2015-08-18 Monthly OpenLMIS Community Call Meeting Agenda / Meeting Notes

• Objective for these calls
  • Community get-together and input, separate from individual project workstreams

• OpenLMIS Grant
• Hiring OpenLMIS Community Manager
• New Projects/Opportunities/Deployments?
  • CHAI - Mozambique Tablet - Collaboration on stock management backend and APIs. Opportunity for technical collaboration and merges between TZ and Mozambique code.
  • VIMS - Tanzania. v4.
  • eLMIS - Zambia. v3.
  • eLMIS - Cote D'Ivore (pilot). Translated into french. Unique data collection requirements.
  • OpenLMIS Informed Push Release
  • PATH - Bar code library. Integration with OpenLMIS core product ongoing.
  • Opportunity: Malawi
  • Opportunity: Pakistan humanitarian relief "VAN" system
    
    

• See meeting planning page 
• Duration: Planning for 3 days but may extend based on agenda
• Structure of the Meeting:
  • • Based on how many attendees are planned from each org, it may or may not make sense to have a separate technical/governance track. Based on the available attendee list and prioritized agenda, group will decide a) will the agenda include technical topics, or is this just a community governance meeting? (group is leaning toward having technical topics included) b) will there be technical/governance break-outs, or will all sessions be in parallel
    • Post-meeting, Karl emailed me to say that tech reps from ThoughtWorks will not be able to make the September meeting

• Agenda preparation. Team to work together using the following process to plan for the meeting:
  • collect bucket of potential agenda items, using starter list as a baseline
  • Individual input on:
    • prioritizing potential agenda items
    • should this item be on plenary or governance/technical track
    • are you willing to lead a session on this topic
  • VR to create a draft agenda and circulate for review and comments
  • Draft blurb for each session and identify leader
    
    
• Meeting dates and duration to be finalized by September 4th
  
  

Sarah/

Melissa

• OpenLMIS Community Announcement?

• • VR would like to send out a communique on what is happening in the OpenLMIS Community and how to get involved
  • Ideas on format, what content would be useful to this group?
    • Blog, website, social media, side session at conferences (multiple formats)
    • Have recorded audio and video, powerpoint of community meetings available on wiki/web -> this becomes the communication materials
    • Leverage open source for global health communities, cross-linking
    • Updated overview documented and functionality list would be useful – Update OpenLMIS Feature Guide + Roadmap
• Key Messages Meeting in advance of the September meeting?
  • No - possibly could be a break-out session at the September meeting
  • VR to determine next steps on broader community message and circulate with group via email