Welcome & Introductions (Plenary)

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Last updated: Oct 02, 2015 by Sandy Hawley (Deactivated)
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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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