2019 Strategy and Operations Pre-Meeting

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