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2017-06-22 Leadership Team Call

2017-06-22 Leadership Team Call

Jun 23, 2017

How to Join

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

Agenda

  • Agenda June 22, 2017

    Attendees:

        

        Bill

        Terry

        Jeff

        Jonathan

        Mark

        Ellen

        Darius 

        Wyclif

    Informational

    • Town Hall Meeting- tentatively scheduled for June 28 at 1 PM EDT - Jeff

    • agenda items

    • coordinator - jeff may be able to do this if need be

    • Global Goods Update- Terry- no current update

    • Bahmni 

    • Terry to reach out for potential inclusion in the next round 

    • Operational Plan second quarter-- please update your information ( second URL) 

    • what isn't working

    • what is at risk

    • how can we help you? 

    Discussion

    • Web update-- Jeff

    • Only 10 people can reply ( free version) 

    • Already sent to Infrastructure, Developers, and Implementers

    • Most people aren't using the site on a daily basis

    • input from 'outside' perspective  

    • Evo

    • TW people

    • Jeff's wife...

    • Bahmni Update- Darius/Jan

    • governance- asked for response to the proposed governance

    • requesting funding from PATH ( seeking funding) 

    • response to BoD concerns 

    • Talk update needed

    • legal input- 

    • structure some of the discussion around explicit risk/benefits (rewards) 

    • what does OpenMRS get from this? what is the benefit and the value add to OpenMRS and the OpenMRS community? 

    • what do we exist for? What are we trying to do? what does OpenMRS  have that is unique or a value add? 

    • does retaining control matter 

    • who do we want to be/ what is our path forward

    • potential for more engagement in OpenMRS eco-system ( awareness/ facilitate/direct impact) 

    • does the relationship with Bahmni bring an opportunity for additional development/ awareness within the OpenMRS community overall? 

    • opportunity that co-exists because of this proposal ( darius role and potential for impact on OpenMRS community) 

    • positions OpenMRS to have larger impact- as we engage in a larger open collaboration ( Bahmni coalition)

    • political and community collaboration impact - one of our goals is to enable collaboration and this may provide an expedited pathway to this 

    • larger product lines-- may be more difficult to show value of the collaboration 

    • Bahmni as a ditribution provided 'on top' functionality

    • how does this help OpenMRS have more options for integration into a larger suite 

    • supports additional distributions with value added to the portfolio

    • make sure that it is  easy to understand our engagement-- be able to answer the Why we did this

    • clear understanding of the relationship between OpenMRS and this engagement 

    • Advisory Committee- deferred time due to July 4th ( and lots of people indicating that they cant attend); rescheduled for  July 19)

    • Proposed Agenda Item

    • How much focus should we be giving Distributions?  Should we continue to encourage more of them, bring them together to share code, etc?

    • Bahmni

    • eSaude

    • KenyaEMR

    • UgandaEMR

    • Philippines CHITS

    • Update on Summit - OMRS17 - Christine

    • Kenya- strong application

    • Swaziland- pending info on visa policy and airport transfers 

    • Malawi- strong application

    • OMRS16 After Action Review

    • METS is willing to help advise us this year

    • "Planning an OpenMRS Conference"

    • reach out to other countries from a partnership perspective for future opportunities ( Haiti/ Central America/ Uganda/Ghana) 

    • Funding for Infrastructure- Burke ( on wards); deferred until Burke back from wards 

    • should we take OpenMRS money to fund this ( how much are we talking about?)

    • how much do we need

    • how do we fund it

    • potential for 'internships'- Jeff/Terry

    • is there a need/a way to do this?

    • We encourage them to post to the Job Board if they're post school.

    • Some people request opportunities for non-dev roles, how would we mobilize them?

    • Diversity Council- languishing

    • Fiscals

    • Sustain OSS

    • tech and OS community/OS sustainment for projects

    • DIAL - part of the UN Foundation

    • Big grant to disrupt current ICT international development 

    • Michael is community lead ( under Jeff Wishney)

    • best practices

    • impact of more partnerships

    • shared resources/ shared services

    • may be most interested in earlier role in getting OS projects

     

    Weekly

    • Report on Fundraising Efforts @Andy

    • 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

    • go through some of the numbers--and gather them before the TH and review them

    Parking Lot Follow Up items

    • Follow up re:  Pathway to Improved Terminology Management for the OpenMRS Community - Jonathan Payne ( update) - deferred

    • Next steps:

    • review google doc and engage on talk thread

Notes