The new Focus Group has been defined, but we would like to have
a few additional participants.  If you would be interested in taking
part, but have not responded, please send me an email and you will be
added to the list.

Thanx,
    Jon Backus



-----Original Message-----
From: OpenMPE Support Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Jonathan M. Backus
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 10:56 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [OPENMPE] Focus Group


        Mike Paivinen (HP) has asked us to start up the Focus Group
discussions again.  The goal is to have a group of roughly 10 - 15
OpenMPE end users that would be willing to meeting for a small series (2
or 3) conference calls.  There would also be a private non-archived
listserv used for scheduling of the conference calls and follow-up
discussion.  To better insure success Mike and I have agreed that he
will take a more active direct roll in scheduling the conference calls,
but OpenMPE will be very involved in the discussion.

        If you would be interested in being part of the Focus Group,
please reply to me directly and I will get you setup.  If you can't do
it right now, but would be interested, stay tuned.  As time goes on and
people are not able to stay in the Focus Group (for whatever reason) we
may be asking for new volunteers to help hold the numbers within the
desired range.

Thanx,
    Jonathan (Jon) M. Backus, MPE-CSM ~ Chairman
    OpenMPE ~ 15 Catawba Place ~ Hagerstown, MD ~ 21742-6515
    Email: [log in to unmask] ~ Web: www.OpenMPE.org
    AIM: JMBackus ~ Yahoo: techgroupjon ~ MSN: [log in to unmask]
    Vmail: 301.988.0614 ~ Fmail: 301.714.1854