2017-01-26 Leadership Team Call
How to Join
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Agenda
January 26, 2017
Jan
Burke
Darius
Terry
Andy
Suranga
Jonathan
Wayne ( sends regrets)
Bill (last 1/2 hour)
Informational
next BOD meeting- being scheduled by Theresa
update on OSI featuring open source communities- Jeff/ due January 28
Dear OSI Affiliates & Sponsors,- this is from an OSI email that was sent to us
First off, Happy New Year to you all.
The OSI was contacted by the Open Education Consortium (http://www.oeconsortium.org/) to participate in their "Year of Open" campgain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXXaHBV5Hhg) which celebrates a variety of open initiatives impacting education--including open source software.
As part of the celebration, the OEConsortium is dedicating each month of the year to a particular open community of practice. They have decided to dedicate this February (yes, 17 days from now) to open source software, and asked if I can reach out to the open source software community for their thoughts around a few general questions related to open source software and communities.
I think this is a good opportunity: it will provide an great opportunity to introduce--or extend--your own projects to another audience (higher education), it will highlight the role of open source software--and particularly the OSD--as the foundation for other open initiatives, and for the OSI , it will promote our own upcoming 20th anniversary which will be next year, Feb 3rd, 2018.
I do hope you are interested. If so, can you please respond to the below four questions--and I apologize for the shire notice, but we need them by Jan 27th. You should feel free to highlight how your project aligns with education, educational institutions, etc. Also please send along a photo and logo from the project that they can use to accompany your responses.
1. What is Open Source Software?
2. Why is it important?
3. What changes do you hope it will bring (for your country/region)?
4. What is the future of Open Source Software?
The OEConsortium will document all of the responses as an artifact attached to the website, and also create a shorter promotional piece with smaller quotes.
Thanks so much, I hope you can participate, and please let me know if you have any questions,
posting of SOPs ( where is the SOP site)
Interesting article on EHR Vendors and Data Blocking
Discussion
BOD community member announcement- Burke ( 140 total responses) Jan was selected
will ask Paul to announce this - terry sent email
get board back in an active role / reconstituted
the LT will write up something to send to the BoD
expectations
potential board members
separate call between LT and Jan as we move forward on the board composition; need conversation with Bill Tierney(current chair) to introduce you
due diligence on understanding of the BoD/
feedback next week
Andela contracting signing
establishing relationship
how do we sign a legal contract- is the only organization that can sign this be the Inc
contract but doesnt say who is the organization that needs to sign it
Paul can sign and then he can inform the Board about this action- good test case for our relationships/partnerships
need proposed SOP @terry
consider adding legal review for open source groups
already started and getting up to speed
weekly catch ups with the PM people
can we do PR with Andela about the partnership?
2017 Operational Plan - Terry
where are we
what is left to do
pull out terminology - product/goal discussion about pulling it out as opposed to leaving under # 6
startegic goal is content support
potential to align with terminology work for use external to OpenMRS
Final review of annual report
Final review of OMRS16 writeup
give credit to Uganda /Evelyn and the OpenMRS leadership team
Criteria to determine optimal location for global meetings- put this into an SOP that can be tracked
Commitment to OpenMRS as a regional or country level platform for patient-level record keeping
Strong local hosting organization(s)
Ability to wrangle local resources / sponsorship
Significant local OpenMRS community activity (ie, presence of regional community within country, hackathons, longstanding community membership, etc)
Country helps support long term strategic interests of the OpenMRS community
OpenMRS BoD agenda items - Terry/Paul
please let us know your items
Google SoC - Suranga
timelines for GSoC submission deadline is soon ?? Feb 6??- organizational submission
need mentors/ project ideas
transition from Suranga to do the admin part of this- Burke has been heling fill this role at the current time
re-energize and remind people how beneficial GSoC has been to us
ask for specific projects from organizations ( PIH/ TW)
SOP
Volunteer Request - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UVtX6j85_dBD88YpaLpHfjMZjpG3J_AJShXuv7R3VoU/edit?usp=sharing
Fundraising
try to use salesforce non profit more/ training on this in two weeks
will leverage google drive for sharing
Lilly- meeting with global informatics lead in April- tentatively
to do:
@paul to send email about BoD vote
@paul to sign andela
@terry to rewrite for terminology into a new space-- done on the ops plan
@terry to post to book group to get GSoC projects and mentors- done
@jeff to do salesforce update and training
@everyone to do BoD agenda items
@jan to follow up about BoD
@everyone to do OSI write ups- done
Recurrent Topics
Search string to bring up the Talk threads for the LT calls
Weekly
Report on Fundraising Efforts @(Jeff) / @andy?
No change from online
Post Mortum - Not Started
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
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