Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 07/3/2006


The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by tabbott.

In attendance were 
	Voting members: arolfe tabbott jhawk 
	Associate members: jemorris astronut asedeno ocschwar
	Prospectives: mathmike danjared andersk
	Guests: 

Treasurer's Report:
	jhawk: On Friday, we realized that the Insurance Office had
		reimbursed us for the books purchased to replace those
		damaged in the flood.  Alex and I had thought this had
		already been done, so we had less than 1 day to spen
		$1700.  After zephyr and email discussion, I went and
		bought RAM for linerva and some CDRs.  I move to approve
		that expenditure.
	[mathmike seconds]
	jhawk: SAP shows that the money has been correctly transfered to
		FY07 for the reimbursement for the purchase.
	[MPWB: jhawk allocation $1700 for memory and CDRs]

	jhawk: I regret to report that we ended up with $1.75
		unexpended.  I'd hoped we'd end up on the other side of
		that.
	jhawk: The FY07 budget numbers appeared today.  We have $32,600 rather
		than $34,000 last year.  For reference, we've been at
		$34k since FY04 when we had $38k.

Chairman's Report:

MIT Computing Report:

SIPB Projects Report:
	mathmike: scripts.mit.edu/mathmike/sipb has a list of stuff in
		the SIPB office.  It's incomplete because I don't know
		everything here.  It's in wiki form, so people should
		add things.

	danjared: The new limekiller is in the server room and should be
		up soon.
	tabbott: What's going to happen to the old one?
	danjared: It will go away when the new one is up.

	danjared: I've yet to hear back from anyone at CSAIL about
		tours.
	tabbott: Continue bugging him.  How about W92?
	danjared: Jeff said he will.
	tabbott: Ops is moving most of its machines from w92 to some
		other location, so the Network Group is giving the w92
		tour this year.

	jemorris: How did the Hackathon go?
	tabbott: We had 6 or 7 people there for most of the day.  It
		went until about 10pm, though 4 of us were there until
		around 3AM.  Yoyo wrote a program to let us re-enable
		log viewing on scripts.mit.edu.  We now have
		general-dink running some version of Xen.  jtu wrote
		an extensive draft version of iSuck, the guide to IAP
		sucking.

	arolfe: I fixed stuff.mit.edu's dependence on the sipb cell for
		serving athena cell content.
	tabbott: When should we have another Hackathon?
	arolfe: Second week of term.
	tabbott: That'd be a good way to help prospectives start on
		projects.  How often should we have them during the
		summer?  Every month?  Every two weeks?		
	[people suggest every 3-4 weeks]

	tabbott: The Linerva packages are approaching a useful state
		where they can be installed and uninstalled.  They
		should be available in a few weeks so that people can
		have Athena programs on their debian machines.

Office Report:
	tabbott: There's some food leftover from the Hackathon.  Eat it.

	jhawk: The USB/SATA/IDE all in one frob arrived.  

Office Cleaning Report:
	danjared: It's cleaner.
	tabbott: Many areas are clean, except for the area that has the
		cleaning supplies.  We had an office cleaning before the
		Hackathon yesterday.
	tabbott: Do people think it would be useful to have a regular
		office cleaning?
	jhawk: There's this fish...
	tabbott: But it's not well calibrated for the summer.  
	jemorris: If the cleaning is at a regular time, a lot of people
		just won't come then.

Publications Report:
	tabbott: Omri, have you asked for more copies of iAFS?
	ocschwar: No.
	tabbott: Why don't you send email *now*.
	tabbott: We should probably restock iLaTeX?
	[Omri goes looking]
	ocschwar: We have no more.
	tabbott: You can get that too.

CokeComm Report:

Orientation Report:
	tabbott: I still need to submit the Midway booth request, mainly
		because I don't know where we want to be.  Suggestions?
	jhawk: I don't think it matters much.  We're usually against the
		back wall.

	tabbott: I mentioned cluedumps last week.  I'm looking for
		volunteers to speak on specific topics.  Let me know if
		you're interested.

IAP Report:
	tabbott: Adam Seering has volunteered to create an IAP
		scheduling system.  He's also working on such a system
		for ESP, so it may not be tailored to SIPB's needs.
	jhawk: What's the point?
	tabbott: The IAP sucker spends a fair amount of time figuring
		out how to schedule the classes.  It's easier if people
		can schedule their own to avoid conflicts.  An automated
		system would make it easier to submit events to the
		guide.  

	tabbott: If anyone's interested in being the IAP sucker, we now
		have documentation on the job. 

Other:
	asedeno: Last night, I got my mail server to relay through
		outgoing-auth with GSSAPI and its keytab. 
	mathmike: Would this be useful for linerva?
	asedeno: It would be less useful because it's not authenticated
		as the user.
	tabbott: It seems that the spam scoring has changed such that
		sending authenticated vs unauthenticated mail no longer
		matters to the score.
	jhawk: My understanding is that there is a radical difference in
		spam score based on whether the mail is authenticated.  
	[confusion about how MIT spam scoring works]

	danjared: jtu and golem are on a plane to Minnesota.  There's no
		wireless there.

Other Other:
	jhawk: Last week the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hamdin in
		Hamdin vs Rumsfeld.
	jhawk: On Friday, the card office expired more than 3000 IDs.

	ocschwar: FreeDOS is about to go into 1.0.

The meeting was adjourned at 20:01.


	Minutes taken and submitted by arolfe.