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2017-03-02 Leadership Team Call

2017-03-02 Leadership Team Call

Mar 22, 2017

How to Join

Contact Jamie Thomas for more information on how to join the call.

Agenda

Attendees

Bill

Jeff

Christine

Terry

Paul

Andy

Jan

Hamish

Mark

Suranga

Michael 

Excused

Burke ( on wards) 

Agenda

Informational

  • Fast Forward Accelerator Program 

  • at least one of the founders need to attend in person on July 6-7, July 19-20, August 2-3, August 16-17, August 30-31, September 13-14, and September 26 -27

  • comment from Andy- the ideal person would actually be a new executive director who is leading the "new" OpenMRS; we arent there yet though 

  • Please contribute to the application questions!

  • discussion about what it means to be a 'founder' within the community

  • might be easy for people on the west coast - Jan has volunteered / one person from the group can also attend 

  • reach out directly 

  • GSOC - OpenMRS accepted as a mentoring group- Suranga 

  • accepted new leaders 

  • looking for mentors and onboarding of students ( different cost index of reimbursement based on where people live) 

  • sign up and encourage mentors

  • registration and advertisement 

  • retweet and share 

  • Annual Report Final Draft created- Jeff 

  • Call/ working group  scheduled on Friday to collaborate on final edits

  • GCI Case Study Google Doc- Nji Collins- Jeff 

  • Tech update- Burke/Darius

  • software side is moving along

  • infrastructure is a little concerning ( inability to get OpenMRS IDs for people) 

  • Fundraising Update

  • Paul going to Skoll Global Forum  ( social entrepreneurship) 

  • Budget Update- one week delay 

Discussion

  • Upcoming events and Conferences @Christine

  • did we agree to criteria for the hosting site for the next OpenMRS conference? did we publish that?

  • move with the criteria @bill

  • actionable document 0.1 

  • linking the folder rather than the doc, as I've also started adding some structure to that folder.

  • @Jeff - do you have other scattered, or non-filed documents to add from this year's meeting?  Or, a link to another folder to add into the README document?

  • @Terry - updated the document during this meeting

  • I doubt it, but I'll check. I'll make sure they're all in the OMRS16 folder and share the link to that folder

  • next implementers meeting-- 

  • what is the next site of the conference- we need to put out a call for this and identify who is the right place

  • identify people who have worked on the last /previous meetings to help identify the steps that need to be done

  • working session call

  • use one of the current calls 

  • what are the community expectations 

  • Christine to post to Talk requesting a call with previous conference organizers

  • ? attendance at ? OSCON 2017 Brainstorming (Dec 2016 Brainstorm for May 8-11, 2017)

  • who may be interested in going to this

  • diversity scholarships to attend 

  • OMRS16 Survey Findings

  • @Matt 

  • Universal enthusiasm for the mission and the work that OpenMRS is doing

  • Sense of comradary

  • Improvements

  • managing growth

  • OpenMRS continual expansion into new countries

  • The community itself is also growing

  • Developers feel strongly that the community stay as pure to an open source community as possible

  • Many people recognize the need for a structured team within OpenMRS

  • technical issues

  • Update from Advisory Committee (defer discussiont to next week)

  • Leadership discussion from Talk 

  • new path forward ...

  • community engagement on the topic of 'community governance' 

  • how could we organize ourselves in a way that fits better who we are

  • is there some innovative ways for us to do this

  • maybe ask if someone from the community would be willing to faciliate the conversation 

  • think about the role of the book club and when we use that lis

  • discussion about user/tech/install manuals and potential need to update

Recurrent Topics

  • Bring up all talk threads about the Leadership Call 

Weekly

  • Report on Fundraising Efforts

  • No update on funds

  • Andy, Paul, and Jeff will be meeting next Thursday at 11am ET for a 'deep dive' into salesforce training and capabilities

Monthly Items

* Budget/Expenses/ first Thursday

* Partnerships- third Thursday 

Quarterly Update

  • Infrastructure Update (Quarterly - Jun, Sep, Dec)

  • Diversity Council

  • Ongoing Quarterly metric review of specific areas

  • who is contributing code

  • volunteer contributions

Parking Lot Items

  • Recurring governance structure

  • OSCON 2017 Brainstorming (Dec 2015 Brainstorm for May 8-11, 2017)- moved above due to timing

  • 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

Notes

@Jeff Neiman complete annual report
@Jeff Neiman begin GSOC Case Study

@Jeff Neiman organize OMRS16 documents in google drive