Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2008-02-04


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

In attendance were 
	Voting members: andersk ecprice geofft jwalden kaduk nelhage
		price quentin
	Associate members: asedeno
	Prospectives: broder haoqili incematt
	Guests: 

Officer Reports:
	nelhage: I would like to nominate broder for SIPB membership.
		He’s been working on MacAthena, been around the
		office, been helpful to members and users.
	<8-0-0, motion passes>
	nelhage: We’ll probably do the election in two weeks.

	nelhage: SIPB officer elections next week, for officers and EC
		members.  If you wish to remove yourself from the
		eligible list and won’t be at the meeting, email the
		chairman.  You can send in absentee ballots for EC
		members at large.

	nelhage: I think we still have a lot of money.  We should
		spend some of it.

MIT Computing Report:
	geofft: The registration server kept dying and getting kicked
		periodically.

	kaduk: Zephyr logs were rotated today for the beginning of the
		semester.

	quentin: Printer logs were rotated.  I don’t know what that
		means.

SIPB Projects Report:
	broder: MacAthena had its “launch” last Wednesday to great
		fanfare and an attendance of five people.  I’m
		starting to talk to locker maintainers.
	broder: Currently we’re using a source distribution, and I’m
		interested in getting a build server.  Move to
		allocate $875 for a Mac Mini and an external hard
		drive to build onto.
	asedeno: How do you rackmount a Mac Mini?
	broder: I’m told there’s room next to debuild.
	<8-0-0, motion passes>

	nelhage: arolfe has some reports from the crufy machine room
		services department.  The new AFS servers have
		arrived.  rosebud has been upgraded to the new
		machine.  Assuming it doesn’t fall over, arolfe will
		upgrade ronald-ann tonight.
	nelhage: There was a news outage from late Saturday until this
		morning; it seems one of the external SCSI connections
		came loose.

	quentin: scripts deployed its pagtokens patch this weekend.
		On scripts you can get a new PAG, kinit and aklog with
		your own keytab, and do whatever you want with those
		tokens.
	geofft: You are encouraged not to put your own tokens on
		scripts, but we will request a daemon principal for
		you if you have a vhost.

	quentin: We finally started setting up syn.mit.edu, the
		monitoring server.  Currently it’s monitoring scripts,
		linerva, and sipb-xen.  Email me if you have a service
		that should be monitored.

Office Report:
	broder: It’s still here.

	nelhage: The forest of cables in laptop land is really quite
		impressive, but they seem to be all in use.
	geofft: jhawk says there’s a thing you can get that lets you
		string power cables from the ceiling safely.

	nelhage: I finally ordered hard copies of Intel Architecture
		processor documentation.  I ordered eight copies of
		the five-volume set.  I told them I was from MIT and
		it seemed to be okay.

Education Report:
	quentin: IAP is sooner than you think.
	nelhage: Last IAP is over, we ran a bunch of classes, and they
		seemed to be quite successful.  price managed to
		attract the entire Haskell community from the greater
		Cambridge area to his talk.

Other:
	nelhage: You should all vote tomorrow.  I hear we’re electing
		something.
	jwalden: You get to choose who you hate the most and will not
		vote for.

Other Other:
	quentin: Barack Obama is in Boston tonight.
	jwalden: McCain was in Boston or will be within the
		yesterday/today/tomorrow time span.

	jwalden: The popular media claims that they added AAAA records
		to the root servers.

	geofft: Half the room is going to be in 6.033.

	quentin: Good luck in classes.

Discussion Report:

The meeting was adjourned at 19:43.


	Minutes taken and submitted by andersk.