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Introductions and Call opening (5 min)

• Notes from June Governance call

Welcome

Review agenda for this call

Pranil: We held the first OpenLMIS Community Forum in June. We had strong attendance with ~25 people. We want more engagement from participants at the next meeting. 

Action Item:

Pranil Singh and Brandon Bowersox-Johnson to meet with USAID on Enterprise Support (including Lindabeth, Sharif and Kelly Badiane to bring folks up to speed and get involved).

Agreement was awarded

What this means

Undergoing mock exercise to test UNDP processes for future opportunities

Opportunities documentation

Definitions to use shared terminology:

• Implementation opportunity: an opportunity for an implementation or deployment of the OpenLMIS software.  Usually this is done at a national or sub-national level within a ministry of health. This can also include feature work which would be done within the implementation and contributed back to the global codebase.
• Community opportunity: a funding opportunity to support an organization or individual to work directly on the global codebase and/or administrate the community processes. This may include funding specific features on the community roadmap.

The Governance Committee voting circulated by email and Google Forms has passed. We got 7 votes, all voting to approve the IP Summary and Recommendations: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18i0-Ywc9dn-pR84AolmLz2lFVnLi9XkgWRLjD26mUF0/edit?usp=sharing

One person provided feedback on the Contribution Guide: https://github.com/OpenLMIS/openlmis-ref-distro/blob/ip-update-proposal/docs/source/contribute/contributionGuide.md#licensing and Josh will incorporate that feedback to clarify the documentation.

Carl, Kelly and Jakub suggested moving these GC meetings to less frequently for now but still using this as a forum to keep people in touch.

Action Item:

•  Pranil will also share this with Dean and provide feedback

Wes Brown will join Vitalliance and continue leading OpenLMIS software development there. Huge congratulations to Wes on this transition!

David Crewe-Brown will join as a General Manager at Vitalliance starting August 1. He has a wealth of experience in the health supply chain space, coming from his role with GHSC TA project in South Africa. 

Also, there is recent news that Imperial Logistics may be part of a big acquisition. We expect there will be more news soon.

Carl: I had a conversation with Grand Challenges Canada and Cross-Border Impact Ventures (they invest in firms working in LMIC). They are looking at cross-country business models and transitions like this one.