OpenMPE Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

18 Dec 2003

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

2003-12-18-01
Minutes		 RESOLVED that the minutes of 16 Oct 2003 be ratified
2003-12-18-02
Future of OpenMPE		 There is, and has been growing for quite some time, considerable concern on the part of the board regarding the seemingly stalled process of giving MPE a home and a hope past 2006. As Jon Backus has had a change in work situation and has much less time to devote to the work, it was RESOLVED that Birket Foster call Mike Paivinen with the following agenda:
  1. To find out what HP believes that OpenMPE's role is in the future.
  2. In specific, to get a definitive answer as to whether HP desires to work with some group rather than OpenMPE.
  3. To find out if HP would consider placing the MPE source code with some other organization.
  4. To make it completely clear to HP what MPE needs to survive--that there must be some understanding with the community as to who will maintain MPE after 2006 and that that entity needs to know now so as to prepare.
  5. To find out precisely what HP thinks of OpenMPE's proposed "Agreement in Principle" and to obtain, if possible, the current MPE process document for handling source code changes and a list, from HP's point of view, of activities which are expected to happen in the process of transferring MPE's care to some other group.
  6. To notify HP, as a courtesy, that OpenMPE intends to post the text of the proposed AIP to the OpenMPE list.
2003-12-18-03
Next Meeting		 Due to the urgency of the situation and the need to communicate with our membership with all convenient haste, it was RESOLVED that the next meeting be the following day at the usual time.
Minutes Prev 16 Oct 2003 Next 19 Dec 2003

Unless otherwise noted, all resolutions were carried by the unanimous vote of all members present.
Minutes ratified 19 Dec 2003