OpenMPE Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

22 Apr 2010

Present: Birket Foster, Keith Wadsworth, Tracy Johnson, Matt Perdue, Connie Sellitto, Tony Tibbenham, Jack Connor, Allen Tibbetts
Absent: Anne Howard

2010-04-22-01
Minutes		 Minutes approved for 15 Apr 2010, as amended.
2010-04-22-02
Agenda		 Agenda approved.
2010-04-22-03
Secretary's Report		 Approved: A company to be quoted for commercial access a $500 set-up fee and $500/month 3 month minumum. Remainder of fees and services to be discussed and voted offline.
2010-04-22-04
Guest		 Guest visitor Paul Raulerson for his volunteer effort to revamp the OpenMPE website.
Discussion:
Web site should be functional without Javascript, should be on an HP3000 to promote MPE. Should be 24/7. Possible to host website on a 918? Membership database should also be hosted on an HP3000. Get member database from a 3rd party and re-host it ourselves.
Approved:
Continue to develop what Paul has on these websites and make it compatible in functionality or better to our current website. Take the data of our current website and make it compatible with Paul's demo, which gives Paul some free reign of style and functionality and show it to the Board when ready. At that point we can decide whether to host it on our machine or something else.
2010-04-22-05
Treasurer's Report		 No change from the bank. Need to get announcement about Ron Seybold's contribution. Ron Seybold is also asking about an article about INVENT3K access, and Hobbyists making contributions, reiterate OpenMPE's successes, what our plans are for the near and distant future.
2010-04-22-06
Third Party Usage and Rental		 Discussion:
Software license review before 3rd party may use software, whether OpenMPE is the licensee or not.
Annual support contracts. Does OpenMPE have obligations to maintain them?
  1. Who is planning on using it.
  2. As appropriate OpenMPE would keep it active or not.
  3. Ninety days from the end of the year, our Treasurer would have to do the administrative function of calling the client/contributor and have the contributor confirm they want to have that software.
  4. If there is more than one client using it then split that bill among multiple clients.
  5. Should we have an administrative fee over and above that due to overhead.
  6. Service bureau charges? The license we'd get would have to be for a service bureau.
2010-04-22-07
Third Party Licensing		 Need contact information from HP regarding third party licensing past 2010 for
  1. Mentat: Streams
  2. MKS Posix: Shell.
2010-04-22-08
Fee Structure		 Approved 1: Software installation assistance is charged at $150 per hour or part thereof with a 2 hour minimum.
Tabled 1a: The software must be licensed to OpenMPE so that other INVENT3K users can use it, and we only have to install it once.
Approved 2: Network support is charged to commercial users only at $250 per hour with a 2 hour minimum, no guarantee of fix at that time.
Approved 3: Operational support is only undertaken on a contract basis.
Approved 4: That hobbyist logins are provided at $20 per year. Payment to be in advance and billed annually. No guarantee of availability except best-endeavours.
Approved 5: That hobbyist lifetime logins are provided for a one-off payment of $100. No guarantee of availability except best-endeavours.
Tabled 6: That all fee's chargeable are subject to review annually or at the renewal of any contract if sooner. Terms of use of the service subject to OpenMPE's current Terms of Use Policy.
2010-04-22-09
Next meeting		 Remainder of Agenda tabled and scheduled for 29 Apr 2010.
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Minutes ratified 29 Apr 2010