OpenMPE Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

03 Apr 2003

Present: Ted Ashton, Jon Backus, Donna Garverick, Mark Klein, Ken Sletten, Jeff Vance
Absent: Birket Foster, Ron Horner, Christian Lheureux

2003-04-03-01
Minutes
As the minutes for 20 Mar 2003 were not yet ready, the vote on them was postponed until next meeting.
2003-04-03-02
Election of Directors
The annual election of directors was held online. OpenMPE had 124 members at the time of the election and 39 valid ballots were cast. Paul Courry (a member of OpenMPE but not of the board) served as independant auditor. The election resulted in the reelection of Jon Backus, Mark Klein, Ted Ashton and Birket Foster.
2003-04-03-03
Election of Officers
The following officers were then duly nominated and elected:
  • Chair: Jon Backus
  • Vice Chair: Birket Foster
  • Secretary: Ted Ashton
  • Treasurer: Ron Horner
(for: Backus, Garverick, Klein, Sletten, Vance; abstaining: Ashton)
2003-04-03-04
Annual Meeting
The annual meeting was held in Valley Forge during one of the sessions at the east coast Interex e3000 Solutions Symposium. There were 20 people in the audience, 3 of whom were OpenMPE members and 7 of whom were on the OpenMPE discussion list.
2003-04-03-05
MPE forum, Licensing
The was no news to report on the MPE forum or regarding licensing, though it was mentioned that OpenMPE should create a contingency plan in case HP sometime decides to get out of the MPE licensing business.
2003-04-03-06
Web site
Ron Horner has taken over care of the web site.
2003-04-03-07
HP Liason
HP has expressed a desire to have Jeff move from being a member of the OpenMPE board to filling the role of HP Liason to OpenMPE. There has been some discussion within HP regarding the possibility of someone from HP to fill that seat.
Minutes Prev 20 Mar 2003 Next 15 May 2003

Unless otherwise noted, all resolutions were carried by the unanimous vote of all members present.
Minutes ratified 29 May 2003