July 17, 2018

Introductions and call opening

• Introductions
• Notes from June Governance call
  • June 19, 2018

Review of SoftWorks vote 

https://goo.gl/forms/6RJUKE92l6oetWUL2

Carl Leitner

Parambir S Gill (Unlicensed) (if present)

• Kyle Duarte will be leaving GHSC and will no longer be the Trusted Partner representative on the OpenLMIS Governance Committee. 
• Parambir S Gill (Unlicensed) will now act as the representative for Chemonics / GHSC-PSM 

Core Team Funding Runway

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bQ6_KOUFu7cNdKoiDaG33UVBK_oFNEROwStIE6YNn5U/edit?usp=sharing

Questions: 

1. Any feedback for VillageReach on our role as stewards?
2. Further discussion about Notice C and DIAL under opportunities below...

Brandon Bowersox-Johnson

Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated)

Conferences

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

Opportunities Roundtable

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.

Community funding opportunities:

• Notice C: Plan is to seek funding to maintain the codebase and continue to do quarterly releases with bug fixes and new features requested by the community.
  • Point of contact for submission: Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated)
• DIAL Strategic Grants: Plan is to seek funding to continue working on features identified in the Gap Project. We will pitch that work to fall under the themes of "Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration" and "Managing Upstream Dependencies and Downstream Forks".
  • Point of contact for submission: Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated)
• Islamic Development Bank: Is anyone planning to submit a proposal?

Challenge: Figuring out how to structure these that we could be effective in 2019 with only one or only partial of both.

Country Implementation Opportunities Updates:

• Angola (OpenLMIS point of contact: )
• Mozambique (OpenLMIS point of contact: Dércio Duvane)
• Tanzania (OpenLMIS point of contact: Alfred Mchau)
• Zambia (OpenLMIS point of contact: ?)
• Guinea (??

• Updates from the Community to share?
  • Ona
  • JSI
  • CHAI

• 3.4 release is planned for the end of July. Will include the first set of features funded by the Gap Project and key bug fixes for Malawi.

Team

• We are excited to welcome Wesley Brown to the OpenLMIS core team. He will be replacing Brandon's role in leading the Technical Community management efforts. He brings 20 years of software development experience, including working with Banda Health. His experience with Banda Health includes working with OpenMRS and open source software in the OpenHIE ecosystem.

Community Meeting

• Where: Planning to have it in Malawi 
• When: late September
• Who: OpenLMIS community members (discussion around inviting prospective users)
• Major Theme: Bring together OpenLMIS users or those who work directly with end-users from the different OpenLMIS implementations. Dialogue about how OpenLMIS can change to better support users and the challenges they face, such as reducing the data burden and giving users the right information at the right times. Participate in human-centered design activities and usability testing of new OpenLMIS v3 features. The outcome of this community meeting will be revisions to the product design and roadmap to better meet the real-world needs of end users.
• Support Needed: the community is discussing how to financially support members in participating. More information soon.