Welcome & Introductions (Plenary)

Description: Meeting Themes: Community Formation, Technical Architecture, Core Product Roadmap

Leads: Dykki, Sarah, Edward

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Notetaker: Sandy Hawley, VillageReach

Notes from Session:

Acknowledgement of progress and how far the community has come with impact in 5 countries
Open discussion around the hopes and fears of the community:

HOPES

common future found
stay together and understand country needs
common track with shared understanding and ability to articulate value
coming to consensus on a technical approach that resolves fragmentation and moves us to common core
live up to promise
create community vision, process, etc to move forward together
community evolves to include true clients
hope community continues to grow
learn as much as possible and find synergies w/Ebola recovery work
hope to learn how to help countries sustain prior investments

FEARS
- avoid fragmentation, forking, spiders
- maintaining a shared perspective outside or above the project/individual level
- collaboration challenges
- ability to deliver quality solutions within reasonable time frame
- finding balance between structure and flexibility
- ability to simplify- identifying core functionality - articulation of solutions, shared use cases - making it easier to communication core value
- keeping up with demand
- scaring countries away because of complexity
- sustainability (with shrinking budgets) how do we better support countries (right now it's not sustainable) while also growing/expanding to more countries
- how to scale the community
- balance of increasing dev/features

Group Activity - History of OpenLMIS- everyone posted milestones to a timeline as documented below
- 2008
  - 1st workshop in Zambia to review needs for eLMIS
  - eHealth Bellago Series; EA for health
- 2009
  - CRDM for logistics started with PATH (funded by Rockefeller Foundation)
- 2010
  - Zambia decided that we had to go with open system
  - CRDM 1.0 released by PATH
- 2011
  - Grant to VillageReach for OpenLMIS core
  - TZ requirements workshop based on CRDM
  - 1st DC OpenLMIS meetings
- 2012
  - TZ/ZM countries join OpenLMIS
- 2013
  - Creation of initial OpenLMIS community principals, vision
  - OpenLMIS 0.9 version completed and JSI started program (coding) for MVP 1.0
  - eLMIS MVP 1.0 went live in October
  - UNCoLSC funding
  - Comm Trac / CommCare Supply Integration
  - Trained TZ LMU on eLMIS
- 2014
  - VAN Project
  - eLMIS version 2 and 3 completed
  - Official launch of eLMIS in ZM (February)
  - SELV - informed push Mozambique in 4 out of 10 provinces
  - Feature Guide + OpenLMIS.org developed and enhanced
  - Zanzibar implementation
- 2015
  - CHAI, VR, TW JSI all on same code base (but 2 repos)
  - CHAI MOZ decides to use OpenLMIS - facilitate modeling of branches
  - MOZ ESMS Project started with CHAI and TW
  - MOZ decides to use OpenLMIS, using eLMIS as a starting point to build a unified code
  - MOZ CHAI, TW - an Android based field stock management frontend app released
  - VIMS module started in March
  - BMGF funds OpenLMIS 2015-2017
  - TZ eLMIS> E9 integration
  - TZ- DHIS2 - eLMIS integration Official launch of eLMIS
  - eLMIS to mSupply integration - Zanzibar
  - Benin Implementation "SIIGL"
  - Cote d'Voire implementation
  - eLMIS in Zanzibar (mWarehouse)
  - OpenLMIS Community Meeting!

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