#CoPMonthly's 5th Anniversary - Monthly Highlights From the Heart of the DHIS2 Community! (August 2026) 💝

[Gassim (AL-Gassim Sharaf Addin)]

Hello DHIS2 Community,

Happy 5th Anniversary! Five years since the start of the copmonthly post and it’s amazing how much we have been learning, contributing, and sharing together in the DHIS2 Community of Practice. The #CoPMonlthly post is the monthly post dedicated to the community where we thank the helpful and active community members as well as share highlights and resources.

Thank you for being an amazing community!

In this month’s copmonthly post, August 2026, here’s what we will talk about:

Things to do in August 2026
Top Topics: Most popular topics from July 2026
Top Active Members: Recognition of the top ten active members of the month
The Heart of the Community: A thankful note to our Good Samaritans, Feature Finders, and Bug Hunters.
cop Monthly Challenge: A monthly quiz to refresh your DHIS2 knowledge.
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Here are things to do in July 2026:

Click here to view suggested list

• Check out the Wikis/AI: DAC2026 Thematic Summaries and the C&H Academy Technical Guide, click here.

• Check out the new DHIS2 for Humanitarian and Fragile Settings webpage, click here

• Check out the new One Health category and share your experience

• Meetups & Events:

  • This Tuesday (Tomorrow) - August 4th: LMIS and Supply Chain Meetup - August 2026: Deep Dive into CCE, EMS, and WHO PQS Plugin
  • August Developer Meetup Announcement: Behind the Scenes: App Competition 2026 Review Process & more
  • Registration is open: DHIS2 Asia-Pacific Conference 2026 in Colombo, Sri Lanka! 🎉
  • Join the weekly Server Admin Meetups

• Expert Discussions & Technical Projects:

  • Check out the DHIS2-CHAP Docker Deployment: CHAP Modeling Sierra Leone Instance - #11 by jen.jones.arnesen
  • @Mayamiko continues the metadata-series with interesting discussion questions and polls, click here to check out the latest.
  • @Elmarie_Claasen shares a helpful guide on Upgrade to 2.42. Query to view parameters for Category Configuration Limit options
  • Join @Romain-Rolland_TOHOU and @SamuelJohnson in a discussion about cloud hosting and digital sovereignty (as well as a new hosting option): Introducing yalim.cloud: Sovereign, Zero-Config DHIS2 Hosting with Deployments in Minutes - #3 by SamuelJohnson
  • Check out the technical resource shared by @peterkaberia in his DAC2026 Abstract for Automating DHIS2 Data Extraction in 34 countries - #3 by peterkaberia
  • Many community members have asked for a version 42 compatible Metadata Synchronization app, check out @eyeseetea’s update: Metadata Synchronization app v2.25.0 released
  • @ctejo from SolidLines posted a very helpful post if you want to experiment with AI Chatbot to interact with DHIS2 configuration (using MCP)

• Connect - Connectez-vous > Marketplace opportunities: There are a two positions that were posted last month - see if they are still open if you or someone you know is interested:

  • Job Opportunity - Jordan
  • Technical Consultancy Support for DHIS2 System Implementation, Tracker Configuration and Mobile Platform Support - #4 by Gassim

• DHIS2 Challenges, see section below!

Top Topics from August 2026:

The top topic from July 2026 (both most viewed and most liked) was the July 2026 Developer Meetup. Hope you will join us this August again!

It’s also an honor to mention in the anniversary of the copmonthly post, it was the second most liked topic last month, so thank you!

Are there topics from July 2026 that you find interesting? Please reply with the topic link and explain why it is interesting or important.

Top 10 Active Members in July 2026

_{*You can click on the ‘stats’ to view the public profile info*}

(Tagging here all the top ten active users in July 2026 so they receive a notification - @rehabm - @Mayamiko - @m.siusko - @HanyAly - @malekpour - @nnkogift - @Kenyuri
@arslan_mughal - @ctejo - @Lincoln_Chivhinge)

Thankful note to all helpful community members:
Good Samaritans (freely volunteering to help other community members)
Feature finders
Bug hunters

Thank you! - Click here to see the helpful community members in July 2026

Good Samaritans (voluntarily helping other community members)

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!
@malekpour | @Oleksii | @rcpoudel | @Elmarie_Claasen | @John_Painter | @Mayamiko | @Kenyuri | @abbybeeler | @irene_kimenyi | @JaimeLopez | @ctejo | @m.siusko | @Romain-Rolland_TOHOU | @SamuelJohnson | @peterkaberia | @glovercar |
(Insight Contributors: @Elmarie_Claasen | @diallotafsir52 | @WaluQ | @mutali | @banga | @bridget | @dkusiima | @Mbevi | @Waheed | @pkkonwloh79 | @nnkogift | @Mayamiko \ @dblalock | @linxd | @George_McGuire | @arslan | @shaame | @omar_aljaff | @ezbarretos | @rehabm | @Nedu.CCCRN | @alexiawadime | @ALI_HASSAN_Bouk | @fidelelukeka | @Good-alfa | @Thai_Nguyen | @nsarob | @patrickquainoo | @doulka)

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.
@malekpour | @m.siusko | @elmoujarrade

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, and follow the instructions to add ideas into the software roadmap process.
@ctejo | @linxd | @adownie |

DHIS2-Challenges:

Last month’s challenge first person to select the correct answer was: @Mayamiko Congratulations! To check out last month’s challenge click here. All who participated will receive the CoP Activity Winner badge.

The challenge for this month (August 2026):

In the last couple of challenges, the questions might have required a little bit of review and thinking, but this time we have a simple question from the Introduction to DHIS2 course.

Which of the following options could be an Organisation Unit in DHIS2?

• Country
• Immunization Program
• Health Clinic
• District
• Hospitalizations and discharges data entry form

[First person to answer correctly will be mentioned in the next copmonthly]

HINT: This question is from the Understanding the basics of DHIS2 module, within the Introduction to DHIS2 digital self-paced course, Introduction to DHIS2 | DHIS2 Online Academy

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