OpenMPE Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

27 Aug 2004

Present: John Wolff, Paul Edwards, Donna Garverick, Steve Suraci, Mark Klein, John Burke
Absent: Birket Foster, Alan Tibbetts, Ron Horner

2004-08-27-01 Minutes	RESOLVED that the revised minutes of 06 Aug 2004 be ratified.
2004-08-27-02 HPWorld	S. Suraci and D. Garverick provided reports of the OpenMPE session at the conference The 3000 Newswire will provide OpenMPE with free advertising to help support the fund raising campaigne Interex should be approached to see if they will provide similar advertising Very few MPE customers were at the conference Discussed next year's HPWorld conference and considered the impact of new "technical" conference sponsored by HP
2004-08-27-03 Board Meeting Time	Having reached the end of the summer, it is time to evaluate the current meeting time. J. Burke stated that the current meeting time will prevent him from attending future meetings and suggested a new meeting time of 12pm (et)/9am (pt). The Board agreed to resolve the issue via an email vote. J. Burke to send email to the entire board.
2004-08-27-04 Fund Raising Campaigne	A plan must be developed for how to do this fund raiser We need to get started quickly with initial mailing to 3rd-party MPE software vendors A professional logo would be helpful Should committees be formed to get all the task accomplished? S. Suraci to draft letter to vendors and HP3000-L and OPENMPE-L email lists
2004-08-27-05 MPE Training	P. Edwards and Frank Smith have been given HP's MPE training material. They will be allowed to update and use this information to present MPE training classes to interested parties.
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Unless otherwise noted, all resolutions were carried by the unanimous vote of all members present.
Minutes ratified 17 Sep 2004