Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 02/27/2006 The meeting was called to order at 7:30PM by jbarnold. In attendance were Voting members: tabbott jhawk keithw wdaher arolfe kchen jbarnold mshaw janetryu xsdg | kenta Associate members: asedeno Prospectives: k_lai nelhage jdseale jwalden cporter erlkonig Guests: Treasurer's Report: jhawk: Chairman's Report: jbarnold: There's a secretary election today. We might as well do that first. Tabbott? tabbott: We should ask for nominations. Have people read my email? Basically, we failed to elect a secretary. Katherine (k_lai) is taking minutes, but we need somebody to be the official secretary to be in charge and be a fourth officer as well. janetryu: Do you have to come to every meeting? jbarnold: No, but you'd have to oversee and maintain records, keep track of correspondences, etc. keithw: I nominate janetryu mshaw: Second. janetryu: Accept. kchen: I nominate mshaw. tabbott: Seconds mshaw: Accept. tabbott: I nominate arolfe. wdaher: Second. arolfe: Sure, how can I turn down a position where I don't have to do any work? [Vote for Secretary: janetryu: 2, mshaw: 3, arolfe: 4] jbarnold: janetryu is dropped; we will have a runoff between mshaw and arolfe. [Vote for Secretary: mshaw: 2, arolfe: 6, abstentions: 1; arolfe wins] jbarnold: Now we need to have an election to fill in the at-large EC position that arolfe had had. keithw: The following are nominated: aseering, glasser, golem, janetryu, kenta, mshaw, rayhe, xsdg [Vote: glasser: 1, golem: 2, janetryu: 2 mshaw: 2, rayhe: 2] jbarnold: We will have a runoff between golem, janetryu, mshaw, and rayhe. [Vote: golem: 1, janetryu: 4, mshaw: 1, rayhe: 4] jbarnold: Now we'll have a runoff between janetryu and rayhe. Please, we have an exactly even number of people, so exactly one person should abstain. [Vote: janetryu: 6, rayhe: 4; janetryu wins] jbarnold: Janet, welcome to EC. Somebody blanche her onto sipb-ec now or else we'll forget. Office Report: kenta: What are the status of the CD-R's? jhawk: We seem to have some. kenta: I move to make allocation fo $30 to purchase another spindle of CD-R's. jhawk: Second. arolfe: Objection to white-ballot. arolfe: There's already $100 unspent allocation for office supplies kenta: Withdraw motion. Office Cleaning Report: MIT Computing Report: jbarnold: How has MIT sucked this week? mshaw: Continued problems on web.mit.edu on Friday. Was this related? jhawk: I noticed this too. Theresa said she knew about nothing. Other reports other than from basement of Stata? tabbott: I noticed issues downloading things from Nelson's apt repository. kchen: I observed brief network outages sometime this past week--two 30-second or 1 minute outages. mshaw: As I understand, a lot of the lockers could have been accessed on stuff. Maybe we should make this better known. jhawk: Perhaps something more like web and not like stuff.mit.edu and tildes. Stuffmaster? arolfe: A problem with that is that not all lockers are served from locker it looks like it would come from. Keeping up to date with those changes might be harder than you think. Don't want to be in a situation where you claim to work like web and then doesn't. mshaw: Just want access to whatever locker of software I might be interested on web. Computer Services: cporter: Can somebody fix snork? jbarnold: There aren't many people in this room who are familiar with snork, so I don't know when that will be taken care of. nelhage: I have moved the Debian packages I put together for moira, etc. onto numenor because of web-suckage and added a bunch of other useful packages. (http://numenor.mit.edu/~nelhage/debs/) tabbott: The minutes taker knows how to spell it. keithw: We should have only elven spelling in the minutes! arolfe: Should use stuff.mit.edu to host those [Debian packages]. nelhage: Packages include stuff for running athcluster and athinfo, if anybody wants to run it on their Debian machines. arolfe: stuff stopped serving the csail afs cell; now it only serves the athena, net, dev, and sipb cells. arolfe: I recompiled blanche so that you can blanche lists that start with dashes. jhawk: You should send your patch to moira-dev. arolfe: They're not going to care. asedeno: steve-dallas has now been reinstalled with Debian and seems to be happy. However, I don't have bits on the vmdialup locker, and don't know how to maintain the software. tabbott: Would you be willing if given bits and training? asedeno: Ask me next week. jbarnold: Hardware for linux dialup has been ordered, assuming the purchase order has been transmitted. They will sit in the office until put into the machine room, and will hopefully have them up in a few weeks. We're also leaning towards modified athena rather than hacking something together from Debian. janetryu: Why not regular athena? jbarnold: Because it isn't secure enough. jbarnold: Would like to garbage collect IPs for the new machines. jbarnold: I move to allocate for 2 new IP address for 2 new servers if can't garbage collect 2 from office. jhawk: A motion involving spending should mention price. jbarnold: IP addresses are $20 per month jhawk: We should be able to garbage collect them. jbarnold: Okay, forget that motion. mshaw: Why do IP addresses cost $20 a month? jhawk: That's how IS&T decided to pay for their network. jhawk: I move to change my allocation for toner from about $100 to $400; toner is more expensive than I thought. [Vote: white balloted: spend $400 on toner] keithw: So SIPB had set aside $4000 for Sportcast. Of that, we only have access to $1500, and we've spent about $500. We want to get four new computers to act as Firewire-Ethernet gateways for the baseball season. $900 is not enough for this, so we'd like access to the full $4000 (the other $2500). arolfe: you should check w/treasurer to be sure of how much money you have right now. jhawk: Don't want to provide that information during this meeting. kenta: Are you getting mac minis? keithw: I was thinking more mini-ITX, which are a bit bigger but cheaper. jhawk: It would more helpful if you gave us a list of how many items at how much money instead of just a sum. janetryu: Yeah, what if you buy keychains?? keithw: Well, you can see what we've bought so far. We're not going to buy keychains. I don't know who made the keychain purchase. jbarnold: We are tasking the treasurer to give status at next week's meeting. cporter: Are we virtualizing our old services? jhawk: SIPB server maintainers would vociferously protest. keithw: Maintainers might be willing for some services, but you have to build a reputation of reliability jhawk: What incentives could there be? keithw: I think it's a good avenue, but I don't know if it should be VMWare or Xander or what. Publications Report: jbarnold: We are out of cluster cards. Volunteers? Alex? arolfe: I have a meaning in life. Okay. kenta: There's a bunch of Knoppix CDs there if people need recovery CDs. Orientation Report: tabbott: We need somebody to be in charge of Orientation/CPW. tabbott: Have we requested a booth? jbarnold: Not yet; it's not due yet. Any volunteers? You'll be responsible for a supply of soda. Date? arolfe: CPW is 6th (Thursday) through 9th of April. keithw: Sportcast might be willing to do a demo or something. jbarnold: Sounds good. Should I try to get two tables because Sportcast will want to be there? jhawk: Yes. IAP Report: CokeComm Report: jbarnold: We are out of Coke. It is sad. kenta: kenta and keithw are next to each other on the thing and have very similar eating habits. Other: tabbott: HMMT was last Saturday. My sleep schedule was 6,2,4,13. keithw: I'm borrowing this Nokia 770 and powering it by hand-cranking it. I'm going to be the buffest and most environmentally-conscious member of SIPB. 90 minutes of battery with 7 minutes of cranking. Other Other: Waseem's Play: jbarnold: Gabriel jhawk: Stage direction k_lai: Diane jwalden: Justin \documentclass[12pt]{sides} \usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry} \title{Great Exxxpectations} \author{Waseem Daher} \date{February 27, 2006} \begin{document} \maketitle \stagedir{It is around 5:00 in the evening on a beautiful summer day in the present, but you couldn't tell it, because we find ourselves on a set for a movie, in a windowless room with two video cameras. \chara{Gabriel}, the director, is a tall, slim, 35-year-old with a black beret precariously perched on his head, and is standing off to the side. \chara{Diane}, an attractive and scantily-clad 22-year-old, is lying on a bed in the center of the film's set. Camera operators and assistants are also on stage, but in the background.} \repl{Gabriel \\ \paren{into megaphone}} Quiet on the set! {\em The Great Gasping}, scene 23, take 41. And\ldots action! \stagedir{An assistant shuts the clapper, and moves out of the way. Beethoven's F\"ur Elise begins playing in the background.} \repl{Diane} Oh,\ldots Gatsby\ldots Yes! Oh! You're worth the whole damn bunch of them put together! Yes! \repl{Gabriel} Cut! Cut! Cut! \paren{the music stops} That was {\em terrible}. Absolutely horrendous. F. Scott Fitzgerald would have punched you in the face if he were here right now. I've never seen something so outrageous in my entire care--- \repl{Diane} Aw, go to hell, Gabriel. We've done this scene dozens of times and you never like it. I don't know what to tell ya, this is what you're going to get. \repl{Gabriel} First of all, it's Ga-bri-{\em el}. And second, we're going to do this until we get it right. \repl{Diane \\ \paren{sarcastic}} Whatever you say, Ga-bri-{\em elllle}. \stagedir{The camera crew repositions itself for the next take.} \repl{Gabriel \\ \paren{into megaphone}} Alright, let's do it right this time! All quiet on the set! {\em The Great Gasping}, scene 23, take 42. And\ldots action! \stagedir{The music begins again.} \repl{Diane} Oh, yes! Gatsby! Ohmigod! You're worth, oh yea!, the whole damn bunch\ldots of them, put together!! \repl{Gabriel} Cut! \paren{music stops} I try and I try and I try with you people, but all you give me is crap, crap, crap. \stagedir{\chara{Diane} gets off the bed, puts on a bathrobe, lights up a cigarette, and walks towards \chara{Gabriel}.} \repl{Diane} Look, buddy, I don't know what you're trying to do here, but I'm telling you what: I am not doing that scene again. \repl{Gabriel} {\em Non, non, non!} We must do it until it is perfect! \repl{Diane} That {\em was} perfect. Each of those past 42 times was perfect. Give me a break, it's just porn. \repl{Gabriel} Just porn? \repl{Diane} Yeah, that's what I said. \repl{Gabriel} {\em Just porn?} Excuse me? I did {\em not} spend six years at NYU film school to have my work called ``porn.'' \repl{Diane} Naked women and sex? Sounds like porn to me. \repl{Gabriel \\ \paren{with disdain}} How deliciously typical of you. Is the {\em Venus de Milo} porn? Certainly not! The problem is that you cannot comprehend my bold experiment. \repl{Diane} Is that so? Well, I'm not going to do that scene again, so you've got a bunch of time to explain it to me in detail. \stagedir{Enter \chara{Justin}, a 21-year-old football player at the local university and an avid fan of \chara{Gabriel}'s work.} \repl{Justin} Dude! No way --- are you Gabriel Lerouge? I totally love your work, man! \repl{Gabriel} Finally! Someone who appreciates me! \repl{Justin} The name's Justin. Hey, can you sign this for me? I've been dying to get your autograph. \paren{Looks over at \chara{Diane}} You too, cutie. \repl{Diane \\ \paren{annoyed}} I have a name. \stagedir{\chara{Justin} hands the DVD to \chara{Gabriel}, who signs and returns it.} \repl{Gabriel} Don't be rude, Diane. \paren{To \chara{Justin}} So you like my work, then? \repl{Justin} Totally. {\em Alice in Wonderland} is one of my all-time faves. \repl{Diane \\ \paren{excited}} The cartoon classic? You were a part of that? \repl{Gabriel} Euh\ldots {\em non}. He was referring to my 2003 erotic film version. \stagedir{\chara{Diane} rolls her eyes.} \repl{Gabriel} So what did you think of {\em Gropes of Wrath}? \repl{Justin} Man, that movie was the only reason I passed the English Lit.~final exam senior year. \repl{Gabriel} How about {\em A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Naked Woman}? \repl{Justin} A masterpiece. \repl{Diane} No way. \repl{Gabriel} I take my work quite seriously. {\em Nineteen Eighty-Whore}? \repl{Justin} One of the few books I actually ever read in high school --- I loved the part where Big Brother was {\em actually} watching. Now that's genius if I've ever seen it. \repl{Gabriel} You know, I wanted to film it in black and white in the style of the {\em film noir} to better emphasize Winston's struggle, so to speak, but the studio would unfortunately not allow it. \repl{Justin} Bummer. \repl{Diane \\ \paren{to \chara{Justin}}} Wait\ldots you actually watch this trash? How much of it have you seen? \repl{Justin} Dude, it's not trash. I've seen it all. {\em Catch Her in the Rye}, {\em The Sale of Two Titties}, {\em Roaming Ho and Juliet}\ldots the man is a genius. \paren{To \chara{Gabriel}} What inspired you? \repl{Gabriel} Well, when I was studying {\em le cin\'ema}, I found myself often asking why--- \repl{Diane} This is ridiculous. Gabriel, I don't care what you say, who you are, or what you've made, I'm not doing this scene again. \repl{Gabriel} Diane, {\em ma ch\`erie}! This is not easy for me, either! But we have an obligation to our audience. We must inspire them! \repl{Justin} He's right, you know --- all my friends love this stuff. \repl{Diane} The only ``inspiration'' our audience needs is in their pants. And I think I've done that part just fine. \repl{Gabriel} That's exactly what someone set in the old ways would say. You don't understand that I am a visionary! Like Gutenberg with his printing press, I am trying to spread the great stories of our day in a form that the common man will appreciate! \repl{Justin} Dude\ldots Gutenberg! Right on. \repl{Diane} You think you'll teach people about literature by making porn versions of classic novels? \repl{Justin} Well, it was easier than reading the book\ldots \repl{Gabriel \\ \paren{annoyed}} Art, Diane, not porn. I am an artist, I make art. \repl{Diane} Oh. My. God. You're actually serious. \repl{Gabriel} Yes. Quite. Now you will redo this scene at once. \repl{Diane} Like hell I will. You've already made half of the movie with me --- you {\em need} me, and I'm done for the day. \repl{Justin} I'm down with the sass! Where did you find her? \repl{Gabriel \\ \paren{Ignoring \chara{Justin}}} That is what you think! But I know you won't, because if you leave now, you won't get paid at all. \repl{Diane} Sure, but you won't be able to finish your project. \repl{Gabriel} {\em Peut-\^etre}. Or maybe I will just use another young blonde --- I'm sure Justin has some recommendations. No one will notice, and those that do will know that it symbolizes Nick Carraway's changing views on East and West Egg\ldots \repl{Diane} Uh-huh. Good luck with that. Don't think I'm coming back: there are plenty of opportunities for young, attractive women. \repl{Gabriel} Oh? Like what? \repl{Justin} Wait, wait, wait. Let me guess --- I think I've seen this one before. You could be a stripper, waitress, French maid, babysitter, secretary, schoolteacher, nurse, confused college co-ed looking to experiment, lonely housewife\ldots Ooh, wait, even better! You could be a young college graduate who can't afford to pay the rent for her apartment, when suddenly the plumber arrives, but you get taken to the hospital, where a hot nurse and a pizza boy\ldots \repl{Diane} That's enough. I'll leave you two alone --- you're perfect for each other. I quit. \repl{Gabriel} Please, you cannot leave! I'll double your salary! \repl{Diane} Too bad I'm through with your stupid production. And seriously, you're not fooling anyone with that accent. We all know you're from Kansas. \stagedir{\chara{Diane} walks off the film set and exits.} \repl{Gabriel} Diane. Don't make me beg. Please, I need you! \paren{Yells} Diane!! \repl{Justin} Sorry, man, she's gone. \repl{Gabriel} My life's work, ruined! \paren{Pauses} Unless\ldots could you wear a wig? \stagedir{The End.} \end{document} The meeting was adjourned at 8:20PM. Minutes taken and submitted by k_lai.