I would like to throw my hat into the ring.  I am a consultant/utility
vendor.  Could you restate what the duties of a board member are?  This is
more for others that might be interested.

Ron Horner
Horner Consulting
www.hornerconsulting.com


-----Original Message-----
From: OpenMPE Support Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
Jonathan M. Backus
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 11:15 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Open Board positions

John,

        According to the OpenMPE "bylaws", Article IV, Section 2 -

"The composition of the initial Board of Directors shall be two (2)
individuals who are End-Users of the MPE/IX Operating System, two (2)
individuals who are consultants with respect to the MPE/IX Operating System,
two (2) individuals who are applications vendors with respect to the MPE/IX
Operating System, two (2) individuals who are utility vendors with respect
to the MPE/IX Operating System and one (1) representative of
Hewlett-Packard.  Thereafter, the composition shall be one-third (1/3) of
the number of Directors who are either end-users of or consultants with
respect to the MPE/iX Operating System, one-third (1/3) of the number of
Directors who are vendors with respect to the MPE/iX Operating System and
the remainder unrestricted"

        The remaining Board members are:

Ted Ashton (unrestricted)*
Jon Backus (End-User and Consultant)*
Mark Klein (Consultant)*
Ken Sletten (End-User)
Jeff Vance (HP)
Birket Foster (Vendor)*
Christian Lheureux (Vendor)

        * These seats are up for election this year.

Thanx,
        Jon


-----Original Message-----
From: OpenMPE Support Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
John Burke
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 12:02 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [OPENMPE] Open Board positions


Jon writes:
>
>         As many of you already know, we have two open board
> positions since John
> Marrah and Chris Miller resigned last fall.  It is up to the
> discretion of
> the remaining board members to select replacements for these
> two open seats.
> However, since this is a community control organization we
> would like to
> have some discussion and feedback about who you might like to
> see in these
> two open seats.
>
>         So, can we have some suggestions from the community
> and reason why you feel
> these people might make good board members?  After about a
> week or two of
> discussion we will take the suggestions under advisement and contact
> potential candidates to see if they would be willing to take
> on this role.
> Depending on the timing of the selection, there may be
> references in future
> meeting minutes, but the official announcement will be at the
> Annual OpenMPE
> Membership meeting that will be held at the East Coast
> Solution Symposium in
> March (and then reflected in a session at the West Coast Solution
> Symposium).
>

As I recall, when the original Board was created there was an effort to have
a number of constituencies represented. Is this still desired by the
remaining Board members? In which case, perhaps you could enlighten us on
the remaining Board members and their "constituencies" and the
"constituencies" of the resigned Board members?

John Burke