🌟 New Community Badges, CoP Sharing Options, Guidelines and More! (#CoPMonthly – April 2025)

In the copmonthly post, we are proud to highlight community member’s participation and give them recognition for their contributions, and as a monthly post, we keep in touch with the entire global community.

New CoP Updates:

Only Two Weeks Left to Get These New Badges:

Quality Ambassador First to report a critical bug in the beta test campaign.
Beta Tester Participated in beta test campaign and submitted a bug report.
Badges designed by @leticia

To get these badges, you will need to participate in the beta test campaign, read latest announcement: Open Invitation to Beta Test DHIS2 v42 and Android Capture App

New Sharing Options in the CoP:
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Community is all about sharing! Thank you @Mbevi for sharing your thoughts with us and the world… the CoP now has new sharing options, read more here: Sharing DHIS2 Community Topics via WhatsApp

Updated Community Guidelines:

Check out our updated and customized community guidelines: FAQ - DHIS2 Community


We’re only about two months away from the DHIS2 Annual Conference, so there’ll be a lot to share in the coming period, remember to watch the tag: dac2025


For this post (April 2025), here’s what we will talk about today:

  • :top: Top Topics:

    • Announcements (most recent)
    • Top Topics from March 2025
  • :zap: Top Active Members of March 2025 (new slideshow format)

  • :heart: Thankful note to all helpful community members:

    • :pray: Good Samaritans (freely volunteering to help other community members)
    • :framed_picture: Feature Finders
    • :bug: Bug Hunters
  • :dizzy: cop Monthly Challenge

  • :world_map: copmonthly Map

  • We’re Almost There! (topics that need a little more support - will be posted as a separate post) :new_button:

:top_arrow: Top Topics:

Check out these announcements:

  1. Join These Upcoming Webinars:
    April 3rd: Webinar : ICD-11 Cause of Death App
    April 9th: Webinar : Features Spotlights for April 2025 - Data Integrity & the Android APK distribution web app
    April 23rd: Webinar : Features Spotlights for April 2025 - Data Integrity & the Android APK distribution web app

  2. Registration is still open for the in-person Data Use and Triangulation Academy

Top Topics from March 2025

Check out top topics: CoP in your region/country, Capture plugin discussions, members found solutions, & marketplace announcement

:heart: Community Members from Papua New Guinea continue to share and connect through the CoP: Papua New Guinea DHIS2 Community , are you interested in organizing local initatives to connect with your DHIS2 Community locally, read more here.

:tada: Community discussions lead to Capture plugin updates and improvements: Customize Event Program

:white_check_mark: Top topics where community members found solutions:
@MohinderS Migration towards DHIS2.41 - Java/Tomcat Version compatibility - #6 by MohinderS
@ramavat List of TEI in Event Form - #6 by ramavat

From the #marketplace: (@H.Bhebhe SATREGIONAL) Open position for the community Advert for Short-term contract: DHIS 2 Developer

:tada: :heart: Thanks to our community members interest in the copmonthly, last month’s post was a top topic as well: #CoPMonthly – March 2025: A Strong Start, A Stronger Year! - #6 by Gassim :tada:

Are there topics from March 2025 that you found interesting? Please reply with the topic link and explain why you found it interesting or important.

Top 10 Active Members in March 2025

user profiles summarized by AI using public profile info

(Tagging here all the top ten active users in March 2025 so they receive a notification - @Eng.Ali_Hameed @m.siusko @nnkogift @ramavat @bhaindapa @JaimeLopez @Linea_Ngwali @Anne_Trinidad @Mayamiko @eyeseetea)

:heart: Thank you!

This is the heart of the post as much as it’s the heart of the community - our helpful community members’ contributions.

Helpful Members in March 2025
  • Thankful note to all helpful community members:
    • :folded_hands: Good Samaritans (freely volunteering to help other community members)
    • :framed_picture: Feature finders
    • :lady_beetle: Bug hunters

And thanks to all helpful members (March 2024),

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!
@Mbevi | @ejimba | @kandarpjoshi | @eyeseetea | @gregory | @ramavat | @nnkogift | @Mr_jorge | @Mayamiko | @jthomas | @Don_Vieira | @Norah_Stoops | @SamuelJohnson | @dmaritim | @rcpoudel | @MiquelAdell | @Christiansaka | @antonia | @thisisdaryn | @Good-alfa | @JaimeLopez | @m.siusko | @arnold | @Ulanbek | @Abumere_Ejakhegbe | @sele | @ezbarretos | @KathyBuelens | @lawrencebyson | @mkannan | @MohinderS | @clifordc | @cnwosu

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.
@didate | @Gregory | @kateshih | @caalami | @Eng.Ali_Hameed

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. :+1:


DHIS2-Challenges:

In last month’s challenge, the first person to vote for the correct answer was: @Mbevi :tada: Congratulations! To check out last month’s challenge click here All who participated receive the CoP Activity Winner badge today.

The challenge for this month (April 2025):

Today’s question will help you remember the difference between Tracker and Aggregate! :grin:

Which of the following is a key limitation of the aggregate data model in DHIS2?
  • A. Inability to collect data on specific age groups.
  • B. Difficulty tracking individuals through a treatment course.
  • C. Limited capacity for data analysis and reporting.
  • D. Excessive complexity in data collection workflows.
0 voters

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

HINT:

This question is from the Module 1 – Introduction to Event and Tracker Concepts within the Event Data Capture and Analysis Fundamentals digital self-paced course, Event Data Capture and Analysis Fundamentals | DHIS2 Online Academy

copmonthly map

Please feel free to PM if you want your picture updated/removed; if you are tagged above but can’t see your picture, please send us your country info and/or your profile picture.

Want to be added to the copmonthly map?

  1. Complete your profile info (profile picture + country)
  2. Members with the above info are tagged in the map when they help other community members

:arrow_right: UP NEXT:

Stay tuned as we’re posting a new topic post in our new CoP help-solve topic series: :white_check_mark: Help Solve These Community Questions! :white_check_mark:

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Thanks for the accolades.
Always pleasure to keep in touch and participate in the copmonthly challenges

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