Date

10 November 2011

How To Join

Contact ~dawn for more information on how to join the call.

In Attendance

Paul Biondich
Hamish Fraser
Dairus Jazyayeri
Burke Mamlin
Chris Seebregts
Dawn Smith

Agenda

Minutes

DBA: "Doing Business As" for the NGO

Review of Weekly Forums

Process to Add New Individuals to the Leadership Group

• Burke's Straw man
  • Persons heavily invested in OpenMRS via time/action/leadership
  • Persons who can contribute to leadership level decision-making without making things personal/argumentative/religious – i.e., persons who put the good of the organization ahead of their own needs.
  • For the sake of argument, persons who could join any leadership call – e.g., if someone is inappropriate for the leadership calls, then they probably don't need to be on the leadership list. Not everyone on the list needs to join the calls, but it would be easier if we didn't try to manage "exclusive" calls on the list (or create a "really leadership" list to manage such calls).
• Darius: Historically the leadership calls have been leadership of the OpenMRS project and discussions borader than just the what the OpenMRS project has been doing
• Dawn: What are characteristics of individuals in the leadership group?
  • Hamish: Someone who is a user and a participant in the organization
  • Hamish: People who have key roles in their organizations, decision-making responsibilities, systems strengthening
  • Chris S: Individuals who are a part of the management team for the OpenMRS NGO
  • Darius: Chris mentions the "OpenMRS enterprise". In this leadership team we've tried to be that OpenMRS enterprise. Where did that go?
• Dawn: Are there differences between the purpose of the leadership call and leadership email list, do they have different purposes? There are different types of leadership teams that we may need to consider. Hamish and another individual can be on leadership teams, but they wouldn't have the same roles based on their responsibilities and interests.

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