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Agenda
January 5, 2017
Attendees
Chris
Darius
Terry
Jeff
Michael Healy
Paul
Maurya
Jan
Burke
Hamish
Mark
Bill
Suranga
Informational
- Posting BOD Comm Member election
- Voting set to be sent out today via Burke
- will go to people who have posted to OpenMRS Talk during the last year - approximately 800 people
- individual emails to go out
- also post to talk and twitter ( people to know about this) - Jeff will do that ( give some caveats that we are sending out to people who have been active in the communtiy over the last year by posting to Talk)
- January Volunteer of the Month (Jeff/Jan)
- - will send out this week to ask for nominations
- draft by January 15; push out by February 1
- darius is going to get the data
- write up draft of "where we're going" -@Jeff
- Get letter to the community from Paul
- consider including the financial information for OpenMRS Inc in the annual report
- spin it positive in terms of money
- volunteering/partnerships- balance by focus on the finances as only one of the elements that we report our outcomes
- lots of substance to the group
- post on talk for some additional
- OpenMRS University - Education
- initial focus on implementers
- trying to answer the question "What is it that they need"
- Educational meeting later this month (January)
- Looking for specific individuals with success in implementation
- Posting to Talk and emailing those that attended Education session at OMRS16
- Developers Educational Material also pushed out already ( Burke)
- Community and BoD Quarterly Report/Annual Operational Report due Jan 15
- Most likely to deliver Annual report first, then operation report the following month
- 10,000 income and donations list ( need to see what this is with Theresa)
- Bill - good to see proper accounting... we could move towards a brief presentation of the Profit and Loss statement as well as the Balance Sheet (says Bill). I really appreciate our move towards structured reporting.
- Discussion of what to state in Annual Report. Michael suggests ".inc financial report". (Bill agrees)
- Funders might like to see (understand?) a distinction between inc and community - MH
- mock up this and see what it looks like
- impressions from the meeting
- focus of this call- what we should focus on within the operational plan
- perhaps move from monthly calls to some other format
- discussion with Ben about other ways to approach the group
- focus of calls to a specific topic and ask people with that expertise
Discussion
MHealy - decreasing frequency to less frequent
- Strategic Operational Plan
- "Is OpenMRS the right entitity for CERTAIN tasks?"
- what are the things that only we can do?***
- look for partners /opportunistic relationships to meet the other needs
- try to develop a plan that would allow us to achieve 70% of goals
- "Some of the things we're doing with the Ref. app are duplicative of other things" - Darius
Discussion
- Moving forward with limited time for OpenMRS
- desired to maintain a presence and assist in fundraising needs
- draft in two weeks/distribute end of the month
- Thursday - see budget sheet discussion above
- Advisory Group Meeting-- discussion and
- outcomes (See above discussion)
- Overall Operational Plan Update ( terry)
- Ask people assigned to specific goals to respond based on their experience
- Goal for 2017 should aim for 70% completion
- Many goals from 2016 will roll into 2017
- Mailchimp- can opt in or opt out
- current members/opt in and opt out
- consider informational emails about changes that we are doing/ updates with occasional ask
- maintained list until a year ago
- not include all the new community members in the last year
- need to update the list with people from the last year somehow
- are the people who posted to talk in the last year to figure out how to have them sign in
- manually pull emails out of talk and include them in the list
- contact form where people can opt in at the current time- currently works
Recurrent Topics
- Bring up all talk threads about the Leadership
Weekly
- Report on Personal Fundraising Efforts through the email @Jeff
- Burke: We use news list in MailChimp, but there is nothing keeping this list updated
- Jeff: There's a place on your contact page to control subscription
- Burke: What contact page? Link?
- Burke: So this is opt-in? I thought we'd want an opt-out model - i.e., anyone getting an OpenMRS ID is automatically subscribed and there's an easy way to unsubscribe (via link in emails and on OpenMRS ID)
- 3 people not in the LT per se ( though we know all of them)
- what happens when we make the donation
- how do we thank people - what is the process
- acknowledgement email in follow up
- report on donations weekly
- tax deductible indication on this
- manually until thenalso get a digital copy of thank you
- send digital copy to be automated
- Always say "Thank you" – e.g., "Thank you for supporting the community!"
- NPR _always_ says "Thank you" in their asks... and I'm sure this isn't by accident.
Future topic: Framing appeals to subscribers
Monthly Items
- Budget/Expenses/ first Thursday
- Partnerships- third Thursday
Quarterly Update
- Infrastructure Update (Quarterly - Jun, Sep, Dec)
- Ongoing Quarterly metric review of specific areas
- go through some of the numbers--and gather them before the TH and review them
- consider looking at Bitergia
Parking Lot Items
- Recurring governance structure
- OSCON 2017 Brainstorming (Dec 2015 Brainstorm for May 8-11, 2017)
- Strategic Goal Updates (every six weeks)- one each week/ ongoing
- Review suggested organizational/ community changes (need to find list MD made)
- Roles of the Community Manager
- Fundraising from community
- mailing list use and content
- fundraising/stats/general information
- who unsubscribed after Dec 16 campaign
- appeal framing (how do we not lose members w/ donation appeals)
- review SOP (after developed) for funds recepit, acknowledgement
To Do:
@Burke to send BOD vote
@Jeff to send around SM
@Jan send out VOM post
@Jeff get Paul's letter and writeup 'where we're going' for annual report
@Jeff to complete draft of OMRS16 Writeup by mid january and distribute for draft review of LT members; and ready for distribution by end of January
@Jeff to develop email calender for content as well as donation solicitation
@Jeff to send acknowledgement email and automate it
@jeff will work to revisit email list and develop SOP to maintain subscribers moving forward
- AOB
- Review next meeting agenda
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