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2017-08-03 Leadership Team Call

2017-08-03 Leadership Team Call

Aug 04, 2017

rHow to Join

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

Agenda

August 3, 2017

Attendees:

    Terry

    Christine

    Burke

    Jeff

    Mark

    Wyclif

    Darius

    Jonathan

    Paul

    stephen smith

Informational

  • Thank you sent to the AC 

Discussion

  • OpenMRS Summit 

  • Call tomorrow with Malawi- post agenda to this

  • When?Malawi Kick off meeting @ Fri Aug 4, 2017 9am - 10am ( US Eastern) 

  • Roles and responsibilities 

  • Agenda

  • Introductions and Kick off( Paul, Christine and  Maganizo). 

  • Malawi committe planning team: How many members are in the planning committe, what are their high level roles and share out contact infromation.(Malawi team). 

  • Schedule the weekly calls. (Malawi team). 

  • Conference dates. (Christine,Jeff , Jan,Terry and Malawi team). 

  • Conference venue: What is needed to start the booking process for this.(Malawi team). 

  • Conference theme(Malawi Team). 

  • Financing: What is needed to set up this?(Jeff, Paul, Terry and Malawi team). 

  • AOB. 

  • past documentation

  • compiled resources into a complete document for future

  • timeline of what needs to be done/when 

  • Malawi blog post (please read and lend thoughts!)

  • PIH role

  • potential for site visits - 2 to 4 hours away

  • Mark to follow up 

  • OMRS17 Dates ? Dec 11-15  ( can start on the 10th) 

  • will discuss dates with Malawi

  • some discussion to push conference into February

  • OpenMRS LT and a potential Bahmni meeting 

  • consistent timing of the meeting-- early December ( try to pick one and stick with it) 

  • How to plan an implementers conference ( can use for regional meetings also) - follow up with Lorinne also 

  • Add a section on "preferred conference dates"

  • BOD Update- meeting last week ( notes still pending) 

  • Bahmni

  • lawyer can review the documents

  • owe the BOD a review of the Bahmni critical path for the next 12 months

  • need governance document for them to review

  • replacement of the BoD member- Paul

  • incubation process- identify people who may be interested in being a BOD member

  • few other people that were identified 

  • share potential people's names with Paul/Jan 

  • conversations with Merrick Shaffer ( USAID); Benetech 

  • COI review for Merrick

  • additional info to the Benetech person

  • hopefully with a 60 day completion for the next person 

  • Infrastructure Needs- Burke/ Darius  

  • update on proposed plan - see notes in the above link for this

  • spend money on doing this 

  • Bahmni Update- Darius 

  • 120K through openMRS to support Bahmni and core development

  • explicit direction from Path/Dial

  • follow up with PATH for more details 

  • should have some funding for Bahmni to route through OpenMRS

  • some funding in September 

  • kick start development from TW to non TW 

  • in kind commitment from partners to accelerate/extend the impact of the development staff

  • consider similar for OpenMRS 

  • OpenMRS Global Good

  • USAID 

  • able to provide a multi-year commitment to core global goods

  • governance

  • complementary about the contribution to the BCG process

  • want to provide some multi-year funding based on what Paul has heard 

  • what it takes to regularly support global goods for a x period of time

  • create a total number that they want to support

  • will 'shake the can' to try to get funding for this

  • Fundraising Update-- Jan ( discuss her experience ) - Jeff

  • Custom facebook fundraising button used on personal page

  • put on facebook, linked to OpenMRS; put up her own button for x amount of time

  • Appears to be a specific duration

  • Results were $225 raised (Jeff is unsure where the funds are going)

  • digital fundraising- almost 3000 

Monthly Items 

  • Fundraising Update

  • Operational Plan Update

  • Budget/Expenses/ first Thursday

  • Partnerships- third Thursday

  • plan meeting for the OMRS conference for the LT  

Quarterly Update (link to the quarterly status spreadsheet?)

  • Infrastructure Update (Quarterly - Jun, Sep, Dec)

  • Ongoing Quarterly metric review of specific areas

Parking Lot Follow Up items

  • Diversity Council-Terry 

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

Notes