I’d like to use our Office Hours this week to go back and look at the community process for OpenMRS 3.0 that we began talking about during last Thursday’s Strategy discussion.
Specifically, I’d like to talk about ways that we can use Talk, real-time chat (Telegram or Slack?), and regularly scheduled meetings (PM meetings, design forums, advisory council meetings, strategy discussions) in March to get input from different community perspectives, further define our ideas, and move different pieces forward.
I’ll be hanging around our uberconference room at 4pm Nairobi, 1pm UTC, 8am EST, 5am Seattle on Wednesday, 27 February. Hope to see you there and bring your friends!
@cintiadr Part of the question is how and when should we use Telegram? @ruhanga suggested that we can use Telegram to send notifications about conversations about that are happening on Talk or Design Forums to those implementers/developers on Telegram. @cliff thought that we should also use our social media (Twitter, Facebook) to let others know what is happening.
About the Design Forums, @ruhanga said that if we have frequent discussions around design decisions, then it is important to include implementing countries. This is where we can use Design Forums, though this brought up the observation that sometimes, only a couple of people attend. So how do we include more people? The recent Scrum of scrums had representatives from implementations worldwide. This was announced on the GHDN listserv, so can we use listservs like that to roll out communications?
I’m still tidying up my notes, so please feel free to keep this conversation going and I’ll add as we go.
I don’t mind about telegram communication, I like the idea a lot in fact.
It’s just that we might need to migrate to a different chat room there, or even a different messenger tool due to the admin/owner limitation by the tool. So before migrating anything there (something already not there), I’d recommend to wait a tad while we somehow sort out access.