Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 09/4/2006


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

In attendance were 
	Voting members: arolfe tabbott jbarnold xsdg kchen jhawk
	Associate members: jmorzins jemorris
	Prospectives: tilia austein mpacula geofft | scot spang amalagon
	Guests: 

Treasurer's Report:
	jhawk: '()

	jhawk: I still have $1700 of SIPB's money that I'd like to spend
		in September.

Chairman's Report:
	jbarnold: I'm back.  We have new people, so we should do
		introductions.  We're having tours this Wednesday and
		the Hackathon this Saturday.
	[we do introductions]

MIT Computing Report:
	tabbott: There was a mail quota increase from 500MB to 1GB
		sometime this past week.	

SIPB Projects Report:
	jbarnold: scripts new hardware was ordered last week and it
		arrived.  The only part that wasn't from Newegg was DOA
		(it was from GovConnection because of MIT purchasing
		policy).  The replacement will hopefully be here soon. 
	jbarnold: We have a new scripts wiki at scripts.mit.edu/wiki.
		It links to an issue tracker.  We'll soon have source
		code for people to view.

	austein: Ask SIPB published every day last week.  We'll have one
		next week on "How to Use the Printers".

	xsdg: I compiled The Gimp for Sun.  It's out of date, so I'll
		build the new one soon.

Office Report:
	jmorzins: It's still here.
	tabbott: It hasn't been flooded this summer.

Office Cleaning Report:

Publications Report:
	jbarnold: There are new Athena Pocket Guides and clustercards
		both in the back and in the rack in the front.

CokeComm Report:
	tabbott: We're out of coke and sprite as a result of the midway.
	jbarnold: If you buy some at Midway, Erin will reimburse you
		later.  She'll restock next weekend.

Orientation Report:
	jbarnold: There are tours this Wednesday at 7pm in Lobby 7.
		Tours last 3 hours.  At 10, jis will tell stories in
		4-231.  We're visiting w91, w92, n42, CSAIL, and the
		Media Lab.
	jbarnold: On Saturday, the Hackathon starts at 2 and goes until
		we get tired.  
	jbarnold: We distributed 142 cans of soda at the midway.

	jbarnold: At the end of the meeting, the people who are new
		should stick around and we'll do a longer SIPB
		introduction.

IAP Report:
	jbarnold: We need an IAP sucker.  We run these courses during
		IAP and we need someone to coordinate them.

Other:
	xsdg: Python is painful.  
	xsdg: Reuse is good.

Other Other:
	?: Jeff's favorite color is green.
	


The meeting was adjourned at 19:41.


	Minutes taken and submitted by arolfe.