Hello everyone!
For March’s developer community meetup, happening 2026-03-12T10:00:00Z, we have several interesting things in store for you:
- The Annual App Competition: before the meetup, we’ll publish an announcement for this year’s DAC App & Extension Competition. We’ll talk about the process, how we evaluate extensions to narrow them down to a top 3, and highlights from previous years. We hope to see your extensions!
- Accessibility 101: Our designer at DHIS2, Joe Cooper (@joecooper), will present some of the most important principles to follow when developing apps to make them accessible and usable to as many users as possible. Accessible interfaces ensure the effectiveness of a product, and can sometimes be part of project requirements for extensions. He’ll cover keyboard navigation, use of color, contrast, and other principles that are key to making accessible interfaces, and take time for questions and discussion
- Community contribution - Custom DHIS2 app templates: Derrick IRADUKUNDA (@derricknuby) from HISP Rwanda recently contributed a new feature to the DHIS2 developer tools: the ability to use custom app templates when bootstrapping a new app with the DHIS2 CLI tools. For example, he’s created a template that builds in the use of the Tailwind CSS framework. Derrick will share about this useful new feature and his experience developing it
To register for the meetup, please click this link. Upon registering, you will receive a DM on the CoP with the Zoom link for the event, and you’ll receive an email with a calendar invitation for the time slot. If you have registered before, you can use the same meeting link.
Looking forward to seeing you there!