Chuck wrote:

> Ok, it has been a week since the voting results were to be
> announced at the
> Annual Membership Meeting and I have seen nothing on the web
> site or in this group about the meeting or election results.
>
> Is anyone who attended willing to post information on what
> happened for those of us who could not attend?

Here are my notes. If anyone heard differently, please reply!

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1) which version(s) of MPE will be available for the emulator
companies to emulate? Ken N. wants to be able to run MPE 6.0 due
to 7.x not containing some s/w that he relies on (some comm. s/w?) and
has 5 digit PINs which he thinks will break some of his code.

2) there was some discussion around the business case for the
emulator being weak, but not due to HP's proposed license. Simply
that many homesteaders may choose to just use what they have
until it stops working, then look for alternatives -- they see the
emulator as an insurance policy.

3) related to 2) there was some discussion concerning the timing
of an emulator becoming available. Again, it did not seem to me
that HP's "early 2004" timeframe is the issue, but rather, how
long it will take for the emulator vendors to get a product out.
It was again mentioned that SRI has begun, but there was some
talk about wanting Allegro to be able to start and their stated
concern about HP's commitment to the proposed license. Jon B also
stated that SRI is not feeling urgency since, from their experience,
emulator customers are late to adopt.

4) there was discussion about the estimated cost of an emulator
($1M from Allegro) and how to raise money for an OpenMPE community
project.

5) there was talk around the idea of an OpenMPE sponsored
virtual MPE lab. I felt most people view this as pretty far
away, so there was less discussion. Also, HP holds a lot of
the cards on this topic (at least MPE s/w support) and has
not really addressed it publicly.

6) surprisingly, only 3 attendees (out of ~25) were OpenMPE
members, and ~10? subscribe to the OpenMPE email list. Of the
3 official members only 1 (or 2?) voted in the last ballot. At
least a few attendees did not know the OpenMPE Web site URL and
did not know how to subscribe to the list.

7) the current Board members who were up for re-election were
all nominated to server a second term (of 2 years, I think).


 Jeff Vance, vCSY