Date

12 May 2011

How To Join

Contact @Dawn Seymour for more information on how to join the call.

In Attendance

• Paul Biondich

• Hamish Fraser

• Darius Jazayeri

• Burke Mamlin

• Chris Seebregts

• Dawn Smith

Agenda

Meeting Minutes

• Rwanda ehealth Architecture

  • Paul: HI-PPP is emerging an implementation plan to improve maternal health outcomes

  • Chris: Recommendations were made to the ministry around the adoption of certain standards

    • We need to work through the use cases and implementation science to add value to the outcomes of maternal and child health

  • Hamish: Difficulty is getting information on where the architecture is going and to get clarity

• Re-Organizing Calls Update

  • Darius: Still need feedback from Andy and Chris S. on input for re-organizing OpenMRS calls

  • Summary:

    • Leadership: includes project management

      • 1.5 hrs/wk total: 1hr weekly leadership call then 30min before or after for project management

    • Community: overlap with implementers, users, developers, external devs

      • 1hr/wk total: can include features/feature requirements, implementers showcase, consumers of OpenMRS can talk about plans, WIP/demos, GSoC (1 student per call to do a showcase)

    • Developers: day-to-day and core devs

      • 3-4hrs/wk total: can include design/how to implement design, development, code review, GSoC

  • Paul: Important to have a shared responsibility on the calls and decision. Encourage leadership from others

  • Chris S.: Participative Management Style - using peer review to talk about performance on an individual basis but also as an organization

  • Hamish: It would be good to have a process around this. It can be difficult to elicit feedback, but we need to find a way to engage individuals other than leadership to grow the organization

  • Discussion Point: How can we open up design call discussions to the community, but still have a high-level discussion for core devs

    • Burke: How do we make the meeting more transparent? Documentation and taking that to the community

    • Darius: We need to find a call to invite Mike and Jeremy

    • Chris S.: Appoint one person of contact in Jembi to join the design call as well

• NGO Updates

• Conference Updates