Monthly Updates
Monthly Report for May 2008
- Functional Requirements and Software Development
The LMI Wiki has been developed and is fully functional. The code and the document for that application are available on http://wiki.ihris.org/wiki/index.php/Last_Mile_Initiative. Drafts for the voice prompt system requirements and the menu driven system requirements have been posted on the Wiki.
Discussions on equipment and software platform specifications with Qualcomm have been ongoing during the month of May. Partner Updates
Dave and Vanessa attended the Global Health Council in DC during the week of 27 May. Dave gave a talk on Open Source and Community Building and mentioned LMI at a roundtable while Qualcomm announced our partnership for the LMI project. It was at that same event that Vanessa and Dave had the opportunity to meet with Kim.
We are glad to report that our press plan has been approved by Qualcomm and look forward to SRA’s review and feedback.
We have scheduled bi-weekly update calls with Qualcomm every other week on Thursday at 11am EST. If you are available for the call on 19 June, it would be wonderful for everyone to touch base. You are of course invited to all future calls as well.
We are preparing to post all project documents (including weekly updates) on the Wiki. This is a process we have already used in Uganda and which turned out to be successful there.
- Operations
Internally, we have submitted paper timesheets for all work done prior to 05.2008 and IntraHealth’s contracts unit has submitted them to SRA along with monthly invoices. We thank you for your feedback on the submitted monthly invoice and timesheets for all work done prior to 05.2008 and will make sure to follow your comments/requests.
Now that we have the sets of functional requirements posted on the Wiki, we look forward to discussing with you how we can get SRA’s approval so that we can shift both sets to “final” status per the requirements of the payment schedule. Please note the use cases will inevitably change in small ways during the development process.
Scopes of work for travel for August and September are currently under development.
