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Monthly OpenLMIS Governance Committee Call. This meeting includes members of the governance committee, as well as anyone else interested in participating. 

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  • 7:00 - 8:00 AM PST - Seattle
  • 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST - New York, DC
  • 3:00 PM CET - Geneva, Copenhagen (4PM during daylight saving time of the year)
  • 5:00 PM EAT - Dar (6PM during daylight saving time of the year)

Call Details

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Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/377281719

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Topic

Who

Notes

Chat Captures

Introductions and Call opening (5 min)

  • Notes from January Governance call

January Notes

Carl Leitner 

Welcome

Review agenda and objectives for this call



Opportunity Check-In 

(5 minutes)

Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed) , Ashraf, and maybe others

Discuss recent opportunities:

Swaziland eLMIS- RFP Approved_RFP_eLMIS CMS_eSwatini_2020.pdf

Uzbekistan vLMIS-  https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/100565

  • Annual maintenance fund of 25k was incorporated into the budget for this proposal. This is something we are aiming to formalize for current/future implementations. 
  • What is included in the 25k?

other implementation opportunities/leads to share?


Response/feedback from our Sustainability Webinar

(5-10 minutes)

Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed)

Feedback from our webinar generated some public discourse; good points, mixed tones–feedback/thoughts from this group?

This article on ICTworks was one response; frustration with situation and 'if OpenLMIS can't crack this nut, then none of us can': https://www.ictworks.org/openlmis-open-source-software/#.XkEsWWhKg2w

How can we re-frame this conversation? Any key messaging we should emphasize from our side?

Join the conversation: DIAL OSC's online forum has a lively discussion, we encourage your participation!

https://hub.osc.dial.community/t/digital-square-january-webinar-global-good-sustainability/989

Webinar slides and recording available here


Partnership Working Group:  First meeting recap and TOR

(10 minutes)

Notes from first partnership working group meeting are here (semi private wiki page)

Working Group had our first meeting to clarify our mode of working and finalize our TOR for the coming months; will meet every 2 weeks

-In first meeting decided on recruitment strategy; create and circulate an EOI to make sure we are casting a wide enough net (don't want to limit to just tech/health companies)

-Goal: Make final recommendations to for governance committee vote by Nov 2020

-Shortlisting of partners and interviews/scoring of partners will happen iteratively throughout the year. At a minimum will thoroughly evaluate 3 partners.

Overview of Working Group TOR and key milestones

Next steps for working group:

  • Adapt interview guide and score card to use for assess potential partners (this month), will share these drafts for discussion at next governance meeting
  • contribute/comment on document outlining handover partnership terms/wants/needs; 
  • finalize draft EOI 

Request: comments or feedback on Working Group TOR by Friday Feb 14th (Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed)  circulated over discourse)


Overview of proposed sustainability activities for 2020-21

(10-15 minutes)

Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed)

The basics: A proposal to BMGF submitted this week to fund OpenLMIS activities throughout our next phase while we select a partner, and transition activities. This includes funding for ongoing product/community maintenance as well

Timeline: Proposal was for 24 months but this might be shortened. We proposed an Exploratory Phase (up to 12 months) that ends when a Handover Partner is chosen and all agreements/MOUs are in place to conduct the handover.

In the subsequent Handover Phase (up to 12 months) we anticipate ramping down all donor-funded stewardship and transferring responsibility for it to the Handover Partner. VR role shifts to monitoring and supporting during this phase.

Key results expected:

Roles & Responsibilities:

-OpenLMIS stewards- continue to manage community and product; push forward sustainability initiatives; be the leaders and 'doers' in our sustainability workstreams

1) Partnership Working Group (led by stewards with heavy community participation)- to vet and select partner

2) Value of Data workstream -understand the value of OpenLMIS data, company willingness to pay for it, country willingness to share or sell it

3) Establish Annual Maintenance Fund-coordinate with donors, and current implementations to establish fund; document the sponsorship model;  establish funding mechanism; establish transparent maintenance prioritization (for those paying in)

-External support: Kim and others from Resonance will provide advice and guidance

Questions/Comments/Suggestions:


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Conferences and Meetings

Conferences provide the community the opportunity for OpenLMIS members to speak or represent the OpenLMIS software and community in public forum.



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Upcoming Conferences for 2020 (let's add them here!)

There is interest in a Digital Square maintained Calendar of Events. So we might eventually link with that calendar in the future

  • Question: Will there be another Global Health Supply Chain summit this year? 

  • ICT4D - The Global Digital Development Conference  
    • April 21-23, 2020 Training Day: April 24. Abuja, Nigeria 
    • https://www.ict4dconference.org/
    • **I heard DIAL is doing a sustainability-related event here. Anyone have details?

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.

Country implementation opportunities:

  • This Trello table is being updated on an ongoing basis; to help the core team to track and manage implementation opportunities, but also provides a detailed snapshot of the scope and status of current implementation opportunities for stakeholders.

Community Opportunities:

  • New Trello table! Similar to the above table, this tool is being used by the stewards to track our exploring of new product opportunities and partnerships

Study Tours:

  • Study Tours wiki page tracks applications received, study tours completed, and other key milestones related to OpenLMIS Study Tours



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