2019 Strategy and Operations Pre-Meeting

Note: This is a draft schedule. For any of the topics, please add any sub-topics and/or questions to the table below.

Time

Topic

Discussion Questions

Tuesday, December 3, 2019: Strategy and Operations 

Location: Conference Room #3, https://uberconference.com/openmrs

Notes: https://notes.openmrs.org/2019-12-03-Strategy-and-Operations-Call

9:00-9:15

Overview Session/Getting Started





9:15-9:45

Where are we now?

  • What were our key accomplishments in 2019?
  • What challenges did we encounter?
  • What are our current and anticipated awards?
  • What is the current status of our investment?
  • What does our spending look like? 

  • Community Status

  • Progress + Highlights

  • Challenges

  • Fiscal Status

Awards


Investments 


  • Spending Trends 



9:45-10:15

Current Trends 

  • What changes are we seeing in the ecosystem?
  • What are the implications of these changes for implementations? For the community?
  • What challenges do we anticipate?

  • Ecosystem

  • Funding + Sustainability

  • Implications 



10:30-11:45

Priorities for 2020

  • What priorities do countries + implementations have for the coming year?
  • Do our objectives reflect these priorities? Do we need to adjust our objectives for the upcoming year?
  • What resources and assets exist that can be used to help us achieve our objectives?
  • Where can our combined resources and assets be used best?

  • Technology

  • Capacity

  • Community

  • Partnerships

11:45 - 12:00

Review: Key Points and Actions

What comes next?



Wednesday, December 4, 2019: Birds of a Feather

Notes: https://notes.openmrs.org/2019-12-04-Strategy-and-Operations-Call

6:00pm

OpenMRS Community at Scale

  • What values and practices have served us well as a community? 
  • As we scale, how can we organize ourselves to maximize our combined resources and assets?
  • What does it mean to be accountable? How do we hold people accountable?

  • Mission, vision, values

  • Committees, Teams, and Squads

  • Ownership

  • Accountability



7:00pm

Contributing Organizations



  • Strategies for contributing back


  • Measuring + recognizing organizations’ contributions