Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!uhnix1!soma!masscomp
From: masscomp@soma.bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Barber, Moderator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.masscomp
Subject: Summary of Masscomp Users' Society Annual Meeting part 1
Message-ID: <3416@soma.bcm.tmc.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 88 05:47:09 GMT
Organization: Masscomp Users' Society
Lines: 50
Approved: masscomp@soma.bcm.tmc.edu

This is the first of many installments summarizing what happened at
the 1988 Annual MUS meeting held in Danvers, MA from Tuesday,
April 19th until Thursday, April 21st.

Initially, I will summarize those things I personnally took notes on.
Any other persons who want to submit summaries, please do so.

In this summary, I will go over the MUS business that took place at the
meeting.

1. Elections: We held elections for Vice-President and Treasurer as
specified by our by-laws. We also held elections for President since I
chose to resign due to lack of time to serve as President. We relected
Tom O'Bryan (from U.S.G.S) to continue as Treasurer and Jim White (from
the University of Tennessee Space Institute) to continue as Vice-President.
David Busath of Brown University was selected to replace me as President.
Dale Chayes contines as Secretary. Next year, the regular election will be
for President and Secretary as specified in the By-Laws.

2. By-Laws: The by-laws changes proposed by the executive committee were
approved by the membership in attendance. They will take effect with the
printing of the new by-laws in the next issue of MUSings. These changes
have been summarized in MUSings. If you are unaware of the nature of the
changes, contact me and I will send you a copy of the articles altered.

3. Membership Directory: We will publish a membership directory this
next year. If you are a MUS member, you will receive a information
update form. On this form you will be able to tell us if you want your
information published in the directory. We must hear from you to publish
your information. This will likely occur sometime before the winter.

4. Communications: We will make a major effort to get more people able
to use UUCP and electronic mail next year. This should improve the
usage of comp.sys.masscomp in addition to providing a better conduit
from the membership to the executive committee.

Additional comments about the conference in general:
 
There were over 110 people at the meeting. This makes it the largest
national meeting MUS has had thus far. Initial feed back is that things
went well. If you have a opinion you'd like to share, please drop us
a line (electronically or otherwise).


This is the end of summary 1. If you were there and you disagree with
my statements here, please drop me a line.

Stan Barber, Immediate Past President
Masscomp Users' Society
Moderator of comp.sys.masscomp