Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2014-12-15


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

In attendance were
        Voting members: bbaren, btidor, dove, vasilvv,

        Associate members: achernya, kaduk, glasgall, madars, sparrow_, 
                tthoma24 

        Prospectives: bennoui, leee, slz

Administrivia
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        glasgall: what is the status of the sipb@mit.edu RT queue thing?

        tthoma24: a request was sent to tooltime@mit.edu on Friday, we’re 
                waiting to hear back.  There may be more to hash out than 
                previously thought.  Once we get the queue it’d be nice to cut 
                over.  

        kaduk: The sign on the door was hanging somewhat loosely when I opened 
                the office today, so I re-taped it, and it appears to be 
                somewhat more securely attached.  

        tthoma24: zsr has been randomly rebooting, so keep an eye on it.  

Project Updates
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        glasgall: scripts would like to apologize for the performance we’ve 
                been offering the community the past few weeks.  we’ve been 
                having an issue with afs, and other afs folks are working on 
                this.  we hope to have a solution soon, and we hate this as 
                much as you do.  

        vasilvv: any other project reports? 

        tthoma24: MacAthena!  I made Athena work for Mac! Yay! Or at least, 
                I’m actively working on this right now.  

        bennoui: I am the developer support engineer for IS&T, I’m working on 
                a portal for developers, it’s coming along pretty well.  it 
                should be running by January, along with a Q&A platform we’re 
                putting out for developers.  If you have any feedback, get in 
                touch somehow.  

        dove: csvoss - Chelsea Voss - is the IAP coordinatior.  if you’re 
                interested in teaching an IAP class, get in touch with her.  
                if you’ve taught in the past, please send her email about 
                you’d like to teach again.  December something - soon - is the 
                deadline for expressing interest in the class. 

        sparrow_: Dec 20th is the deadline. 

        kaduk: there’s a dictionary called webster on Chiron, I am planning to 
                move webster off of chiron, I have gotten as far as indexing 
                the thing and encountered errors that ubuntu cannot actually 
                display. If you are interested in helping, let me know.  

        tthoma24: csw has been updated to 10.10.  

        bennoui: Bianca Ortberg is looking for student volunteers to teach CS 
                classes the week of January 17th.

        achernya: we are playing whackamole with AFS. 

        csvoss: IAP is Very Soon.  it is so, so soon! you should sign up to 
                teach a class.  I sent email to sibp-office, it’s going to 
                happen, consider teaching something.  

Other
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        csvoss: is there budget for IAP?  could I actually caffeinate the 
                caffeinated courses? 

        vasilvv: no, but there could be. 

        slz: as of today, all of Walter Lewin’s videos are on youtube because 
                of me. 

Other Other
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        bbaren: finals began this week. 

        glasgall: IAP is sooner than you think! it is really soon. 

        csvoss: I haven’t introduced myself yet.  I’m Chelsea, my Kerberos is 
                csvoss. 

        sparrow_: Hanukkah and Christmas are even sooner than IAP.  

meeting adjourned at 19:45.

        Minutes taken and submitted by sparrow_.