2013-06-06 Leadership Call
Jamie Thomas
Owned by Jamie Thomas
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Agenda
- Leads
- Hamish Fraser - Role (15 min)
- Q&A (7 min)
- Paul Biondich (15 min)
- Q&A (7 min)
- Next call Michael & Burke to present.
- Updates (15 min)
- Nepal & Bangladesh
- Financial Support - OMRS13
- IRS Update
Meeting Minute
Minutes
- Leads
- Paul Biondich (15 min)
- IRS Update
- Michael hand delivered responses for the IRS to the lawyer on 6/5 - there may be reusable text for our web presence
- Paul will send out the final to the leadership list
- Non Profit
- Been thinking a lot of strategies for the non profit
- Create templates - consultant, travel
- Working on process for bill paying
- OMRS Conferences
- Would like to see meetings becoming an income generator for the community but not being the goal of the meeting just a side effect - giving us a financial backstop for the next meeting
- Believe comference funds could help support educational and supportive needs of the community
- Sponsorship would come to the inc and then be spent by the inc.
- OMRS13 - potential sponsors & POC's
- Google OSPO: Chris & Paul
- ThoughtWorks: Paul
- Skoll: Allegedly Hamish has a contact here
- Safaricom: Martin Osumba
- Orange: Backup to Safaricom, if necesary
- Google Africa entities: Starting with OSPO first, then Steven
- IDRC (?): Tom
- Strategic Implementations
- Mirebalais
- Nepal & Bangladesh ready to do broad implementation of OMRS working with ThoughtWorks and IRD - including reference application
- Need to create a process in which these implementations can express their needs to the reference application core development team
- Merck has intrest in assisting with implementing OMRS in Asia, Brazil, India
- Need to make sure that partnering orgs that may be interested in large scale implementations follow our principles - will be a need to formalized
- Next call Michael & Burke to present.