--- "Brust, Jim" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Like Ray, I would be willing to help out monetarily, but not if > we
are talking about thousands or even several hundred. I have
> worked on HP3000 since the days of the Series III and MPE
> Bruno.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Shahan, Ray
> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 8:35 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] openmpe press release
>
> Donna (hey, I remembered to not capitalize the D!),
really? :-)
> is there any idea of a number that OpenMPE has for membership
> dues? The reason I ask is because there are many like me (or
> is it I) whose savvy on MPE is as a user (applications
> developer), so my contribution would likely never be
> more than monetary. That said, I'm also of limited means, so
> there's a very real concern here that the amount of monetary
> support OpenMPE would require may be more than we can all
> afford (but I sure hope not!).
i want to start by pointing everyone to birket's presentation on
openmpe's website:
<http://www.openmpe.org/2005%20Annual%20Meeting%20at%20HP.pdf>
once you've finished reading it like a love letter (right, alfredo?
:-), go to page 27.
now, before y'all faint -- this is a *proposal* for *corporate*
membership -- something/someone with deeper pockets than you and me!
for the rest of us....i'll now direct you to:
<http://www.openmpe.org/Membership.htm>
see? zero cost! free...free is good :-) (you are a member, right?)
however, free isn't perfect. i think everyone has some idea of what it
will take to run all those racks of equipment required just to build
mpe. there are facility expenses, heating, cooling and so on. mpe
isn't a free ride today and it isn't going to be tomorrow either.
openmpe will take any amount of money you're willing to send.
$1....$5....$20...whatever. (btw, openmpe is not a charitable
organization...so the money you are (hint hint :-) sending won't be a
donation (from a tax perspective)).
if you'd like to help, please use the following address:
OpenMPE, Inc.
C/O Albright Crumbacker et all
1110 Professional Ct, Suite 300
Hagerstown MD 21740
- d
Donna Garverick, HP-CSA Sr. System Programmer
dgarverick -at- longs -dot- com
925-210-6631 Longs Drug Stores
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Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are.
"Ulysses", A. Tennyson
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