I’ve created a doodle poll to get everyone’s input on meeting times for this week. I’ve started with trying to accommodate both US west coast and African time zones. If this doesn’t work, then we can think about other times:
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Thanks, Jan. I think AMIA was just too busy this year, so thanks for taking the bull by the horns. It looks like there’s a groundswell around Fri. Nov. 20 at 9:00am US Eastern time. Shall we go with that?
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Sigh. Another 6am call… OK.
Bill
Sent from tiny keys - please excuse typos, dictation errors, and haste-made waste…
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Definitely. Fri Nov 20 at 6am PT / 9am ET / 4pm CAT it is. Thanks!
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Great! Re conferencing technology, does someone have an uberconference account that they can use to host this meeting?
I have a Webex account that will accommodate everyone, but I’d rather keep using the tool we use. But I logged into uberconference and it wouldn’t give me permissions to do anything significant.
We just go to http://uberconference.com/openmrs and it automatically starts up the call.
Is there some need for admin functions?
I didn’t know I had to sign up for that or something, such as if two people each had the idea to use it for different meetings at the same time.
UberConference also offers free accounts for individuals. The only main difference (as far as I know) is a free/personal account requires a PIN and doesn’t have international and/or toll-free phone numbers.
I left out “if”, as in “I didn’t know *if I had to sign up,”… if it’s okay to use uber conference.com/openmrs, then let’s do that.
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Working group call will take place 12 hours and a few minutes from now (Friday, 6am US PT, 9am US ET, 1400 GMT)
To join the call: https://www.uberconference.com/openmrs Or dial in: 888.510.4073 (no pin needed) Notes: http://notes.openmrs.org/Task2Call-2015-11-20 Working document: https://goo.gl/x3auA6
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did we want to place this on the openMRS calendar? i wasn’t on the leadership call today but i thought that we had decided to make sure that these meetings are posted there also. If that is the case, perhaps someone can post?
We had a solid discussion of some of the major points today – see the notes page (link just above) for a summary, as well as the document (also linked above) in evolution. We will continue to update the document and merge the notes into the document where applicable.
We are going to set up one more live meeting. I have sent out a Doodle poll to those already on this list. Others can participate in the Doodle poll at http://doodle.com/poll/5dnqghhp2b4wa7kf
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looks like the poll doesn’t use time zones, so I answered it as if it was East Coast time. I checked with @janflowers and I think she used Pacific, so one of us will adjust their answers when that is clarified.
Yes, please interpret the poll in US Eastern Time (UTC-5 hours).
I thought I supplied that info on the Doodle site – I will recheck.
You and Jan should especially note that the earliest time was specified so as to avoid any sunrise meetings for you West Coasters 
Annoyingly, you have to actively check a box in doodle to “use time zones”.
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Yeah, I remember clicking that link and setting the dropdown that ensued, but somehow it missed it. And you can’t change the setting once the poll is finalized. So rather than start a new one and generate more confusion, we’ll stick with this, and I will rely on the computer-savvy and global-savvy skills of our group.
Mike and I had a chat after the meeting that I wanted to share the main points of (and maybe he can expound):
Building one application with all the following characteristics is is very hard/expensive:
- lots of features
- solves the midsize clinic/hospital use case
- solves the PEPFAR-funded ARV site use case
- works well out of the box
- backwards compatible
- highly configurable
- extensible by not-very-coordinated devs
- consistent style and look and feel
- dev process is very welcoming
- good place for experimentation (gsoc, etc)
One approach is to commit ourselves to delivering all these characteristics, but not necessarily all together in the same application/distribution.
Specifically, the “Community Distribution” does not have to be the same thing as the “recommended hospital distribution” or the “recommended HIV clinic distribution”.
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That’s a very illuminating way to say it.
It sounds like some of these are issues for the document, and others are issues that could be left undecided within the document for further discussion.
Is the idea that these will be debated in Singapore, or mainly just presented?
Jonathan
Either is possible … this group should decide what it wants out of the Summit and we’ll work to provide the space & time to do so.