OpenMPE Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

27 May 2009

Present: Birket Foster, John Wolff, Matt Perdue, Anne Howard Tracy Johnson, Walter Murray, Tony Tibbenham
Absent: Donna Hofmeister, Allen Tibbets,

2009-05-27-01
Jazz and INVENT3K Machines
  • (As refrenced in last meeting minutes. Birket spoke more with Alan Yeo regarding OpenMPE regarding fund donations to OpenMPE and (new) Invent3K. Perhaps some other vendors in that category.
  • We have HP's content for Jazz. Except for 3rd party content that was in numbered subdirectories that WGET did not grab. Will need to get a tape from HP. Will need to remove HP's logos. Tony willing to assist. Matt has Jazz CD.
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    2009-05-27-02
    Benefits and Whisper Campaign    		 Tony Tibben and Birket discuss benefits of OpenMPE.
    1. Insurance Policy in case MPE breaks.
    2. Possible fixing of the date breakage in a future emulator.
    3. Emulator as disaster recovery.
    4. Emulator as a look up machine.
    Noted if the HP license fee is not met any donations would be returned.
    2009-05-27-03
    Vendor Jazz Content?    		 Discussion whether 3rd parties should be contacted to donate software for download purposes. Birket-Foster, Adager, Robelle, VESoft, etc.
  • Donna to send draft letter to bayside vendors and who else for people to look at and comment on.
  • Birket-Foster expressed interest during the meeting ...
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    2009-05-27-04
    Emulator    		 Discussion of Board's emulator intentions. Emulator licenses are available from HP and is on their corporate price list. Can also be obtained from Client Systems.
    2009-05-27-05
    Donations    		 Matt states reasons that donations should be sent to him personally vice the accountant. Accountant only records it as income, does not keep a copy of who made the donation or when the donation was made. Or send a PDF of the check to Matt and send the check to Crumbacker.
    One potential donor cited conflict with their goal of getting customers off the HP3000.
    No one has reached Vladimir or Eugene with VESoft.
    2009-05-27-06
    Client Systems    		 Discusssion of when to expect the donated machine from Client Systems, shipping and handling.
    2009-05-27-07
    2027 Date    		 Alan and Walter discuss complexities of date breakage and wrap of both MPE and POSIX date standards vis-a-vis 2027, 2038, 1900 and 1970.
    2009-05-27-08
    Assets    		 Short discussion on non-profit vs. not-for-profit, assets, asset appreciation, depreciation, shipping costs, and tax liability.
    2009-05-27-09
    "Custodian"    		 "A custodian." vs. "The custodian." regarding intent to acquire MPE source code clarified.
    2009-05-27-10
    Web Site Maintenance    		 Paul Raulerson mentioned as web site support.
    2009-05-27-11
    Hostway    		 Web site billing from Hostway should be zero balance due. Yet being automatically withdrawn from bank. Paul (Edwards) is not getting stuck with the bill.
    2009-05-27-12
    HP Technology Forum    		 Birket will be at this meeting in Las Vegas to promote OpenMPE. The OpenMPE meeting will be on Wednesday June 10th at 10:30AM.
    No similar event in the U.K., but there is one in Europe that floats.
    2009-05-27-13
    Hosting Minutes    		 There is no problem with hosting MP3's of the Minutes on the Empire machine. They will be behind an MPE Account and Group and require MPE passwords. No html access.
    2009-05-27-14
    Next Meeting    		 The next meeting will be Friday, June 12, 2009.
    Minutes Prev 15 May 2009 Next 12 Jun 2009

    Unless otherwise noted, all resolutions were carried by the unanimous vote of all members present.
    Minutes ratified 12 Jun 2009