Hello everyone,
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to our community meetups this year! Your input is invaluable.
To ensure transparency, this post serves as a list of all the major topics we’ve discussed since February. We are actively tracking these themes to help shape the CHT’s future.
Here are the topics that the community has raised:
February
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Community First: Shaping a collaborative, community-driven roadmap.
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Governance: Defining clear structures, roles, and decision-making processes.
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Campaigns: Developing features for workflows, alerts, and microplanning.
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Interoperability: Integrating with other systems via the CHT FHIR API.
March
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Participation & Governance: Focusing on working groups, onboarding, and documentation.
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FHIR & Interoperability: Integrating with OpenHIE, OpenMRS, and diverse deployments.
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Mobile Device Management (MDM): Addressing challenges of scalable eCHIS deployment.
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Transparency: Encouraging sharing of ongoing work and resource planning.
April
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Integration & AI: Multi-program integration and exploring AI applications.
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AI Use Cases: Task prioritization, data insights, and chatbot support.
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Developer Experience: Improving onboarding and setting up local environment support.
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Hosting & Architecture: Evaluating multi-node hosting and resource estimation.
May
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Scaling & Deployment: Increasing replication depth and moving to cht-core Helm charts.
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Community Growth: Creating more “Good First Issues” for new contributors.
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Version Releases: Preparing for 5.0 and exploring release cadence.
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Feature Development: Advancing notifications and multi-lingual support.
June
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Version Updates: Transitioning to Helm charts and managing hosting types.
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New Features: Supporting facility workflows and RTL language support.
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Campaigns & Data: Focusing on data sharing and real-time dashboards.
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Documentation: Updating deployment docs and community input tools.
July
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Localization: Adding RTL support and planning Afghanistan deployments.
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Bluetooth & Data: Enhancing functionality for sharing between CHWs and supervisors.
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AI Prototyping: Internal AI chatbot for CHWs and user-built workflows.
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Future Engagement: Collaborating on knowledge sharing and open-source LLMs.
August
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AI Doc Assistant: Demo of Kapa.ai for documentation underway.
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YouTube Channel: Inventory compiled for reviewing outdated content.
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User Visibility: Refactoring for Consistent Online/Offline Data Rules.
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CouchDB & Postgres: Proposal to use Postgres for analytics alongside CouchDB.
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Data Loss: Investigating rare crashes causing data loss on devices.
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High Storage Use: Task force investigating causes of large storage use.
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SMS Duplicates: Addressing performance issues with duplicate detection.
September
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Interoperability: Using OpenIMIS integration as a model for OpenHIE/EMRs.
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Document Limit: Investigating the 10,000 document guideline and potential solutions.
This list is a testament to our community’s vibrant and collaborative spirit. These discussions directly influence our priorities and the focus of our working groups. Here are more detailed notes from our Meetups.
How to Get Involved:
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Join the Conversations: Participate in community events including Meetups, squad calls and Round-up calls.
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Contribute to Docs: Help us improve onboarding and guidance.
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Tackle a “Good First Issue” or explore “Help Wanted Issues”: A great way for new contributors to start.
We encourage you to continue the conversation on these topics in their respective categories or bring new ideas to our next meetup!