### N.B. These minutes are DRAFT until this note is removed. ### ### The minutes on Etherpad are provided for your convenience and are ### NOT official. The official copy resides in /afs/sipb/admin/minutes. ### Contributions are welcome! Please fill out your username by ### clicking on the user icon in the top right corner. Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2017-08-28 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by mcyoung. In attendance were Student keyholders: bpchen, dzaefn, emmabat, mcyoung, yczeng, pravinas, dukhovni, slz | andersk Associate keyholders: achernya, foner, kenta, emilycf Members: ahkim, sargentd, ixa, jabari, mcameron, klajdi Guests: '() Administrivia: mcyoung: Welcome to the SIPB meeting! Since there are so many new people here, I'll explain how the meeting works! I'm the chair. The meeting is divided into 4 parts: Administrivia, i.e. finances, Project Reports, Other -- for discussing other things, and then there's Other Other, for discussing unrelated things. Is that all? Let's proceed to administrivia and introductions. [introductions] mcyoung: I'd like to propose an allocation: one thing SIPB likes to do is scare nearby restaurants by showing up without a reservation and buying lots of food. I think it'd be really great to take you guys to get some food -- a standing allocation of about $500 achernya: It doesn't need to be standing, that means recurrent mcyoung: Ok a one-time allocation for paying for prefrosh. I mean freshman. You get what I mean achernya: The 2021s. ikdc: Please restate it ikdc: We pretend to follow Robert's Rules of order or something mcyoung: Let's try this again shall we? I'd like to allocate $500 to pay for 2021s at food mobs. kenta: Amend to first-year students? Cover grad students as well *seconded, white balloted* mcyoung: The allocation passes kenta: I'd like to allocate up to $30 to replace the sound bar beneath mkc's monitor. It's got a broken audio plug dzaefn: It's been broken a long time kenta: According to Amazon it can be replaced for $15 but I'm requesting 30 just in case mcyoung: No objections! Anything else? kenta: Anyone know where the paper cutter went? mcyoung: We've been bamboozled! dzaefn: It's been missing at least a week. kenta: It was here at the middle of the summer. Nobody currently knows, moving on pravinas: (moving trash can) Found it kenta: That's the old busted one pravinas: Sorry. Why do we still have it? mcyoung: For emergencies! ikdc: No we should just get rid of it slz: Please get rid of it mcyoung: Please *decommision* it dzaefn: Is the vice chair supposed to eat it? Project Reports: ikdc: Work on Hyades has continued at a moderate pace over the summer. [explanation of Hyades] Other: alvareza: What's going on with SIPB rush? mcyoung: Midway is Friday ikdc: Since we already have some people here we're doing a good job already! [confirmed that present 2021s here because of CPW] pravinas: If anyone want to be in an experiment involving a vibrating belt, I'm in a UROP you could talk to me foner: There was a similar Media Lab project a while ago you could look at slz: Go 1.9 has been released! You can get a duration based on the monotonic clock not the wall clock. This was accomplished with no API change! mcyoung: What is the most memetastic thing about Go? slz: I wrote a function that can return itself. foner: What about LISP? Other Other: mcyoung: Reg day is sooner than you think! slz: Next Tuesday in fact foner: The eclipse was cool! dzaefn: The flat earthers were hilarious bpchen: I was going to say that mcyoung: There's a bunch of prefrosh -- no, frosh frosh. Our beloved President Reif has converted them all to frosh! bpchen: FYRE deadline is Wednesday, be sure to submit your preferences if you have them slz: The deadline for health insurance waivers is this Thursday actually dzaefn: If you drop out of MIT you won't even have to pay tuition The meeting was adjourned at 19:55. Minutes taken and submitted by emmabat.