2017-02-16 Leadership Team Call

How to Join

Contact @Jeff Neiman for more information on how to join the call.

Agenda

• 2017-02-16 Leadership Team Agenda

  Attendees:

   Andy Kanter

   Jeff Neiman   

   Terry Cullen

   Jonathan Teich

   Paul

   Burke

  Jan

  Hamish

  Agenda

  Informational

  • Bitergia (Darius)

  • Analytics company that did a demo for OpenMRS 1 year ago

  • Very expensive to have set up

  • There is an open source version that would require effort from OpenMRS to set up

  • No identified volunteers to lead this project

  • Possibly a GSOC project

  • Conference News Release - Open Health News

  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/18q_RbPNv_4yo0x0MQ88GHL1wH0HxF0KnLDViUR45RXw/edit

  • Roger provided feedback on document and requested three additional sections be added (Added to document as "comments")

  • Opening ceremony

  • Closing Ceremony

  • Why was this conference held in Uganda?

  Discussion

  • Board of Directors Meeting- Paul ( see the BoD Wiki page on OpenMRS for details)

  • Discussing the process to make decisions

  • Presenting Jan as the new Community Board Member

  • Annual Report Update

  • https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_y29Xu_eUu9QWVnS1hjYk5od1E/view

  • Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1umiPTEKiIOQVPPArpqkDqWgh3x7DSxHhnm8bqlLDgjU/edit

  • Require a 'Moving Forward' letter

  • LT decided that reducing content down to more of a highlight reel would be best

  • @Terry to reduce document

  • Operational Plan Update

  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A5HpeyAodzkvGZFsRcovUqeQPG_TSdkmPUPLhLOpUOU/edit

  • Will be presented to BOD

  • Technical update-- Burke/Darius (include project management/scrum of scrums) 

  • suggests at minimum, the quarterly range, for updates to be presented by project managers.

  • Fast Forward Seeks Applications for Technology Accelerator Program

  • Jeff to begin application process through collaborative google documents

  • Organizations selected to participate the Fast Forward program will receive a $25,000 grant, thirteen weeks of summer training in San Francisco, and connections to a network mentors.

  • Community to decide who should represent OpenMRS

  • @Jeff to get clarification on time commitment for '13 weeks'

  • Partnerships - Jan

  • Andela going well ( letter signed ) 

  • Soldevelo and Steven M is going well also

  • GSOC - Burke

  • application in

  • SoC has projects listed on the wiki page

  • om.rs/soc16... but not yet!

  • Case study highlighting GSOC winners- Jeff

  • develop framing and documents 

  • @Jeff to start a google doc of questions to ask

  • OpenMRS Google winner

  • Upcoming conferences 

  • guidance for site selection- 

  • Paul posted to Talk, Bill started a Google Doc 

  • started to establish a backup plan if an implementing country isn't able to accomodate

  • Terry suggested the next steps would be to post proposed criteria to Talk community for input

  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bx37qbn7SXUJ4cPRPE80tes_O_TEi2Z41GIL6lv01Ic/edit

  • christine wants to facilitate as the conference lead

  • summit/ implementers conference 

  • focused on implementation and support

  • side bars to discuss openMRS internal/leadership

  • back up strategy would be for a summit if no implementers interest  

  • leadership team/ thread on Talk - add to agenda for next week @Jeff

  • Cintia's comment: https://talk.openmrs.org/t/please-review-and-comment/10025/31

  • leadership role/composition/

  • 'leadership' (leaders versus they--the power of language reflects what we are doing) 

  • create more opportunities for engagement /involvement

  • subversion vs git 

  • we and us and not us and them 

  • 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 list 

  Recurrent Topics

  • Bring up all talk threads about the Leadership Call 

  • https://talk.openmrs.org/tags/leadership-mtg

  • All discussion among the Leadership team can be found via https://talk.openmrs.org/c/community/leadership

  Weekly

  • Report on Fundraising Efforts

  • $2,321.61

  • 13 Donors (1 Additional on Feb 9)

  • Andy still needs to get trained by Jeff on Salesforce as soon as Annual report is finished.

  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

  Parking Lot Items

  • http://openmrs.org/about/support/

  • 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

Notes