and their different forms of engagement
Communication guidelines and education for communities

Develop Guidance on Open Source License Agreements (inbound)

A number of WHO projects adopt and use open source software components that have a variety of open source licenses. Guidance is required to select the most appropriate open source components for projects and understand the implications of the license agreements from adopted components.

The guidance will cover the following at minimum:

license and copyright notices
distribution
modification
liability and warranty

Interested Collaborator - Julian Xhokaxhiu

About

This template is for interested expert individuals, companies, organizations or communities that wish to collaborate on forthcoming open source software from the World Health Organization. Individuals and entities that already have collaborations or partnerships with WHO may use existing communication channels in lieu of this submission. Kindly note this repository is public and any information submitted on this Issue will be as well. WHO is not responsible for sensitive information submitted.

WHO will be in touch with interested collaborators as opportunities arise.

Please fill out the following fields

About You

1. I am submitting on behalf of (select all that apply):

Myself (as an individual)
My company, government or organization
My open source community

2. What is your name: Julian Xhokaxhiu

3. If applicable, please type the name of the company, government, organization or open source community on behalf of which you're submitting: N/A

4. Please type your GitHub ID: julianxhokaxhiu

5. Can we contact you at your GitHub ID with updates on WHO open source projects? Your information will not be shared further or for any other purpose.

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6. Please consult the ReadMe and indicate the projects on which you're interested in collaborating:

Augmented Public Health Intelligence - AI/ML
Semantic Web of Public Health Data - open APIs
Active COVID-19 Surveillance Data Access Layer
Go.Data
Other: Anything related to Cloud Infrastructure and Automation ( DevOps )

7. Please briefly describe how you would like to collaborate on the project(s) above: I do believe WHO has to be and act as a global platform for every country, helping in organizing data and through them action in terms of medications and solutions that could be shared. Because of this, I'd love, if possible, to become a full-time employee of WHO helping in shaping and growing the platform of tomorrow. I do believe this is the right time, this platform should be independent of any big IT player out there right now, and should be of Public Domain before it's too late. This platform will have an enormous potential for both Doctors and People, if WHO will be the one in charge of it.

Add Guidance on GitHub Repositories

Internal guidance for requesting GitHub repositories at WHO exist. This issue is to make this guidance accessible to the OSPO community collaborating on this repository.

Some processes are only applicable and accessible to WHO members. Non-WHO collaborators may still be invited as external collaborators.

Review OSPO Collaborator Backlog and Update Collaborator Process

The open source communication channel has served as a platform through which expert individuals, companies, organizations or communities that wish to collaborate on forthcoming open source software from the World Health Organization express their interest through GitHub issues. We would like to update this process to be more responsive to both project needs and collaborator interest.

In the coming weeks, we will document guidelines through which collaborators can be involved in projects and projects can onboard new collaborators through their contributor communities.

Fix broken links in community building guides

The links in Why Build Contributor Communities and Where to Start work fine when accessing the document on GitHub but are broken when using GitHub pages.

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