OpenMPE Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

18 May 2006

Present: John Wolff, Paul Edwards, Matt Perdue, Donna Garverick, Alan Tibbetts, Bill Lancaster, Chuck Ciesinski, Jennifer Fisher
Absent: Birket Foster

2006-05-18-01 Minutes	RESOLVED that the minutes of: 06 Mar 2006 be ratified as amended. J. Fisher and B. Lancaster abstaining. RESOLVED that the minutes of: 16 Mar 2006 be ratified as amended. J. Fisher and B. Lancaster abstaining.
2006-05-18-02 Bill Lancaster	B. Lancaster requested an extended leave of absence but is open to resigning if the Board feels it is necessary. For now, the Board is agreeable to a Leave of Absence of ~90 days. Since B. Lancaster is on the by-law subcommittee, he'll need to be replaced. RESOLVED to accept B. Lancaster's Leave of Absence request, B. Lancaster abstaining. The Leave of Absence to be reviewed mid-August. While on Leave of Absence, B. Lancaster is not required to participate in any e-mail voting.
2006-05-18-03 By-law Subcommittee	J. Wolff, M. Perdue and B. Lancaster are the current subcommittee members. With B. Lancaster going on leave, J. Fisher will be taking his place.
2006-05-18-04 Polling Membership	J. Wolff is interested in sending a mass e-mail to the membership asking about: how many MPE systems they're running by model what release(s) of MPE if on a supported release, are they still patching? Are they applying beta patches? Doing the mailing will also determine the quality of our e-mail addresses. C. Ciesinski to draft survey form. D. Garverick to draft 'invitation' e-mail and to check with J. Burke and J. Dunlop and Randy Medd (regarding MPE e-mail client).
2006-05-18-05 Encompass	C. Ciesinski continues to work with Encompass for the upcoming conference.
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Unless otherwise noted, all resolutions were carried by the unanimous vote of all members present.
Minutes ratified 13 Jul 2006