Implementers - December 3 2019
- Wesley Brown
- Brian Taliesin
Last Meeting Notes: Implementers - November 5 2019
AGENDA
Item | Lead (Time) | Notes and Updates |
|---|---|---|
Software Development Update Roadmap: Living Product Roadmap Current sprint: Backlog Grooming Sprint 138 Upcoming sprint: Backlog Grooming Sprint 139 Version 3.8:
Team stats: https://openlmis.atlassian.net/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=12504 Velocity:  | Wesley Brown, Sebastian Brudziński (5 min) | Version 3.8 Update Looking for feedback from the community for prioritization of upcoming sprint. Slower progress on past few sprints to resolve a few issues (reported by Malawi and Angola) looking to make into 3.8, before end of year. Improvement to configuration of new users Improvements to regression testing (see OpenLMIS Discourse forum) |
| Global Product Committee Update | No meeting was held due to the in-person OpenLMIS meetings in South Africa. | |
| Study Tours | Rebecca Alban (Unlicensed) | Study tours underway right now! Will loop back with trip report and circle back to delegation from Cameroon, conversations to use OpenLMIS and remaining barriers. (CHAI is leading from Cameroon side.) |
| OpenLMIS Sustainability Meetings | Wesley Brown and other attendees (20 min) | In-Progress Wiki Page: Community Meeting 2019 Representatives from Resonance, BMGF, and USAID. 2.5 days on sustainability work, deeper discussion on prioritized option, great learning sessions from Angola and Malawi, and PCMT (product catalog management tool). Useful to see how the support process in-country works. Conversations around what is important to the community to maintain for OpenLMIS future (e.g., maintain open source and support for current implementations). See the picture of the four boards of notes. Feedback at meeting that option two (partnership to handover) was most viable. Although some concern regarding principles important to the community. Have time to figure this out and explore partnerships and mitigate concerns. Opportunity for other global goods to follow (and of interest to BMGF). Private option unlikely to pursue based on current conversations with donors and potential partners. Business model did not seem to be viable (and reduces risk of maintaining two products). Still questions of free vs. paid aspects. ? Partnership of private company in conflict with "free" open source access and sustainability within country (as donors are moving away from supporting maintenance)? Example with recent move to v3. Need to provide long-term sustainability plan that does not just maintain, but improves the product. Is one of the main things discussed at the meeting and balancing costs. Need to prioritize countries as beneficiaries. ? VillageReach provide ongoing support? Details of partnership still to be determined. ? Private option seeing current implementing partners as competitors? So far see the current community as positive. ? Data sharing agreements? Would need to be an MOU in place with the countries. One of the partners have experience with this. |
3.9 Feature Priorities | Wesley Brown (5 min) | Feature Backlog: Feature Backlog Feedback from OpenLMIS Implementers Meetings:
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Next PC meeting: Topic ideas?? | Implementation/Partner Update, Feature Priorities Demo of SIGLUS on 4-Feb | |
Additional Requests and Information: |
ATTENDANCE:
RECORDING:
- Wesley Brown to paste meeting link once ready
- Wesley Brown to coordinate SIGLUS demo for February PC meeting
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