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2017-07-13 Leadership Team Call

2017-07-13 Leadership Team Call

Jul 14, 2017

rHow to Join

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

Agenda

  • July 13, 2017

    Attendees: 

        Andy (first half)

        Terry

        Paul

        Jeff

        Jan

        Darius

        Mark

        Bill

        Christine

        Ellen

        

    Informational

    • Town Hall Meeting Update (19th during University session is conflicting with Advisory Council Meeting

    • will do on July 26 

    • Suggested to include a joint bahmni-openmrs town hall

    • Jan can join- schedule 

    • Darius can be on that day -

    • public post about the idea

    • questions and answers/ publicize more prior to the date of the meeting 

    • GSoC Update- Suranga/etc- going fine; lots of positive feedback at the current time ( lots of Talk posts) 

    • Global Goods Update-   feedback from Carl and from Lauren 

    • unlock more resources from multiple agencies; USAID may make additional funding in next CoAG with a Gates matching proposal 

    • in process of building process for board ( review/evaluate proposals and make decisions)- first review in October

    • Quarterly report update - due to the BOD Friday! :)

    • Make sure to update your sections

    • Jeff needs Talk analytics

    • Jeff at school (congrats!)

    • Starting Aug 28 and I'll reduce time I spend on OpenMRS initially and will increase time as I settle in

    Discussion

    • Bahmni Update- Darius/Jan

    • what are the next steps? 

    • role of OpenMRS as a fiscal sponsor

    • is the contracting that we are facilitating consistent with the OpenMRS mission-- Paul will follow up on this and check it 

    • can move this ahead without waiting for BOD to comment 

    • Update on Summit - OMRS17 - Christine ( Jan, Jeff, Christine) 

    • scheduled call with Malawi team and discuss commitment and expectations July 13

    • Malawi would prefer the Nov 27-Dec 1, but we'll need to revisit those exact dates and possibly push them 2-3 days later because of Thanksgiving weekend. They said they were flexible as long as it didnt' go into Dec 8

    • comfortable with posting to OpenMRS Talk the commitment of Malawi

    • concerned with Code base not being open currently

    • Will be having a meeting soon and code will be open after  ? what time? 

    • PIH / Ellen knows more - have visited Baobab, Lighthouse

    • In 81 Health Centers

    • what is important for the implementers meeting

    • OpenMRS Distribution- code has to be open source/ have to use the platform 

    • how active a contributor should you be to the OpenMRS community 

    • Need to confirm that the code is open source  (intent and willingness is needed) 

    • Paul will reach back out about the current commitment in Malawi 

    • expressed intent  from MOH to use OpenMRS platform 

    • PIH team may be willing to help participate/ explain what they are doing there / based on official OpenMRS release 

    • what else is needed to help Christine - will decide the timing of the announcement  after Paul has conversation 

    • OpenMRS BOD Call

    • any ideas for the agenda? what do you want to include? 

    • Bahmni

    • Andela partnership / Sol Develo partnership

    • participation in the Town Hall and the Summit

    • scheduled for July 14

    • Funding for Infrastructure- Burke

    • Burke indicated the following:

    • Hiring full time in Indy- 130K/year ( unlikely that we can have this) 

    • Infrastructure via Jetstreams – which is a donation from RI at the current time

    • Finding & hiring a sysadmin who’s outside the US.

    • Look into hiring a freelance sysadmin through something like Toptal or Upwork (my first random google hits). Assuming (randomly off the top of my head) 20 hours/week x 50 weeks x $50/hour, that’s $50k (for a half-time freelance sysadmin for a year)

    • Finding a sysadmin grad student who wants to make OpenMRS Infrastructure their thesis.

    • ?Other ideas

    • Burke will be back next week so we can defer an indepth conversation until then but we need to think about our options. 

    • helpful to understand the current budget 

    • Diversity Council-Terry 

    • identify and invite women from posts to intro to talk category- are people ok with that? 

    • Potential for 'internships'- Jeff/Terry 

    • 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

    • Implementers 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

    • Continued "Leadership Team" discussion

    • Fiscals-- no change

    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