June 11, 2019

Introductions and Call opening

• Notes from May Governance call

May Notes 

5 minute update 

June 25 & 26 at the PATH office

Global Health Happy Hour on June 25th, hosted by Gates. Details tbd

Detailed agenda will be circulated in advance

Governance webinar to be hosted tomorrow ndavis@resonanceglobal.com can send you call in information for this webinar. 10AM EST tomorrow

For other (non Trusted Partners) that the community works with, there is currently no definition or name.

Suggestion: Donors and thought partners such as Digital Square, DIAL, GS1 be part of an 'Advisory Council'

Can/should we formalize what these roles are in the community? Would it be useful to spell out these roles? 

How does this relate to the Resonance work and the OpenLMIS future state? Does it make sense to sort these things out now?

It might be useful to have some draft language in the back of our minds, so we can have in mind what the implications are of some of the different business models

Emily: these things most likely will be changing, but good to think about how they will change to feed into the Resonance discussion

next step: meeting with Car, Rebecca, & Emily to document current state, and validate what Resonance has already documented. Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed) to set up a call

There is a need to increase the number of developers and implementing partners who know the OpenLMIS system well enough to support a deployment. Having a large pool of global assets will assist us to quickly mobilize TA, and hopefully lower our costs

iHRIS developed a self-paced online course on Moodle- to give the basics

Is there a recognized need for increased capacity development and find ways to pursue it? 

Brandon: Yes, how to onboard trusted partners and build education is a need. Can TPs join a Study Tour or see it in use? Or a week-long developer bootcamp to help spin up the instance of their computer. This is an important issue as we have grown so much in the past year

Edward: what skills would be needed to do certain tasks (customization, etc.). understanding the competencies needed FIRST might be helpful before diving into developing a training. 

Core competencies to focus on: 

-general familiarity with the system (what it can do, how it can be used). This might be tough with written materials- hands on experience is preferred

-architecture, understanding software and how it is constructed and deployed, maintained

-other non-software specific areas that we should focus on? 

Carl suggestion: Let's take the outputs of the workshop, get some direction there, look at the skills matrix that we discussed earlier, and see where we have a gap in educational resources, we can use that as a process to identify gaps

The Community Meeting in November will be a key opportunity for us to gather partners and do capacity building with them, particularly new partners

next governance call- talk about skills gaps and topics that should be covered at the Community meeting. Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed) do add this to the agenda

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.

Community Opportunities:

• New Trello table! Similar to the above table, this tool is being used by the stewards to track our exploring of new product opportunities and partnerships