As a way of providing additional support to contributors to OpenMRS platform, reference application and implementations all over the world, I would like to suggest the concept of office hours, where you can actually speak to a human
This does not remove the existing channels like Talk (here), IRC, Telegram, JIRA, regular Project Management meetings, design calls, university calls etc but compliments them in provides an opportunity to speak to someone, brainstorming your problem or idea or thinking out aloud. I know I find that very useful
Taking into account other meetings and timezone differences, I would like to suggest the following:
Love this idea! +1. Recently folks requested we list out a few timezones with a scheduled meeting.
This open forum will be at 8am Seattle, 11am Boston, 16:00 Lagos, 17:00 Berlin, 18:00 Kampala, 19:00 Nairobi, 20:30pm IST, 11pm Manila. See more timezones here.
Oops sorry for my timezone mishap, I meant start at 12:00GMT which is 15:00 Kampala/Nairobi, 5:00 Seattle, 8:00 Boston, 13:00 Lagos, 14:00 Berlin, 17:30 IST, 8pm Manila
The idea is to help those in the Africa/Asia timezones where the implementations are happening
This being new, sending us a minimum of two reminders, may increase attendance. One reminder could be a day before, and another just a couple of minutes before starting. The former could be at exactly the same time as the meeting to take place the following day.
@ssmusoke@burke Can we post the recorded office hours each week to Talk for those that didn’t get to attend? It would be great to hear questions that people are asking and to better understand what topics people are coming to the call to discuss. That would help us determine which topic areas of our community may need additional building out for folks to have resources, etc.
@dkayiwa Thanks for bringing this up - fell off my radar, @jthomas please can you help me schedule this on the OpenMRS calendar, so that no body forgets - my memory is not as good as it used to be
