2019 Strategy and Operations Pre-Meeting

Note: This is a draft schedule. For any of the topics, please add any sub-topics and/or questions to the table below.

Time

Topic

Discussion Questions

Tuesday, December 3, 2019: Strategy and Operations 

Location: Conference Room #3, https://uberconference.com/openmrs

Notes: https://notes.openmrs.org/2019-12-03-Strategy-and-Operations-Call

9:00-9:15

Overview Session/Getting Started

 

 

 

 

9:15-9:45

Where are we now?

  • What were our key accomplishments in 2019?

  • What challenges did we encounter?

  • What are our current and anticipated awards?

  • What is the current status of our investment?

  • What does our spending look like? 

 

  • Community Status

 

  • Progress + Highlights

 

  • Challenges

 

  • Fiscal Status

 

Awards

 

Investments 

 

  • Spending Trends 

 

 

 

9:45-10:15

Current Trends 

  • What changes are we seeing in the ecosystem?

  • What are the implications of these changes for implementations? For the community?

  • What challenges do we anticipate?

 

  • Ecosystem

 

  • Funding + Sustainability

 

  • Implications 

 

 

 

10:30-11:45

Priorities for 2020

  • What priorities do countries + implementations have for the coming year?

  • Do our objectives reflect these priorities? Do we need to adjust our objectives for the upcoming year?

  • What resources and assets exist that can be used to help us achieve our objectives?

  • Where can our combined resources and assets be used best?

 

  • Technology

 

  • Capacity

 

  • Community

 

  • Partnerships

11:45 - 12:00

Review: Key Points and Actions

What comes next?

 

 

Wednesday, December 4, 2019: Birds of a Feather

Notes: https://notes.openmrs.org/2019-12-04-Strategy-and-Operations-Call

6:00pm

OpenMRS Community at Scale

  • What values and practices have served us well as a community? 

  • As we scale, how can we organize ourselves to maximize our combined resources and assets?

  • What does it mean to be accountable? How do we hold people accountable?

 

  • Mission, vision, values

 

  • Committees, Teams, and Squads

 

  • Ownership

 

  • Accountability

 

 

 

7:00pm

Contributing Organizations

 

 

  • Strategies for contributing back

 

 

  • Measuring + recognizing organizations’ contributions