Hello Friends:

>Is anyone who attended willing to post information on what happened for
>those of us who could not attend?

 From a report in the April issue of the 3000 NewsWire (go to the Web
site below and sign up for a free trial sub to read the full story):

        The OpenMPE organization announced the results of its board
election at the Valley Forge meeting, returning all of its incumbents
to new two-year seats. Directors Backus, Birket Foster, Ted Ashton
and Mark Klein remain on the board.
        Out of 384 mailing list members subscribed to the OpenMPE.org
list, only 124 registered to vote in the election, and a total of 39
ballots decided the four board seats. Membership in OpenMPE is free,
but customers and managers must fill out a one-page survey to gain
the right to vote.
        More interesting than the election results were survey
questions about demand for an emulator, and the number of production
systems served by the 39 voters. Details showed that one site in the
OpenMPE membership has 102 HP 3000s and more than 20,000 users; the
average number of systems used was closer to three for the rest of
the membership that cast votes.
        OpenMPE also asked voters to estimate how many copies of an
emulator they want for the future, and came up with 258 orders from a
total of 26 voting members. About one-third of the voters didn't want
any emulators; membership in the group doesn't require ownership of
an HP 3000, and both HP and consultants made up some of the voting
members.


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Ron Seybold, Editor In Chief
The 3000 NewsWire
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