November 13, 2018

Introductions and Call opening

• Notes from October Governance call

October Notes

Roll call and quick introductions by all the participants.  

Wes:

Claim Your Account: https://forum.openlmis.org/t/how-to-claim-your-account/831

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Introduce Yourself: https://forum.openlmis.org/t/introduce-yourself/832/6

FAQ: https://forum.openlmis.org/faq

Rebecca- our Opportunities/Inquiries google group was also migrated to Discourse- folks will now have to login to see these exchanges rather than get emails

• is email forwarding a possible option?

TO DO Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed) and Wesley Brown to follow up and test out the inquiries google group migration and ensure main member are signed up and see the new way to follow along.

OpenHIE Supply Chain Interoperability

29 Jan 2019 was the date decided for the "midterm checking' meeting in Washington, DC

If you need help with travel, talk to Kaleb 

Team will be setting up interviews in the coming days; 

If there are any documents that are relevant to the sustainability work, there is a document repository here: 

Documents for Research on OpenLMIS potential

Discussion:

Ashraf: Given our experiences we've had, I feel option 2 seems reasonable and provides good value to the country (if we can provide competition).

Stew: Being on the evaluation side of the proposals, a question asked is does the country have to manage both partners? 

Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated): There can be a prime and sub situation where an implementer only liaisons with one organization.

Carl Leitner: encourages the community to not do "teaming" agreements where on tech partner only works with one implementing partner.

Stew: "clients" will want to know if the tech partner changes and there should be standard language in the proposal if the sub-contractor changes.

Ashraf: highlights that with Global Fund and USAID will have more ridge rules around prime and sub relationships.

Carl Leitner: can we track our overall success rate of our proposals? We should be reflecting on what worked and didn't.

Ashraf: it would be up to organization to share what details they want with the community

Stew: Cautionary of how we evaluate our "success" and failures in going after bids/opportunities because we could discourage people putting in bids if they think they will "lose".  Use caution with this metric.

Brandon Bowersox-Johnson: regarding sharing the results of who partnered, what happened and what the decision was. Should we give preference to partners with an on-the-ground presence?  Brandon doesn't think we should at this point in time.

• Trusted Partners are developing slides to present at the GHSC OpenLMIS event- increase visibility as partners

TO DO Check in with organizations to see if we extract capability information so that we have capability statements on our website.

TO DO Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed) Send around the Trusted Partner statement of support for review before finalizing.

OpenLMIS Community Lunch Meeting

-Who can help? (If you can, I'll follow up with you over email)

Chris Opit may have some contacts.

Conferences and Meetings

Conferences provide the community the opportunity for OpenLMIS members to speak or represent the OpenLMIS software and community in public forum.

Opportunities Roundtable

Definitions to use shared terminology:

• Implementation opportunity: an opportunity for an implementation or deployment of the OpenLMIS software.  Usually this is done at a national or sub-national level within a ministry of health. This can also include feature work which would be done within the implementation and contributed back to the global codebase.
• Community opportunity: a funding opportunity to support an organization or individual to work directly on the global codebase and/or administrate the community processes. This may include funding specific features on the community roadmap.

• This Trello table is being updated on an ongoing basis; to help the core team to track and manage implementation opportunities, but also provides a detailed snapshot of the scope and status of current implementation opportunities for stakeholders.

Comparison Matrix of Different OpenLMIS versions/products

(put on Agenda in December meeting)

Would like to re-energize this activity:

1) who is interested in participating? FOLLOW UP Mary Jo Kochendorfer (Deactivated) & Ashraf will support on this

2) ISG is developing a set of functional requirements for SCM systems

Draft document is accessible here

Want the WHO functional requirements aligned with the ISG- hope to get all of these aligned

Community Meeting