# OpenMRS Leadership Team Call 2016-08-25

**URL:** <https://talk.openmrs.org/t/openmrs-leadership-team-call-2016-08-25/7741>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** meetings, strategic-obj-6, leadership-mtg\
**Created:** [August 25, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/openmrs-leadership-team-call-2016-08-25/7741 "2016-08-25T14:43:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![jthomas](https://talk.openmrs.org/user_avatar/talk.openmrs.org/jthomas/32/21_2.png) [@jthomas](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/jthomas)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/openmrs-leadership-team-call-2016-08-25/7741/1 "2016-08-25T14:43:01Z")

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Hi All,

We have a leadership call scheduled for this Thursday, August 25 @ 4pm UTC (12pm ET). If you normally attend but can not 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.

**Agenda**

Discussion

- Role of Private Leadership
- Review Governance P&P
- BOD Nomination Process
- OpenMRS Meeting Update (after AMIA)
- Town Hall Topics/Agenda
- [Strategic Goal #6](https://goo.gl/JW79vc) - @terry

Informational

- Fundraising - @michaeljayhealy1
- Uganda Meeting / Summit - @suranga / @christine
- Advisory Council Topics
- [OpenMRS Endorsement of Digital Principles](http://digitalprinciples.org)
- [Review for Sept 1st discussion on Strategic Goal #5](https://goo.gl/ezW39D)

**Parking Lot Items**

- Recurring current finances
- Recurring fundraising
- Recurring governance structure
- Org Chart Review - [https://goo.gl/dzKqsY](https://goo.gl/dzKqsY)
- Naming for the reference application (due to proposed changes)
- Review Communications Tools
- Review mission, vision and values - [http://openmrs.org/about/mission](http://openmrs.org/about/mission)
- OSCON 2017 Brainstorming (Dec 2015 Brainstorm for May 8-11, 2017)
- Partnerships
- Infrastructure Update (Quarterly - Jun, Sep, Dec) (Sept 8)
- Parternships
- Fiscal Health (501c3, budget) (Sept 1)
- Strategic Goal Updates (every six weeks) (#5 - Sept 1, #1- Sept 8)
- Review suggested community changes
- Roles of the Community Manager
- Web site and having names of people that work with us highlighted - [http://openmrs.org/about/support](http://openmrs.org/about/support)
- Diversity Council
- Gaps in process documentation

Notes: [https://notes.openmrs.org/2016-08-25-Leadership-Team-Call](https://notes.openmrs.org/2016-08-25-Leadership-Team-Call)

If members from the community would like to see a specific agenda item added to the topic queue or would like to join an upcoming leadership call please reach out to @jthomas

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**Author:** ![Chris\_Seebregts](https://talk.openmrs.org/letter_avatar/chris_seebregts/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Chris\_Seebregts](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/Chris_Seebregts)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 7:28am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/openmrs-leadership-team-call-2016-08-25/7741/2 "2016-08-26T07:28:15Z")

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Dear All Apologies for missing the OpenMRS Leadership call yesterday. I had a conflict with my son’s birthday dinner. I sent apologies beforehand from my OpenMRS email account but now see that the message was rejected by the mail server for some reason. Best Regards Chris

_Christopher Seebregts, PhD_ \*Chief Executive Officer | Jembi Health Systems NPC | Cape Town | \*

_SOUTH AFRICAHon Assoc Prof | School of Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science | University of KwaZulu-NatalTel: +27 (0)21 701 0939 (office); chrisseebregts (skype); +ChrisSeebregts [http://google.com/+ChrisSeebregts](http://google.com/+ChrisSeebregts) (google)Executive Assistant: Lindie Spies ([lindie@jembi.org](mailto:lindie@jembi.org) [lindie@jembi.org](mailto:lindie@jembi.org))_

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**Author:** ![terry](https://talk.openmrs.org/user_avatar/talk.openmrs.org/terry/32/1998_2.png) [@terry](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/terry)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 3:59am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/openmrs-leadership-team-call-2016-08-25/7741/3 "2016-08-26T03:59:35Z")

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thanks Chris. Notes are fairly comprehensive. Hope that the birthday was awesome!
