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Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2014-09-01


The meeting was called to order by dove at 19:30 (EDT).

In attendance were
        Voting members: dwilson dove vasilvv codetaku dvorak42 | cereslee

        Associate members: achernya bbaren glasgall jhawk quentin

        Prospectives: madars dmz sinback tthoma24 csvoss dzaefn lisayz

Administrivia
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   vasilvv:  I move to allocate $140 in order to replace the failed hard drive
             for mkc.
    bbaren:  I question whether mkc needs 2 TiB of hard drive; can we have an SSD,
             since we no longer use it to run all versions of Debathena ever?
  achernya:  It would be $251 for Samsung 840 EVO 500 GB.
   vasilvv:  I accept the friendly amendment
      [ white ballot, allocation passes ]
  
    dzaefn:  I once again move to allocate $1250 dollars for SIPB reunion.
      dove:  I was not at previous meeting, why "again"?
    dzaefn:  It was tabled because there were not enough members present at that
             meeting.
      [ here goes a lengthy discussion about the date of reunion started by
        jhawk, which does not come to any particular conclusion ]
   quentin:  Can you tell us what was those $1250 are for specifically?
    dzaefn:  The number is based on the previous reunion numbers; $900 are for food,
             remaining is for decorations and other miscellania.
   quentin:  Second and white ballot.
  dvorak42:  I'm against white ballot, we need to vote.
      [ 11-0-2, motion passes ]
      [ the acting secretary notes that the vote tally was counted and recorded
        despite his objection that given the lack of objections, the actual
        numbers are moot ]
  
    bbaren:  I move to allocate $100 for two SanDisk SD cards, since the two ones
             we have for RPis are missing.
   vasilvv:  I believe those can be considered to be an office supply.

Project Updates
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  glasgall:  Scripts Team is proud to announce that we are now running Fedora 20,
             and is no longer running an unsupported OS.
  achernya:  We are also proud to announce that we managed to provide our own
             security support during that time, and we don't want to have to do
             that ever again.
  achernya:  We also are proud to announce the first working logview in 10 years.
  glasgall:  Also, Scripts is now powered by IS&T cloud hardware.
  glasgall:  As I already mentioned during the previous meeting, if you are
             running a Django app on Scripts, it *is* broken; you need to fix it.
  
   sinback:  On Oct 18, there's going to be a SIPB-oriented "Science on Saturdays"
             event in Kresge, for grade school kids; it will involve 60 minutes
             of general discussion of how basic things like logic gates work,
             followed by 30-minute special discussion groups.  If you are
             interested in participating, add yourself to sipb-k12@mit.edu
             mailing list.  There will be a lot of kids, so you should be
             comfortable with public speaking.
  
     jhawk:  Mail from Tod Rider on Wed indicated that we need to make a demo
             a week prior, so I wanted to make sure that we are up-to-date with
             that.

Other
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Other Other
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   dwilson:  There's a potential class of interest: Ron Rivest and Charles Stewart
             are teaching class on election and voting technology.
     jhawk:  It's 6.S897/17.S952.
  
    bbaren:  I'm a TA for 6.004 this term;  you should all encourage all your
             undergrade friends to take that class.  Or not, the class already
             has a lot of people registered for it.
  
    dzaefn:  Class of 2018 is here.
  
   dwilson:  Mary's will be closed Sep 16 to Sep 23 for remodelling.
  
    bbaren:  I met a very adorable frosh recently, who wanted to know at what time
             does Athena cluster close;  they were very surprised to learn the answer.
  glasgall:  You did tell them we discourage sleeping in there, right?
  
      dove:  It's last meeting of summer; there will be a membership election for
             asuhl next week, probably.
  
  achernya:  For SIPB World Domination Report, I am now a Debian Developer; also,
             andersk and kaduk are now Debian Maintainers.

meeting adjourned at 19:54 (EDT)

        Minutes taken and submitted by vasilvv.