OpenMRS Leadership Call 2017-07-20

Dear Community,

The weekly leadership meetings are attended by members in the OpenMRS community that serve in a leadership capacity and dedicate a significant amount of time in service of other members in the OpenMRS community. For a long time these meetings have occurred on a weekly basis and, for the most part, its the same people attending each week. Sometimes it feels like we’re talking to ourselves and we really wish community leaders would join these weekly calls to present and discuss ideas and “step up to the plate” to lead a new project. I see so many leaders in this community doing amazing work, working incredibly hard, and making sure that things are done well.

Please join this call. At the 2016 Implementers’ Conference we spoke face-to-face and many of you expressed ideas and passion for new projects and solutions… this is your time to present and discuss those ideas in a forum that can lead to acquiring funding to make your dream a reality.

We have a leadership call scheduled for this Thursday, 20 July @ 4pm UTC (12pm ET). If you are a community leader, you are encouraged to attend and share in the discussion! If you normally attend but are unable to this week please let me know. Also if there are any additional topics or updates you would like to see on this agenda or a future agenda please let me know!

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Agenda

Informational

  • Advisory Committee Meeting- July 19

  • Town Hall Meeting - July 26

  • notes: https://notes.openmrs.org/p/06-28-2017_OpenMRS_Town_Hall_Second_Quarter

  • faciltator–Jeff

  • public post about the idea

  • questions and answers/ publicize more prior to the date of the meeting

  • Quarterly report completed

  • OpenMRS BOD Call** Update- Jan/Paul**

  • Application to North Star Alliance Partnership

  • Reached out on facebook and sent ‘application’

Discussion

  • Bahmni Update

  • **Update on Summit - OMRS17 - Christine ( Jan, Jeff, Christine) **

  • scheduled call with Malawi team and discuss commitment and expectations July 13

  • https://notes.openmrs.org/p/2017-07-13-omrs17-malawi-meeting

  • **Potential for ‘internships’- Jeff/Terry **

  • is there a need/a way to do this?

  • Some people request opportunities for non-dev roles; how would we mobilize them?

  • Suggestion to avoid specifically creating program for Impelmenters

  • Expand conception further to include more non-devs

  • BA

  • Documentation

  • etc.

  • Things to think about

  • Implementers typically have their own funding

  • OpenMRS doesn’t implement the software

  • wording; might not be an ‘internship’ but more of an 'implementer program’

  • fellowship program

  • Previous GSOC student moves onto this type of project

  • Difficulty bringing in non-devs to a dev centered community

  • Continued “Leadership Team” discussion

  • Perception of exclusive ‘team’ being seperate from the community as a whole

  • **Diversity Council-Terry **

  • identify and invite women from posts to intro to talk category- are people ok with that?

  • **Fiscals-- ****- ? update? **

Weekly

  • Report on Fundraising Efforts @Andy

  • Operational Plan Update

Monthly Items

  • Budget/Expenses/ first Thursday

  • Partnerships- third Thursday

**Quarterly Update **(link to the quarterly status spreadsheet?)

  • Infrastructure Update (Quarterly - Jun, Sep, Dec)

  • Diversity Council

  • Ongoing Quarterly metric review of specific areas

  • who is contributing code

  • volunteer contributions

  • go through some of the numbers–and gather them before the TH and review them

Parking Lot Follow Up items

Notes: https://notes.openmrs.org/2017-07-20-Leadership-Team-Call