2017-05-04 Leadership Team Call

2017-05-04 Leadership Team Call

How to Join

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

Agenda

May 4, 2017

Attendees:

    Jan

    Hamish

    Burke

    Christine

    Darius

    Jeff

    Terry

    

Informational

  • Fast Forward Accellerator Program- Jan/Jeff

  • Requires a strict definition of a 'founder' to be present at each meeting in san francisco

  • Volunteer of the Month- Cintia for last month ; will have this in process for next month

  • Tech Update- burke  

  • updates ongoing 

Discussion

  • OpenMRS as a global good- due May 5 - 

  • ci=onsider including 1,2, 6 and distribution providers 

  • Directions: use the template to provide a high level view of the budget needs.

  • High level budget gap analysis

  • Current total annual budget for software development  (USD)% of current budget spent on core software development and support (vs. implementation-specific work)

  • Current annual spend on core software development (calculated)

  • Annual funding needed to fully support core software development for long-term growth (USD)

  • Bahmni and OpenMRS - @Darius

  • Advisory Council Update - Bahmni coalition presented asking for advice on OpenMRS participation- we didnt get specific feedback on how to participate

  • focus was on should we participate during the conversation

  • info about the BoD and the role wiht Bahmni

  • we will need to figure out how we are participating and in what manner

  • we have to notify the BoD - can let the BoD know that we are considering this option and sharing it with the BoD and getting feedback to that option

  • TIming

  • Darius posts to Talk ( Monday/Tuesday)

  • we send information to the BoD about what we are discussing with the community

  • gather feedback from the community

  • represent to the LT call

  • gather information from the LT call and develop/endorse a recommendation

  • share that recommendation with the BoD and ask for their comments

  • Making money for OpenMRS

  • can we be our own organization with offerings and add indirects to our billing

  • what are ways for us to develop a business model to move our work along

  • is there a way to do evaluations/ assessments/ fill some gaps with our team that will allow us to sustain our organizations

  • we can 'sell' ourselves or collbaorate with others 

  • core support offerings - dev shop, whether hired directly or within partner orgs

  • what about filling the role that TW has been doing now that TW is scaling back

  • can we talk to TW about picking up those implementation dev needs for those that they are not going to be supporting?

  • implementer training? (not actual implementation)

  • not being prime on implementation would be a goal - 

  • training local service providers to support an implementation would be in our purview

  • thought leadership - how could we do this w/o competing against our dayjobs

  • discussion about multiple needs

  • e.g. appointment scheduling in the product

  • need to figure out how to do this

  • next steps- develop some business models

  • few different models to explore what we could offer

  • principle of agreeing to do things that do not hurt any other member of our community

  • Budget/Expenses- pending from Theresa P

  • Partnerships @Jan

  • OSL Support (deferred)

  • BoD Membership Update- Paul - no update today 

Recurrent Topics

  • Weekly

  • Report on Fundraising Efforts - Jeff

  • OMRS17 Locations

  • Operational Plan Update

  • 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

Notes