| 2010-03-25-01 Introductory Remarks |
Birket Foster: Thank you's for the letters to departing members, Keith and Tracy for drafting a Business Plan. Mentions the prior work done with HP and other parties to get where we are now and we are entering a new phase. |
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| 2010-03-25-02 Secretary's Report |
No prior minutes to offer at this time. |
| 2010-03-25-03 Treasurer's Report |
A second $1000 contribution was receives from a previous anonymous contributor. $500 received from Ron Seybold on Newswire, needs receipt. Taxes have been filed, there are no taxes due in Maryland or U.S. as a not-for-profit corporation. No shares have been issued. Hostway site hosting cost little over $47 a quarter. |
| 2010-03-25-04 Election of Officers |
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| 2010-03-25-05 Paul Raulerson and Web Site |
Board approves that Paul Raulerson to be invited to attend our meeting in three weeks time to discuss his website work and that our internal HP3000 URL be disseminated to the Board Members to review his demo website. |
| 2010-03-25-06 INVENT3K and INVENT3K-2 |
Our INVENT3K is a 989/650 Matt has set up as successor to HP's original
INVENT3K. INVENT3K2 is a 979/400 contributed by Client Systems.
INVENT3K should be accessible same role as it had by HP.
INVENT3K-2 would be an internal machine. Suggests the roles be reversed
as the disc space is greater on 3k2.
Matt suggested patches be current before going "go-live".
Birket suggested "go-live" be performed and patches be done later.
Matt suggests we need a policy statement and a fee structure. No vote was taken. |
| 2010-03-25-07 JAZZ |
Matt states we only need to get Paul Raulerson to work on it. No vote was taken. |
| 2010-03-25-08 COMMERCIAL ACCESS TO INVENT3K |
Commercial usage and rental by a firm. Keith suggests to ask for them to
resend last years RFQ, Tracy to directed to make contact. No vote was taken. |
| 2010-03-25-09 EMULATOR PROJECT |
Matt: Per HP, collaboration source code access, contracting with each other
is O.K for a minimal fee. Birket quoted a customer: It is cheaper to pay
half a million a year (on an emulator) as an insurance policy in case they
need something done to keep something alive, than it would be to than to
swap their stuff out, because they have 32 HP3000's running their business.
Remainder of topic discussed under executive session. No vote was taken. |
| 2010-03-25-10 BUSINESS PLAN |
Discussions on fundraising, membership, easier methods of payment.
Question asked about a fundraising campaign. Birket wanted to first approach
those who would talk to OpenMPE after the Source Code milestone was reached.
Fee structure and revenue stream from major support players such as:
The Support Group, Beechglen, Allegro, Gilles Schipper, Abtech, and other
support services. Birket suggested a Chair for Membership and Fundraising.
No vote was taken. |
| 2010-03-25-11 Next meeting |
Next meeting scheduled for 08 Apr 2010. |
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