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2017-07-06 Leadership Team Call

2017-07-06 Leadership Team Call

Jul 07, 2017

How to Join

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

Agenda

  • Date: July 06, 2017

    Attendees:

    Jan

    Darius

    Andy

    Jeff

    Mark

    Christine

    Hamish

    Informational

    • Town Hall Meeting Update - Date to reschedule?

    • July 12/19?

    • suggeted 19th after the board meeting so we can provide BOD update

    • Suggested to include a bahmni-openmrs town hall

    • Provide a consolidated announcement/update similar to annual report

    • Present information first

    • Provide opportunity for discussion based on community feedback

    • Suggested to use updates that we provide the BOD

    • Maintaining openness and transparency

    • Survey to ask if people want to hold a town hall based on the info provided?

    • Next steps: avoide scheduled/quarterly town halls

    • Use discussion pieces that warrant community input and feedback

    • avoid "talk AT the community"

    • This particular town hall requires a schedueld meeting because of Bahmni discussion

    • Idea: develop an 'announcements' list for those that don't follow Talk frequently      +1 (Jan) +2Jeff (or one, not being selfish)

    • Include Town Hall Updates as a LT discussion for next week

    • Global Goods Update-  waiting for feedback from Carl and from Lauren (monday)

    • Still working through process- first time conducting this

    • Quarterly report update 

    • Make sure to update your sections

    Discussion

    • Bahmni Update- Darius/Jan

    • update on edits of document/. distro to BoD

    • Sent to BOD on 6 July

    • Most likely will be discussed on call next week, but probably won't be resonded to until then

    • Posted to Talk for community feedback

    • "Whats the benefit of OpenMRS taking on the additional workload for this?"

    • Jan and darius spoke to president of Benitec about this type of agreement

    • reaffirmed decision to pursue this partnership

    • Update on Summit - OMRS17 - Christine

    • Tallied update from community - Malawi won nomination by 1 vote

    • In addition, Malawi better fits the criteria Paul posted 

    • Swaziland is newer in their implementation

    • Committee majority vote is for Malawi

    • Based on criteria and the community's vote, Malawi best fits the criteria and should be the location

    • Next steps

    • draft announcement

    • schedule call with Malawi team and discuss commitment and expentations

    • Invite community leaders to join the call

    • Jeff will connect Christine with Matthew for scheduling

    • After discussion with Malawi, Christine will publish announcement

    • Education/Documentation Update

    • Brian Karui - implementer in Kenya, working on implementer documentation for the community

    • 2 more volunteers want to help with documentation - specifically with bugs / Jeff following up

    • Continued "Leadership Team" discussion (deferred)

    • Diversity Council- languishing - Terry (deferred)

    • identify women from posts to intro to talk category?

    • Fiscals-- no change

    • Funding for Infrastructure- Burke (on vacation-- will schedule for next week) 

    • 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 (rescheduled for next week)

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

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

    • Suggestion to avoid specifically creating program for Impelmenters

    • Expand conception further to include more non-devs

    • BA

    • Documentation

    • etc.

    • Things to think about

    • Impleenters typically have their own funding

    • OpenMRS doesn't implement the software

    • wording; might not be an 'internship' but more of an 'implementer program'

    • fellowship program

    • Previous GSOC student moves onto this type of project

    • Difficulty bringing in non-devs to a dev centered community

    • Partnerships

    • Andela - new contract signed for 6 months worth of internships

    • sent contract over to andela after opportunity for LT feedback was provide

    • Quarterly Scrum of Scrums

    • Next Wed 6am PT/9am ET

    • uberconf/openmrs

    • Jamie posted to Talk - Darius will follow up advertise

    Weekly

    • Report on Fundraising Efforts @Andy

    • Operational Plan Update

    Monthly Items 

    • Budget/Expenses/ first Thursday

    • Partnerships- third Thursday 

    Quarterly Update (link to the quarterly status spreadsheet?)

    • 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