A new year starts in about two months, but we’re not ready to end the year without a celebration! In every month of the year, we tag the helpful and active community members in copmonthly posts, celebrating the community and sharing community updates.
In this copmonthly update, in addition to the monthly tradition of honoring the community, we call you to participate in the End of Year 2025 event by registering for the event as well as sending your submissions to present about your experience in the DHIS2 Community. 
Things to do in November 2025:
- Send your presentation for the EoY2025 event!
- Check out what the community voted for the topics they are interested in for the Implementation insights series: New Webinar Series - Implementation Insights. Help us select the topics!
- Register for the New maintenance app & deduplication of metadata webinar November 12, 2025: Webinar : Features Spotlights for October and November 2025 - Mobile Implementation Support & Deduplication of Metadata
- Check out the Online Academy “Learner Voices!”: Explore DHIS2 "Learner Voices"—five stories from the Online Academy!
- Join the community meetups: Developer Meetups, Server Admin Meetups
For this post (October 2025), here’s what we will talk about:
Top Topics:
Top Topics from October 2025
- Top Active Members in October 2025 (new slideshow format)
- Thankful note to all helpful community members:
Good Samaritans (freely volunteering to help other community members)
Feature Finders
Bug Hunters- cop Monthly Challenge
- copmonthly Map
Top Topics:
Top Topics from October 2025
The top topic from October 2025 was “2025 Asia Pacific Conference: Agenda and Streaming Information.”
We hope that you had the chance to participate in the HISP Asia Pacific Conference 2025 (virtually or in-person), you can continue to ask questions related to the sessions in the topic post where you can also find links to the recordings: 2025 Asia Pacific Conference: Agenda and Streaming Information
This question from @jthomas got some community attention, what are your thoughts on this topic? DHIS2 as EMR - Seeking a fresh perspective in the context of DHIS2 2.42 and above
While these announcements are new, they have already received the most likes: Search results for 'after:2025-09-30 in:first order:likes' - DHIS2 Community
Thank you for being a wonderful community and thanks for your continuous interest in the copmonthly!
Are there topics from October 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 October 2025
*user profiles summarized by AI using public profile info*(Tagging here all the top ten active users in June 2025 so they receive a notification - @gregory @HanyAly @Mayamiko @rehabm @Minwiyelet_Fiseha
@ctejo @Imtiaz @Mbevi @jthomas @pma)
Thankful note to all helpful community members:
Good Samaritans (freely volunteering to help other community members)
Feature finders
Bug hunters
Thank you! (click to view đź’Ś)
And thanks to all helpful members (October 2025),
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!
@MiquelAdell | @Elmarie_Claasen | @HanyAly | @irene_kimenyi | @Vishwanideep_Kumar | @belewgodano | @chingalo | @Norah_Stoops | @Tahir_Zaman | @Kenyuri | @davidmatthis | @WaluQ | @Eric_Youm | @SamuelJohnson | @jthomas | @Sabino_muvale | @GUY_ROLLAND_KOUASSI | @gregory | @nas | @jamal_aljadan | @Stephan_Mestach | @ctejo | @dkusiima | @e4eDHIS2 | @dmbantu | @Ulanbek
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.
@kateshih | @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, and follow the instructions to add ideas into the software roadmap process. 
@rehabm |
DHIS2-Challenges:
In last month’s challenge, the first person to vote for the correct answer was: @ericchingalo 
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 (November 2025):
This will be quite an easy question even for those who haven’t taken the Event Configuration Fundamentals course 
- Basic and Advanced programs
- Event and Tracker programs correct
- Simple and Complex programs
- Data Entry and Analysis programs
[First person to answer correctly will be mentioned in the next copmonthly]
HINT:
This question is from the Module 3 – Create Event Program and Data Entry Form within the Event Configuration Fundamentals digital self-paced course, Event Configuration Fundamentals | DHIS2 Online Academy
EoY2025
Call for Presentations: End of Year 2025 Community Event! 
Dear Helpful Community Members,
Here’s a humble invitation to present at the DHIS2 Community of Practice End of Year 2025 Community Event! We are honored to hear about your experience in the DHIS2 Community, so if you’d like to be one of the presenters in this special event send us your presentation.
Helpful community members (anyone tagged in a 2025 CoPmonthly post) are invited to submit a presentation about their experience in the community. This event is our chance to have our online global community event, share feedback, valuable lessons learned, and inspire each other as a community.
Suggested topics (not to exceed 10 minutes) can include:
- Your personal story in how you joined, participated, and benefited from the community
- For Developers: How the DHIS2 Community has helped you as a DHIS2 Developer
- DHIS2 projects you are involved in (reflecting on the community’s role)
- Lessons Learned or Feedback for the community
Presentation Submission Deadline: November 24, 2025, (Topics are open for all including developers and non-English speakers)
Send presentation to community@dhis2.org
Event Date: 2025-12-11T10:00:00Z→2025-12-11T11:00:00Z
Join the awesome list of past community presenters :
2021: @vikwato @Wuniche @arifazadkhan
2022: @janagha @tuzoengelbert @mutali
2023: @plinnegan @Mayamiko @sami.oracle10g
2024: @Matthew_Boddie @Bhavana_Narayanan @Waheed
2025: 
it’s your chance! Send your presentations to community@dhis2.org
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?
- Complete your profile info (profile picture + country)
- Members with the above info are tagged in the map when they help other community members
List of nominated members to present in End of Year 2025 event: