2017-05-04 Leadership Team Call
Tanya Khokhar
Jeff Neiman
Owned by Tanya Khokhar
How to Join
Contact Jamie Thomas for more information on how to join the call.
Agenda
May 4, 2017
Attendees:
Jan
Hamish
Burke
Christine
Darius
Jeff
Terry
Informational
- Fast Forward Accellerator Program- Jan/Jeff
- Requires a strict definition of a 'founder' to be present at each meeting in san francisco
- Volunteer of the Month- Cintia for last month ; will have this in process for next month
- Tech Update- burke
- updates ongoing
Discussion
- OpenMRS as a global good- due May 5 -
- budget swag from 2017: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mnLuPmRW04erMdzQhLGJqM5DMeyVE4Tw-kudWLQRx8o/edit#- -put the estimate that you need here
- ci=onsider including 1,2, 6 and distribution providers
- Directions: use the template to provide a high level view of the budget needs.
- High level budget gap analysis
- Current total annual budget for software development (USD)% of current budget spent on core software development and support (vs. implementation-specific work)
- Current annual spend on core software development (calculated)
- Annual funding needed to fully support core software development for long-term growth (USD)
- Bahmni and OpenMRS - @Darius
- Advisory Council Update - Bahmni coalition presented asking for advice on OpenMRS participation- we didnt get specific feedback on how to participate
- focus was on should we participate during the conversation
- info about the BoD and the role wiht Bahmni
- we will need to figure out how we are participating and in what manner
- we have to notify the BoD - can let the BoD know that we are considering this option and sharing it with the BoD and getting feedback to that option
- TIming
- Darius posts to Talk ( Monday/Tuesday)
- we send information to the BoD about what we are discussing with the community
- gather feedback from the community
- represent to the LT call
- gather information from the LT call and develop/endorse a recommendation
- share that recommendation with the BoD and ask for their comments
- Making money for OpenMRS
- can we be our own organization with offerings and add indirects to our billing
- what are ways for us to develop a business model to move our work along
- is there a way to do evaluations/ assessments/ fill some gaps with our team that will allow us to sustain our organizations
- we can 'sell' ourselves or collbaorate with others
- core support offerings - dev shop, whether hired directly or within partner orgs
- what about filling the role that TW has been doing now that TW is scaling back
- can we talk to TW about picking up those implementation dev needs for those that they are not going to be supporting?
- implementer training? (not actual implementation)
- not being prime on implementation would be a goal -
- training local service providers to support an implementation would be in our purview
- thought leadership - how could we do this w/o competing against our dayjobs
- discussion about multiple needs
- e.g. appointment scheduling in the product
- need to figure out how to do this
- next steps- develop some business models
- few different models to explore what we could offer
- principle of agreeing to do things that do not hurt any other member of our community
- Budget/Expenses- pending from Theresa P
- Partnerships @Jan
- OSL Support (deferred)
- BoD Membership Update- Paul - no update today
Recurrent Topics
- Weekly
- Report on Fundraising Efforts - Jeff
- OMRS17 Locations
- Operational Plan Update
- Monthly Items
- Budget/Expenses/ first Thursday
- Partnerships - third Thursday
- Quarterly Update
- Infrastructure Update (Quarterly - Jun, Sep, Dec)
- Diversity Council
- Ongoing Quarterly metric review of specific areas
- who is contributing code
- volunteer contributions