April 13, 2021

Introductions and Call opening (5 min)

• Notes from Feb Governance call

March Notes

Welcome

Review agenda for this call;

COVID 19 Edition- Update

- Vitalliance has hired Dean to lead the transition, he’s had a meet and greet with the Stewards, onboarding/KT has started, and we’re working with Vitalliance to develop milestones and effectively support the transition. 

Navigating change: 

• a 1-slide overview of resources, FAQs, how to kickstart two-way dialogue, etc.

Next steps: Rebecca will be reaching out to schedule conversations with implementing partners.

OpenLMIS Community engagement and this forum will be changing starting this summer

Strategic Oversight Committee and the Key User Group are new forums for engagement that Vitalliance will use to engage on governance and product issues. Both must be formed by June 4, 2021

This is what is in the agreement:

• Strategic Oversight Committee includes Vitalliance, VillageReach, BMGF and USAID, and only includes others if they “contribute to this transition”.
• Key User Group includes members of the current GC including JSI, CHAI, and PSM.

Discussion: What’s most important to you? ask GC voting members and regular attendees to speak up about what areas they want to be informed about, consulted, or have any power/vote/authority over, to inform how these new groups are managed

Action item for us: figure out which individuals will sit on each

Review/launch our new Contribution Guidelines and describe to GC what it means for partners going forward

updated the IP Summary

(topic to save for future meeting)

Comparing OpenLMIS and DHIS2 capabilities

How do we advise countries on what each system can do for them for COVID?

DHIS2 has better data collection and vaccine tracking; they have an EIR-like data capture that tracks patients and their doses

larger question: why are we still being reactive, we knew this vaccine would be coming and haven't been able to prepare. So DHIS2 has stepped in to fill the hole

Conferences and Meetings

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

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.

• 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 (this activity is no longer active due to COVID-19)