April 19, 2016
- Tenly Snow (Deactivated)
7AM PST - Seattle
10AM EST - New York, DC
5PM CEST - CEST, Geneva, Copenhagen
6PM EAT - Dar
| Topic | Duration | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Re-Architecture Timeline/Actions | 15 | Jake Watson (Deactivated) |
| Committee Charter | 20 | Jake Watson (Deactivated) |
| Opportunities | 10 | Brian Taliesin |
| AOB | 10 | All |
Attendees
Ashraf Islam - JSI
Brian Taliesin - PATH
Marasi Mwencha - JSI
Sarah Jackson - VillageReach
Tenly Snow - VillageReach
Kevin Cussen - VillageReach
Jake Watson - VillageReach
Meeting Recording
Notes
| Topic | Duration | Facilitator Lead | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Re-Architecture Timeline/Actions | 10 | Jake Watson (Deactivated) | Design session was held last week. Went through various use cases, how to customize the solution in the new architecture. Seemed to go well in the modeling exercises. Hope to get something further out, Josh has been working on this and will share with Elias in the afternoon. Notes on the design workshop are on the wiki. Working on putting together the various menu options with an eye toward a beta release this fall. Still on track. We will send over a memo to Gates by the end of this month and have an in-person meeting with them on May 9. We will be starting on the work first thing in May regardless of whether or not we get additional funds for the acceleration. There's a need to get a platform out. Brian: Looking ahead to the Gates meeting, what is the risk or what will it look like if they don't provide funding for the acceleration? Jake: We would end up burning through our grant faster and wouldn't get as far with the visioned support. We went through and put the feature list into buckets, but basically we would just have to stop. Ashraf: If you still plan to go through with the re-architecture without separate funding of its own, what would be the plan for existing implementations? Jake: Existing county implementations are essentially on their own. Gates has expressed that they aren't really interested in paying for country upgrades. It may be different for JSI's implementations, more interest in upgrading the eLMIS branch. Not sure if there would be much of a change. |
| Committee Charters | 15 | In the course of the project, we're going to need to make decisions as things arise. How are we going to make decisions as a group, what are the rules for making decisions, do we need to have a quorum? No proposal currently, but wanted to pose this to the committee, form a working group, and come up with a draft. Wanted to start with the governance committee before getting charters in place for the product and technical committees. We will need to do some work outside of the regularly scheduled calls. Ashraf: What is the plan and how much involvement would you require for that? Suggest having four organizations participate in the drafting of the charter: VR, JSI, PATH, CHAI. Brian: My concern is that the governance committee currently is product focused than on engaging donors and other voices. How to bring in voices from the edges What is the core mission of the governance committee? Marasi: In the governance committee there needs to be the voice of a donor there, although it may be challenging to get them to participate. Given that none of us can make decisions without money on the table, try to get Lindabeth or Tim as check in points for what has already been developed. Governance shouldn't be looking at software development. More looking at how this product will eventually move. Sarah: One of the things we struggled with is the community we have vs the community we want. Getting participation from the stakeholders is part of this. For the group to work on the charter, include a vision statement around what we want this committee to do and pull together now. Critical items: funding base, donor participation.
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| Opportunities | 15 | VillageReach Malawi - Malawi made the decision to adopt OpenLMIS last year. Everything seems on board, it's a priority of hte mission. Expect by late summer that they would implement openlmis in malawi. the necessity of getting 3.0 out is whether or not to deploy 2.0 or 3.0? The quicker we have 3.0 available, that decision has not yet been made for Malawi. Mozambique - Potential for expansion of SELV for vaccine functionality PATH Uganda - Meetings this wee and next with the MOH there and their supply chain organization. They're reviewing the funding and keep that piece moving. Cambodia- Some country assessments being planned RFIs and Conferences Please see OpenLMIS Opportunities page for RFIs and conferences |
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