25 February 2025 Call
Thank you again for your active engagement at the 2nd CHT Community Meetup.
We have uploaded the recording here and below are some highlights from our discussion:
1. Recap of our first CHT Community Meetup.
We had our first CHT Community Meetup event on Feb 11 where we discussed the Community First pivot which focuses on building an inclusive CHT community and empowering community members to participate, engage and actively contribute to the CHT. In that meeting, we also dived deeper into some of the CHT and CHT community priorities and needs, the priorities that we discussed have been documented in this sheet. As a way forward, we will form various focused working groups to work on specific initiatives, community members and organizations will be invited to join the working groups to contribute in co-designing and developing solutions.
2. Ideas on how we can increase CHT community participation and contribution.
Community members shared a number of approaches that we can adopt to help grow the CHT community and increase community contributions and engagements, this included:
- Having the required technical capacity and resources within the community to guide new contributors.
- Implementing CHT fellowship and mentorships programs.
- We could explore using Artificial intelligence (AI) to help provide support and guidance to CHT users.
- Providing a sandbox environment to enable Developers to experiment, test and learn.
- Forming community squads to support deeper collaboration, mentorship and cross learning while building CHT improvements.
- Ensuring there is modularity in the CHT architecture to allow for changes to be made in small modules.
It was also suggested that a list of existing squads, anticipated squads and high level information of the work the existing squads are working on should be shared in public places to allow community members to see ongoing and upcoming initiatives for them to contribute based on their interest.
3. Making CHT FHIR Compliant.
It was highlighted the second time that there is a need to make CHT FHIR compliant so that it is easy to interoperate CHT with other systems. There is already ongoing work on CHT FHIR interoperability, a community group will be formed to deep dive into the CHT interoperability work and the areas that can be improved.
4. Governance Discussion and Updates.
CHT Community Governance was raised as one of the priorities for CHT during the first CHT Community Meetup, hence a call to discuss CHT governance was organized on Feb 20. At the governance call, various community members outlined insightful questions which covered the following topics: governance structure (how conflicts will be resolved and will Medic continue to be the CHT maintainer), platform sustainability (there are risks of community members forking CHT to meet their needs), development and prioritisation of features and community participation and contributions. More details about what was discussed can be accessed here. The Next governance call will be held on March 6 at 2:00 PM GMT. This event will be a great opportunity for you to continue to share ideas on how we can make our community more inclusive, you can join this meeting using this Zoom Link.
The governance group will continue to have more follow up conversations to define and understand the priorities which will inform the necessary structures that need to be set up to support the community first approach, the group will keep the community updated on their progress.
We hope to see each other again at the next Governance call on March 6 at 2pm GMT. Please plan to join other upcoming community calls including: the CHT Community Meetup which will be happening on March 11 at 1pm GMT and the March 2025 Round-up call which has been scheduled for March 13 at 1pm GMT.