Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2011-06-20


The meeting was called to order at 19:30:00 by dwilson.

In attendance were
        Voting members: dwilson lizdenys kaduk cesium geofft dhanus
                phurst

        Associate members: asedeno quentin jhawk

        Prospectives: maria89 abelay

        Guests: Veronica Hanus

Administrivia:
        dwilson: Welcome to the SIPB meeting.

SIPB Project Updates
        kaduk: openafs version 1.6.0pre6 was committed to the FreeBSD
                ports.
        geofft: Also to scripts, thanks to kaduk.

        lizdenys: We're starting a new project: collaborative text
                editing mixed with Google Wave minus all the parts we
                didn't want of Wave. We also want it to work. It's
                called "Waverly" for "WAVE RLY?" and if you want to
                discuss it or get involved in it get on
                waverly@mit.edu.

        geofft: Debathena natty is closer to usable. openafs will be
                using dkms so you don't have to wait for us to build
                modules, but you do have to build modules.

        geofft: There's some discussion about starting a project to do
                something interesting with Yubikeys, a hackable
                one-time password/hardware token device. Fedora uses
                this for authentication, and their folks are trying to
                get it in the KDC. Quentin is using one for Google?
        quentin: Everyone who works for Google is using them.
        geofft: People want to use them in different places or in
                place of the RSA tokens. We should get a Yubikey
                server up for SIPB. If you are interested, talk to me
                or someone else on the yubikey@mit.edu list to get
                added to the list. We may later think about getting a
                number of Yubikeys for SIPB members to use maintaining
                services or others to buy.
        quentin: They're like 5 dollars.
        dwilson: We're not allocating for it now, though right?
        geofft: Right. Also for a dollar more, we can get grumpy
                fuzzball Yubikeys.

Other:
        dwilson: A hackathon by several local startups called Hack
                Reduce will be happening soon. Built around working
                with large data sets with hadoop and similar
                things. This Saturday at Microsoft NERD. SIPB is not
                formally involved, but we have been contacted by some
                of the startups to pass on this information. If
                interested, go to hackreduce.org.

        quentin: jdreed is awesome: he replaced a half-broken cluster
                machine at 9:30 pm after hearing it was broken at 7:30
                on a Sunday.

        geofft: SIPB reading group seems to have started up again. Add
                yourself to sipb-reading-group@mit.edu since we won't
                be cc'ing sipb-office@mit.edu anymore.

        kaduk: I bought more hand lotion but didn't bring it today.

Other Other:
        lizdenys: geofft and I are writing a mass.
        dwilson: Mass of what?
        geofft: Cowbell dubstep.
        lizdenys: That's a different mass.

        jhawk: The CF to USB reader for our oscilloscope seems to have gone
                missing. It's goofy looking with a hemisphere.
        dwilson: I have not seen it.
        jhawk: <feral snarl>
        quentin: We may have reduced the number that we have at some
                office cleaning?

        Veronica Hanus: Someone should prospectivize me.
        dwilson: We can do this after the meeting.
        lizdenys: Deborah, you should!
        dhanus: I think it would be better if someone else did.

The meeting was adjourned at 19:38.


        Minutes taken and submitted by lizdenys.