2020-07-20 Project Management Meeting

GSOC

@Suthagar Kailayapathy @Moses Mutesasira

Coding phase 2 is still ongoing. Everything is moving on smoothly.

Platform and reference Release updates

@Jennifer Antilla

• Cliff has been selected to be the platform release manager. 

• Nathan and Kaweesi  are the release manager mentors.

• TAC to come up with the roadmap for the release for further guidance on the way forward.

OCL for OpenMRS updates

@Grace Potma

• There is a sudden reduction in development resources. A plan is underway to see that there can be effective handover from Lincoln.

• MSF has coordinated with Thought works to provide additional development resources

• There is a dependency on OCL and CIEL processes that potentially slow down this work 

• Grace is discussing ways to address this with Burke, Andy, and Jon Payne

• Long term solutions might/can be included in proposal to be submitted to DS on Friday

GSOD updates

@Herbert Yiga, @grace nakiguli

Steps to follow in the selection of projects (Herbert is GSOC Admin, with Grace N; support from Daniel & Jen)

• Creating a poll on choosing the best project by the community

• calling out  those who will make the review

• Creating a scoring framework to guide the reviews

• creating a spreadsheet for the mentors to fill in their details of the results

Review SOP for posting notes and videos after meetings

@Grace Potma

• Each committee to make sure that the notes are transferred to the wiki page.

• The PM team, however is to guide all squads on how to document the notes.

• PM team to come up with a guideline on how to document the calls and also to document what this team is going to practice.

Feedback on suggestion to post Release Dates, Sprint Dates in a live Confluence Calendar

@Grace Potma

• A release calendar has been designed to highlight upcoming events and also to help the squads follow the timelines. 

• It will also help the community to always be aware of upcoming events.

• It will be rolled out and then evaluated in two or three months.

Proposal to try 30 min meetings with PM Squad by @grace

@Grace Potma

This is intended to give people more time for other openmrs activities. We shall see how things move in a couple of weeks and come back to it later.

Proposal for PM Squad team survey: to learn about individuals’ interests and goals

@Jennifer Antilla

A survey is underway to collect information about the PM squad to know individual interests, challenges and how they can be helped to perform better.
 A link is attached
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWKI4pK8MOhLWgLow7AKPLdc4enYSZZrKWW2V-4bmQyTKk9Q/viewform