Welcome & Introductions (Plenary)

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

Leads: Dykki, Sarah, Edward

To Join Remotely:

Join the call: https://www.uberconference.com/info3285

Optional dial-in number: 716-293-6106

PIN: 63498

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!

Artifacts: