# Strategic Objective 3: Distributions
**URL:** https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605
**Category:** Leadership
**Tags:** strategic-obj-3, distributions
**Created:** [November 3, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605 "2015-11-03T21:41:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@janflowers](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/janflowers)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605/1 "2015-11-03T21:41:58Z")
This topic will be used to work through the planning of the goals and tasks (including measures) for OpenMRS Community Objective #3: **Actively encourage and support the development of additional OpenMRS Distributions, deriving and disseminating best practices and technologies from them**.
The following leaders have agreed to work actively on this to prepare for presentation at the World Summit in December:@janflowers, @darius, @burke, @akanter, @pascal
All community members are invited to provide input and feedback, and if you’d like to actively participate in editing the objectives goals and tasks, contact @janflowers to be added to the document for editing.
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WJC5Yd9zKE13yJNyOs45kxnZEo-utOTuBgbT6QzohPk/pub](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WJC5Yd9zKE13yJNyOs45kxnZEo-utOTuBgbT6QzohPk/pub)
( Link to doc: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WJC5Yd9zKE13yJNyOs45kxnZEo-utOTuBgbT6QzohPk/edit](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WJC5Yd9zKE13yJNyOs45kxnZEo-utOTuBgbT6QzohPk/edit) )
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### Author:  [@darius](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/darius)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2015, 10:17pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605/2 "2015-11-03T22:17:41Z")
We will have our initial planning meeting tomorrow, Wednesday, Nov 4. List your availability here if you want to join: [http://doodle.com/poll/22tktdnv462ck7dq](http://doodle.com/poll/22tktdnv462ck7dq)
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### Author:  [@janflowers](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/janflowers)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2015, 4:36am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605/3 "2015-11-04T04:36:50Z")
Looks like 4pm works best for everyone to join, unless we hear from @burke otherwise. Shall we join at [www.uberconference.com/openmrs](http://www.uberconference.com/openmrs) ?
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### Author:  [@maurya](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/maurya)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2015, 2:57pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605/4 "2015-11-04T14:57:12Z")
Hey,
I want to be a part of this meeting and have filled out the doodle poll.
I am the last one in the poll and looking at the list 7PM EST seems to be working for everyone.
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### Author:  [@burke](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/burke)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605/5 "2015-11-04T16:28:51Z")
I’d like to join as well, but today is crammed with too many things, including dinner plans. If you end up having the call at 7PM EST and I can get our dinner planed moved up, I will try to join before the call ends (but I’m a firm “maybe” at best).
FYI – from further discussions at the end of camp, I was told that, for the Platform objective, we should make two copies of the plan for the upcoming year: (1) a with-the-resource-we-have-now plan and a (2) assuming-we-get-the-resources-we-need plan. It might be worth considering the same here – i.e., if we think that we could do more with specific dedicated resources, then lay out a strategy for the year without those resources followed by a strategy for the year if we could get specific resources (and what those additional needed resources would be).
Other than that, one concern I’d have for our Distribution strategy would be how we would be to consider how we would handle dozens of distributions – i.e., where do people go with questions if they’re running a different distribution than others in the community, where do expectations/responsibilities of the distributor vs. community start & end, how does the community address upgrades (if at all), etc.
As for item #3 (“a best practice library”), I would favor an approach that was community sustainable. If we dream up an approach to sharing best practices that requires continued central maintenance, it would be more likely to fail. For example, making it clear & easy to “vote up” or centrally share links to real-world examples of best practices and anticipating some way of having those decay or even drop off over time if not updated would be better IMHO than creating some central repository we expect someone in the community to keep clean & updated.
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### Author:  [@darius](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/darius)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605/6 "2015-11-04T18:27:57Z")
We will meet today on [http://www.uberconference.com/openmrs](http://www.uberconference.com/openmrs) at 4pm Seattle = 7pm Indianapolis
Other time zones here: [http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Objective+%233%3A+Distributions+Goals+and+Tasks+Planning&iso=20151104T16&p1=234&ah=1](http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Objective+%233%3A+Distributions+Goals+and+Tasks+Planning&iso=20151104T16&p1=234&ah=1)
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### Author:  [@darius](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/darius)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605/7 "2015-11-05T00:01:43Z")
The call is starting now at [https://www.uberconference.com/openmrs](https://www.uberconference.com/openmrs)
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### Author:  [@darius](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/darius)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605/8 "2015-11-05T20:36:07Z")
We had a successful call with @janflowers, @maurya, and @darius. You can find the notes in the google document [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WJC5Yd9zKE13yJNyOs45kxnZEo-utOTuBgbT6QzohPk](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WJC5Yd9zKE13yJNyOs45kxnZEo-utOTuBgbT6QzohPk).
Mainly, we took a _top-down_ view of trying to generate top-level goals based on Objective #3, to complement the bottom-up approach we got from the sticky note exercise at the camp. Jan will be combining these into a merged list of top-level goals.
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Going forwards we will have twice-a-week ongoing calls.
The default option is Mondays and Thursdays (since Maurya can’t do Fridays). Alternately we could do Tuesdays and Friday mornings (Seattle time), if multiple people prefer it.
Please speak up if you have an opinion (especially if you want to participate and need the Tues+Fri option). Otherwise I will send out a doodle poll towards the end of today, for a Monday time.
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### Author:  [@darius](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/darius)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2015, 3:05am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605/9 "2015-11-07T03:05:17Z")
Apologies for being late with the doodle poll for a Monday time.
Here’s a poll for both Monday and Thursday (though I will miss Thursday, since I’ll be at the BAA meeting).
[http://doodle.com/poll/ft9s4dwgd88guvu2](http://doodle.com/poll/ft9s4dwgd88guvu2)
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### Author:  [@darius](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/darius)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605/10 "2015-11-09T18:14:38Z")
Today’s call will be at 4pm PST = 7pm EST. See you at [http://uberconference.com/openmrs](http://uberconference.com/openmrs)
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### Author:  [@michael](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/michael)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2015, 9:50pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605/11 "2015-11-11T21:50:09Z")
Hi folks! We now have a place to propose sessions for OMRS15 in Singapore, and would like each strategic objective group to present each objective in a short plenary session. Please take a moment to add a session idea for this strategic objective here (using the other sessions as a guide):
[https://talk.openmrs.org/c/community/omrs15-ideas](https://talk.openmrs.org/c/community/omrs15-ideas)
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@amiencha](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/amiencha)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605/12 "2015-11-12T15:03:17Z")
Hello Darius,
I will love to contribute to this objective.
Miencha
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### Author:  [@pascal](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/pascal)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 7:17pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605/13 "2015-11-12T19:17:01Z")
> [@michael](#):
>
> Hi folks! We now have a place to propose sessions for OMRS15 in Singapore, and would like each strategic objective group to present each objective in a short plenary session. Please take a moment to add a session idea for this strategic objective here (using the other sessions as a guide):
Sure @michael, will do.
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### Author:  [@maurya](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/maurya)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2015, 5:07am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605/14 "2015-11-14T05:07:48Z")
I think this group can also discuss about how the implementers/distributions can give their input into what gets into a release. Maybe the voting system can be used initially but something more can be done and this group will be the best group to discuss that in my opinion as @terry mentioned in this post:
> [@Release Process Standardization Ideas](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/release-process-standardization-ideas/3710/3):
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> thanks for the work on this. i have a few comments. i like having a stated release timeline that is ‘generic’ to some extent–and has specific timelines stated. I don’t know enough about our development/ testing to comment on whether these are reasonable, but it seems like they are. As far as the selection of the release manager–the sooner that person is involved, the better. Perhaps we could encourage the current release manager to identify the next one, and have them work together ? that way,…
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### Author:  [@darius](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/darius)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605/15 "2015-11-19T20:58:37Z")
> [@pascal](#):
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> Sure @michael, will do.
@pascal, did you do this?
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### Author:  [@darius](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/darius)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605/16 "2015-11-19T21:08:31Z")
@akanter’s comments on today’s leadership call make me think we should do a more thorough update.
**Next steps if you want to engage**
Our next call will be Monday or Tuesday, and the poll is here: [http://doodle.com/poll/hp8tvqivp5uqar39](http://doodle.com/poll/hp8tvqivp5uqar39)
Before that call, @janflowers will consolidate everything we’ve done so far into a more consistent structure.
**Summary of where we are at so far**
_Objective #3: Actively encourage and support the development of OpenMRS Distributions, deriving and disseminating best practices and technologies from them_
Top-level goals:
The OpenMRS Community will:
1. …support a process to improve access to and usage of downstream OpenMRS distributions by community members and other organizations.
2. …provide a distribution evaluation system for community members to measure quality and appropriateness for use in their context.
3. …incorporate technologies and approaches from distributions into the Platform and Reference Application, and share lessons learned and best practices.
4. …help Distributions produce good products by guiding them to engage with community processes, and leverage community knowledge.
There is more detail, including tasks and measures, in this document: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WJC5Yd9zKE13yJNyOs45kxnZEo-utOTuBgbT6QzohPk3](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WJC5Yd9zKE13yJNyOs45kxnZEo-utOTuBgbT6QzohPk3)
I’m going to wait until Jan has restructured this into a consistent framework before sharing it here on Talk.
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### Author:  [@janflowers](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/janflowers)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2015, 11:00pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605/17 "2015-11-19T23:00:59Z")
Hi @amiencha - You are welcome and encouraged to join us! Darius is setting up a doodle poll to set the time for our next call. It will most likely be Monday the 23rd or Tuesday the 24th. Keep watch here and join us at [www.uberconference.com/openmrs](http://www.uberconference.com/openmrs) at that time.
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### Author:  [@pascal](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/pascal)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 6:41am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605/18 "2015-11-20T06:41:17Z")
> [@darius](#):
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> @pascal, did you do this?
Yup, here:
> [@Presentation of Objective 3: Distributions](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/presentation-of-objective-3-distributions/3708):
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> Session Title: Strategic Objective 3: Distributions Session Type: Breakout Talk (50-minute session including a presentation with Q&A) Description: Presentation and discussion about the Strategic Objective #3: Distributions - Actively encourage and support the development of OpenMRS Distributions, deriving and disseminating best practices and technologies from them. Please refer to this topic for further details: [https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605) Suggested By…
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### Author:  [@janflowers](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/janflowers)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605/19 "2015-11-23T17:38:46Z")
Posted workplan and progress here on page that @jthomas and @terry created : [https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/RES/OpenMRS+Community+Objectives](https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/RES/OpenMRS+Community+Objectives)
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### Author:  [@pascal](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/pascal)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2015, 6:30am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605/20 "2015-11-24T06:30:33Z")
> [@janflowers](#):
>
> Posted workplan and progress here on page that @jthomas and @terry created : [https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/RES/OpenMRS+Community+Objectives](https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/RES/OpenMRS+Community+Objectives)
Thanks @janflowers, that looks great!
[Next page](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/strategic-objective-3-distributions/3605.md?page=2)