Stream: smart/scheduling-links
Topic: Connectathon
Josh Mandel (Apr 02 2021 at 16:06):
We're gearing up for our first Connectathon, and I wanted to share some draft plans at https://github.com/smart-on-fhir/smart-scheduling-links/wiki/Connectathon-Plans. Since we want to move quickly, we're thinking about doing this as more of an asynchronous event than a typical HL7 Connectathon, to allow folks who are ready now to get started quickly (and to allow others to join as they come up to speed). We'd still have a couple of "in-person" (live) sessions to discuss progress and wrap up, but would expect most debugging and discussion to happen here. Would love to get thoughts, ideas, etc on this plan :-)
Henry Wei (Apr 02 2021 at 16:08):
Process question: given the extraordinary significance of this work, and that many potential connectathon participants may not be woven into the FHIR community — would GitHub or another parallel forum in addition to Zulip a good place to “hub” this particular connectathon? Lists and sheets can still be restricted.
Henry Wei (Apr 02 2021 at 16:09):
Asking for several Engineering colleagues who are much more familiar with GitHub but don’t use Zulip / chat.FHIR.org as they spend time in other non-health / non-FHIR domains.
Josh Mandel (Apr 02 2021 at 16:13):
We'll be tracking "state" HL7 Confluence and GitHub Issues (and maybe some Google Sheets) -- but we definitely want chat with public history so folks can share experience and debug. We've had folks joining this channel as their first experience with Zulip / HL7 / FHIR, and it seems to work OK. (The only alternatives I know are... stand up a different chat server.)
Ryan Owens (Apr 06 2021 at 21:08):
@Josh Mandel Am I totally missing it or does the Connectathon Github page not list the actual event date(s) anywhere? I know you talked on the call about it being more of an async format, but can you remind me of when you're expecting to kick it off?
Josh Mandel (Apr 06 2021 at 21:13):
We're planning to kick off here for anyone who's ready starting Monday. The only formally scheduled synchronous event for now is a debrief / wrap-up / discussion at 12p ET on 4/22. We can add more structure as we go, if for example we identify hot topics for which we'd like to do break-out sessions.
Josh Mandel (Apr 06 2021 at 21:14):
(This is a bit outside the norm for HL7 connectathons, but we want to make sure folks can join and be productive ASAP.)
Ryan Argentieri (Apr 21 2021 at 01:16):
Anyone who'd like to join the wrap-up session on Thursday, please register here: https://kauffmaninc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIod-quqTsuHdxyVt1AIs3tCOuHHLeP5EUX . Ongoing questions related to this work can be surfaced via chat here or sent to smartscheduling@hl7.org
Ryan Argentieri (Apr 21 2021 at 01:17):
And keep testing using Inferno if you haven't already: https://infernotest.healthit.gov/community/
Ryan Argentieri (Apr 22 2021 at 02:01):
@Nick Muerdter @Mike Maass @Rob Brackett hope you can all make it for a live recap tomorrow 4/22 12-130pm EST. Register here if you haven't already. That goes for everyone else following. :)
Brett Marquard (Apr 23 2021 at 10:53):
I missed the recap, how did it go :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
Josh Mandel (Apr 23 2021 at 13:22):
I thought it went great, but I'm biased ;-)) Was excellent to have such strong, direct support from across the federal stakeholders (Micky and Andy teed us up with an inspiring and directly relevant introduction; Ryan prepared a full agenda and MC'd) -- and we heard from connectathon participants and others who are just getting started.
I'd love to have feedback from folks who joined (here or privately). As I said, doing this as an "asynchronous event" was an experiment.
Robert Scanlon (Apr 26 2021 at 13:26):
I agree, it was both inspirational & educational, which qualifies it as a great use of time in my book.
Robert Scanlon (Apr 26 2021 at 13:35):
I think I preferred this to a traditional Connectathon, because it gave my team some time to put in a few iterations on our implementation while I knew people were still engaged. I do think a face-to-face kickoff meeting with the broad group would have been helpful though. Overall, great job :thumbs_up:
Michael O'Keefe (Apr 27 2021 at 12:43):
As part of that team, I agree with both of these points :)
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