January 19, 2016

6AM PST - Seattle

9AM EST - New York, DC

4PM CEST - CEST, Geneva, Copenhagen

5PM EAT - Dar


Monthly OpenLMIS Governance Committee Call. This meeting includes members of the governance committee, as well as anyone else interested in participating. 

Call Details:
Meeting Number: 191 186 622

US Audio: WebEx Online or +1-415-655-0001
International Audio: WebEx Online


Action Items From Last Meeting - Status

    • Sarah Jackson (Deactivated) to ensure there is one calendar invite with correct WebEx
    • Kevin Cussen (Deactivated) to share product roadmap (including translations) with country teams – cancelled
    • Country teams to begin socializing OpenLMIS community with country reps
    • Tenly Snow (Deactivated) Begin planning for OpenLMIS Community Webinar
    • Read re-architecture plan and add questions as comments to the page – Webinar scheduled

Attendees

Mattias Wiklund - JSI

Lakshmi - CHAI

Geoffrey Weber - CHAI

Gaurav Bhattacharya - CHAI

Lindabeth - USAID

Agenda

TopicDurationWhoNotes
Expanding Country Participation in OpenLMIS Community  

Reviewed Country Participation plan

Roadshow:

  • Need to be very clear on roadshow objectives, and create preparatory brief for country teams
  • How will countries to visit be determined?
  • What funding would be available to support participation from partners? Envisioning joint-funding from OpenLMIS and participating org.

Important to discuss upgrade path with countries

Roadmap - Will be included in Webinar, but will not be distributed as a handout.

Suggestion: Create an OpenLMIS User Group Mailing List (like IAPHL)

  • Tenly Snow (Deactivated) to reach out to community to determine who may be interested in participating in the roadshow (JSI & CHAI both expressed interest on the call)

Updates:

Introducing Tenly

Newly available "Intro to OpenLMIS" collateral

Re-Architecture Webinar

  

Re-Architecture Webinar is next Wednesday.

  • Tenly Snow (Deactivated) When sending reminder about Webinar, include FYI that the call will be recorded for later viewing.
Governance Priorities for 2016  

What do we want to work on this year?Participants needed more time to look over the priorities list generated at the community meeting to think about it. Possible Priorities: Sustainability, Funding, Marketing & Outreach, Country Participation

Opportunities:  

Uganda (CHAI) - Open Issues: Requirements and funding. Scope: Facility-level deployment, android-based, pilot, interoperability with Sage. Goal would be to develop an android client for use in multiple countries.

Malawi (JSI/VR): In final approval stages with USAID

SWEDD (UNFPA): Cote d’ivoire, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Chad, Niger

Vaccine Management Functionality: Possibile funding from BMGF

Ongoing Projects Updates:

Tanzania / Zambia / Mozambique (CHAI) / Mozambique (VR) /

Benin / Cote D'Ivore

  

Mozambique Phase 2: ARVs & Essential Medicines Complete. Adding Nutrition and Child Health in P2.

Benin: Phase 2 Deployment (on different code line)

Mozambique: Cold Trace Integration (on different code line)

Tanzania: mSupply (Zanzibar) integrated with eLMIS. VIMS - BMGF arriving soon for mini-showcase.

Zambia: Deployment continuing. Contacts: Wendy Bomett (PM) and Chris_Opit@zm.jsi.com (technical lead).

Tenly Snow (Deactivated) add Chris to OpenLMIS contacts list.


 


 

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