Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2014-11-10


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

In attendance were
        Voting members: asuhl, dove, belzner, dzaefn, vasilvv,, 

        Associate members: ksunter, jhawk, achernya, 

        Prospectives: madars, tthoma24, sparrow_, 

        Guests: lilians, 

Administrivia
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ksunter: I would like to nominate sparrow_, tthoma24, and madars for membership based on their work on cluedumps. 

vasilvv: do I hear a second?

dove: I second. 

vasilvv: and do you accept these nominations?

madards: I accept

teddy: I guess. 

sparrow_: yes?

vasilvv: does anyone here want to split the motion into three parts? [quiet]

vasilvv: all full members in favor of nomination please raise your hands

[all four present raise hands - asuhl arrived after this]

vasilvv: any oppositions?  

vasilv: candidates please talk to me after this so we can schedule elections.

dove: I was expecting more people present today.

tthoma24: in light of some interactions I’ve seen on sipb@ recently, it might be a good idea for us to make sibp@mit.edu an RT queue. 

vasilvv: this has been raised before, please bring it up on sipb-office@mit.edu 

tthoma24: I will send mail to that list re: making sipb@ an RT queue.

Project Updates
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tthoma24: cluedump, is still happening this week?

asuhl: yes, it is happening? at a place and time: 

sparrow_: 4-321 @ 7pm on wednesday. 

achernya: how are you keysigning?  with what protocol?

asuhl: It’s not a keysigning party, it’s a cluedump on how to use keys. There will be a keysigning party later.  

vasilvv: anything else for project reports? 

achernya: So this weekend, I found myself annoyed at the state of dynamic DNS in the world, and I found myself further annoyed that the SIPB DNS service doesn’t offer this feature, so I’m starting an investigation to see if we can start a new SIPB project with much larger scope than the original SIPB DNS to leverage MIT’s current Akamai contract to set up a cloud-scale DNS. If this is something that you’re interested in, please talk to me so we can form a team and create a design doc.  Then, when we contact IS&T and say “hey this is a thing we want to build” they know what we’re trying to do. 

jhawk: so Alex, how does that relate to dynamic DNS?

achernya: I want to offer dynamic DNS as one of the services.  

jhawk: Okay, so it’s sort of a project. 

Other
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tthoma24: macGPG is now going to cost a small fee to download starting with the 10.10 version of its release.  The fee will include updates, and be charged per-update. 

asuhl: The source code is still open, you can compile it yourself. 

tthoma24: they discourage you from doing that, obviously. 

asuhl: To clarify, this is just for the plugin for Apple Mail.  The rest of the tool is still free as in freedom and also as in beer.

tthoma24: but they want a small donation if you’re going to use the applemail version.

Other Other
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sparrow_: There are two days off for the federal holiday for MIT students: today and tomorrow.  

meeting adjourned at 7:39.

        Minutes taken and submitted by sparrow_.