# Community Members learning, helping, and celebrating 🎉

**URL:** <https://community.dhis2.org/t/community-members-learning-helping-and-celebrating/49391>\
**Category:** Connect - Connectez-vous\
**Tags:** copmonthly\
**Created:** [1 September 2022 08:19 UTC](https://community.dhis2.org/t/community-members-learning-helping-and-celebrating/49391 "2022-09-01T08:19:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gassim](https://dhis2.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.dhis2.org/gassim/32/35347_2.png) [@Gassim](https://community.dhis2.org/u/Gassim)\
**Post date:** [1 September 2022 08:19 UTC](https://community.dhis2.org/t/community-members-learning-helping-and-celebrating/49391/1 "2022-09-01T08:19:01Z")

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Let’s start by celebrating with Uganda and congratulating them on their 10th DHIS2 implementation anniversary this year. Congratulations, and thank you for sharing the story with the community making it the top topic of the month. 🎉

### Top Topics of the Month - August 2022

> [@Ministry of Health Uganda Massive DHIS2 Instances Upgrades](https://community.dhis2.org/t/ministry-of-health-uganda-massive-dhis2-instances-upgrades/49014):
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> Background Uganda joins many other countries to celebrate 10th DHIS2 implementation anniversary this year. During these years a number on DHIS2 instances have been set up to support different programs monitoring and evaluation in addition to routine HMIS. Among these are the diseases surveillance - case based, TB surveillance - case based, Immunisation registry - COVID vaccination, Health facility assessment Much as capacity has been built over time for the National Core DHIS2 team t…

DHIS2 community members are eager to learn, and the continued introductions, discussions, and interaction is visible in the community dedicated and private space for the digital self-paced discussion forums. The announcement of the DHIS2 Aggregate Customization online course launch received the attention of many members.

> [@We are launching the DHIS2 Aggregate Customization online course](https://community.dhis2.org/t/we-are-launching-the-dhis2-aggregate-customization-online-course/49081):
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> Dear Community Members, We are happy to announce the launch of the [DHIS2 Aggregate Customization](https://academy.dhis2.org/courses/course-v1:hisp+GEN-D004-en+2022_Q2/course/) course. With improved design and hands-on exercises, the customization course provides learners a comprehensive introduction on how to customize DHIS2 metadata for the aggregate data model. The course covers topics such as building an organisation unit hierarchy, creating data sets that enable data collection, and configuring disaggregations and indicators to facilitate data analysis. This is the …

That being said, we would like to congratulate @mbayefdieng for being the first to complete the DHIS2 Fundamentals courses.

![congrats](https://dhis2.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/d/5/d592efb9a6d4389db88d614a6505b94b3e34bde3.jpeg)

Read more here: [Insights from the first student to finish our new DHIS2 Fundamentals courses](https://community.dhis2.org/t/insights-from-the-first-student-to-finish-our-new-dhis2-fundamentals-courses/49375)

We’re also proud to mention that last month’s #copmonthly is also a top topic, and would like to remind you that you can also view the top support topics during the month to see if you could help your fellow members or to be aware of an issue that you could also face: [Support - Assistance technique - DHIS2 Community](https://community.dhis2.org/c/support/8/l/top?order=views&period=monthly)

Speaking about helping others,

## Thanks to all helpful members:

#### Good Samaritans

Without Good Samaritans, there’s no community! We are very thankful to all users for contributing to the CoP especially when helping other users. Samaritans, thank you for making others feel at home!  
@WaluQ | @Natalie_Tibbels | @rithvik | @plinnegan | @janagha | @Eric_Boyd_Ramirez | @kstankevitz | @Gerald_Thomas | @Roshan.Konda | @OleksandrM | @raju | @Denilson | @WumiOjo | @fmwesigwa | @Sabri | @sanis | @didate | @Stephan_Mestach | @dmnscar | @diallotafsir52 | @potlaki | @Calle_Hedberg | @alanivey| @jthomas | @e4eDHIS2 | @HaydnJ | @Jermacias |

#### Bug Hunters

Many users who faced issues and discussed them with the community were very helpful in finding bugs. These bug hunters create Jira issues (with link to the CoP post) and support the development of DHIS2.

@Jermacias | @fernando | @chase.freeman | @sele | @fernando | @waviles

#### Feature Finders

We do tag feature finders in every #copmonthly so if you have features that you’d like to share and discuss with the community feel free to make a post in the #Development - Développement category as well as share the link to the [jira.dhis2.org](http://jira.dhis2.org) feature request issue so other members can watch and vote. 👍

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### Top 10 Active Users in August 2022

| user | name | country |
| --- | --- | --- |
| @jetisco4u | Jet | NIGERIA |
| @rithvik | rithvik reddy | INDIA |
| [jthomas](https://community.dhis2.org/u/jthomas/activity) | Jins Thomas | LAO PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC |
| @ToufikHossain | Toufik | FRANCE |
| @lillian1n2 | Lillian N. | KENYA |
| [raju](https://community.dhis2.org/u/raju/activity) | Raju SMG | NORWAY |
| [Jermacias](https://community.dhis2.org/u/Jermacias/activity) | Jeremy | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA |
| @RaTED_S | Tendai Hakata | ZIMBABWE |
| @sosewe | sosewe | KENYA |
| @waviles | William Aviles | PANAMA |

### #copmonthly map

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**Author:** ![jetisco4u](https://dhis2.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.dhis2.org/jetisco4u/32/39125_2.png) [@jetisco4u](https://community.dhis2.org/u/jetisco4u)\
**Post date:** [1 September 2022 11:04 UTC](https://community.dhis2.org/t/community-members-learning-helping-and-celebrating/49391/2 "2022-09-01T11:04:05Z")

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Made it to the top. Its been an interesting journey. I have been dissecting the system and impoverishing. It’s been worth the time.

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**Author:** ![Gassim](https://dhis2.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.dhis2.org/gassim/32/35347_2.png) [@Gassim](https://community.dhis2.org/u/Gassim)\
**Post date:** [1 September 2022 19:31 UTC](https://community.dhis2.org/t/community-members-learning-helping-and-celebrating/49391/3 "2022-09-01T19:31:17Z")

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Yes, @jetisco4u, thank you so much for your participation! The questions you ask will help other community members too and it surely gives experts the opportunity to contribute. I wish you success in the DHIS2 learning and career path you are taking! 👍

Thank you for sharing! I believe many in the community feel the same.

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**Author:** ![jetisco4u](https://dhis2.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.dhis2.org/jetisco4u/32/39125_2.png) [@jetisco4u](https://community.dhis2.org/u/jetisco4u)\
**Post date:** [1 September 2022 20:18 UTC](https://community.dhis2.org/t/community-members-learning-helping-and-celebrating/49391/4 "2022-09-01T20:18:10Z")

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You are right about the questions asked. I have found many helpful answers from questions asked by others. I only asked if I can’t get answer already in the community.

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**Author:** ![Gassim](https://dhis2.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/community.dhis2.org/gassim/32/35347_2.png) [@Gassim](https://community.dhis2.org/u/Gassim)\
**Post date:** [2 September 2022 08:04 UTC](https://community.dhis2.org/t/community-members-learning-helping-and-celebrating/49391/5 "2022-09-02T08:04:36Z")

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💗 Thanks!
