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Agenda
2017-02-16 Leadership Team Agenda
Attendees:
Andy Kanter
Jeff Neiman
Terry Cullen
Jonathan Teich
Paul
Burke
Jan
Hamish
Agenda
Informational
- 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
- Conference News Release - Open Health News
- Roger provided feedback on document and requested three additional sections be added (Added to document as "comments")
- 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
- Require a 'Moving Forward' letter
- LT decided that reducing content down to more of a highlight reel would be best
- @Terry to reduce document
- 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'
- Andela going well ( letter signed )
- Soldevelo and Steven M is going well also
- 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
- 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
- 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
- leadership role/composition/
- 'leadership' (leaders versus they--the power of language reflects what we are doing)
- create more opportunities for engagement /involvement
- we and us and not us and them
- 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
Weekly
- Report on Fundraising Efforts
- 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)
- Ongoing Quarterly metric review of specific areas
- go through some of the numbers--and gather them before the TH and review them
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
Notes
