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Agenda
August 17, 2017
Attendees:
Andy Kanter
Jeff
Jan
Hamish
Terry
Bill
Paul
Darius
Mark
Informational
- Global Goods-Three RFPS released (GOFR core; GOFR; OpenLMIS) ; targeted development RFP; Future RFP will be released to support additional projects, including OpenMRS
- Profile has been updated; currently shows founded date of 2016 ( re-granting of 5013C3)
- difference between OpenMRS and OpenMRS Inc
- LinkedIn page - Burke has access
Discussion
- OpenMRS conference Update- Christine / Jeff
- MoH announcement about the conference and their commitment
- formal email from OpenMRS - Jeff
- Still needing agreement with hotel
- Strategic invites ( paul will reach out and follow up about funding opportunities)
- we should ask the previous funders (including TW and IMO; potential inclusion of Gates Foundation due to Malawi meeting location)
- who might want to support funders due to their mission
- business like conference- who benefits from access to the conference
- implementing partners/who supports our work
- groups that might benefit from having a presence at the conference (e.g., access to our technology or our community?)
- what sponsorship gets you ( guidelines that are protective)
- Be sure to include IMO (Intelligent Medical Objects) in reach out via Andy
- identifying people and then select them
- Service Provider Program - Draft (Jan/ Darius)
- finding way to stratify the service providers; what is the differentiation ( initial vs experienced doing a previous project)
- informal terms of agreement to be added to the site
- out here for a period of time for comment ; response on Talk
- Infrstructure support update- Burke/Darius
- how much money do we need and for what?
- still need to have some additional discussions
- rediscuss next week with a number and a mechanism
- Bahmni Transition- Darius
- three things to run for the legal review
- Bahmni governance document
- Bahmni Coalition MOU- will be ready on August 24 for review
- Software Conservancy Fiscal Sponsorship- being modified to include the name OpenMRS
- indirects will come to OpenMRS ( 15K is indirect; 5K for legal support; 36K for project manager)
- Path/DIAL funds available to ensure transition of Bahmni into the Bahmni Coalition; no guarantee of future funding
- value of OpenMRS as the fiscal sponsor- explains 12%
- Jeff presented this last week
- asked on Talk for volunteers to assist; creating spread sheet with their names
- Jan and Darius proposed way to approach this
- form working group to move forward
- milestone approvals - where they occur/who approves (LT/BOD/Designated authority)
- OpenMRS Ebola paper to be released in JMIR next week
- Ebola case study can be shared/tweeted once this is released
To Do:
- discuss global good RFP for the future for OpenMRS
- should be for core support
- schedule how we expect to respond to this RFP
- formal letter from OpenMRS- Jeff/Paul
- Review conference support/ funding opportunities
- Burke to come back with a number/plan
- project manager/indirect spend
- Jeff- share the spreadsheet
- bring back milestone /pathway
Monthly Items
- Budget/Expenses/ first Thursday
- Partnerships- third Thursday
- plan meeting for the OMRS conference for the LT
Quarterly Update (link to the quarterly status spreadsheet?)
- Infrastructure Update (Quarterly - Jun, Sep, Dec)
- Ongoing Quarterly metric review of specific areas
Parking Lot Follow Up items
- Follow up re: Pathway to Improved Terminology Management for the OpenMRS Community - Jonathan Payne ( update) - deferred
Notes
