Oct 8th, 2019

Introductions and Call opening (3 min)

• Notes from September Governance call

September Notes

Welcome, Carl is in Norway

Hosted a webinar last week on Upgrading OpenLMIS- here is the link to the webinar recording

here is the link to the quick demo video on Project Casper showing the upgrade path from v2 to v3

logistics/flights update

please send passport copy to Sierra

Who is going from OpenLMIS Community? Is it worth organizing a side session?

if not, this is a great opportunity to create linkages. Carl will be there; what ideas or connections should we explore on behalf of the community?

Facilitated Discussion with Resonance (40 min)

Resonance Team-Kim Couri & Alice Helbing

-small project funded by USAID (Digital Square/VillageReach collaboration) to solve the problem of master data management; consistent product identification. Project is off and running- beta release to happen this month. 1.0 launch planned for December

-GFP VAN (RHSC Project) will be the first user of this to work on a family planning product catalog

-Akeneo is the open source PIM (product information management tool) that was selected; has user friendly interface to update & edit product information

-Workshop in early December: Digital square and VillageReach are hosting. The workshop will help to make this a country-specific application

Ashraf: question about the platform: Answer: the platform is PHP based, uses Symphony which is similar to Java framework. You could still spin it up in a docker container.

It can serve as a global repository, and a country-level repository for products. They could feed into the global list and enrich the global list

Objective of this work: support GS1 implementation in country, use unique identifiers to allow tracking; hope is that will reduce time and cost for other info systems 

Bianca Poll from Digital Square (bpoll@path.org) is managing the pax list; Malawi delegation representing the MoH, regulatory body; etc. Also Nepal & Rwanda will have a delegation as well and will be in town 

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

Study Tours:

• Study Tours wiki page tracks applications received, study tours completed, and other key milestones related to OpenLMIS Study Tours