Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2022-11-07


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

In attendance were

        Student keyholders: cjq, jmvidal, mitimmy

        Associate keyholders: agrebe, amigdal, markchil

        Members: aayushg, almonds, alwinfy, califyn, guoj1112, kbrought, vivekab, xy, yourym

        Guests: '()

Administrivia:

        cjq: propose an allocation of $150 for a hackathon next friday? [talks]
        
        alwinfy: doesn't sound like much of a hackathon
        
        cjq: no, it's just an excuse to hang out in the office
        
        [passes with white ballot]

Project Reports:

        jmvidal: hwops continues. we are continuing to inventory on the servers that we have, a few more to go. we're starting the uplink server this wednesday at 5pm, work party's on the calendar. as always we have a meeting at 5pm on friday.
        
        cjq: docs is working on updating the sipb front page, then other related pages. you can join the #docs channel in mattermost and comment on the doc.

Other:

        almonds: we got an email to sipb@mit.edu about updating ppat.mit.edu. i replied offering help. i've noticed he's been updating it apparently? and it seems to have gotten a little bit broken since i last checked. but he hasn't replied back.
        
        jmvidal: apple is making relevant strides to make the siri activation command to be "siri" and not "hey siri".
        
        alwinfy: what happens if siri comes up in conversation?
        
        jmvidal: more accidental activations. they haven't done it yet since they're working to make sure it doesn't happen that often, but it probably will still happen a lot.
        
        vivekab: i'm vivek, i already graduated and am here to pitch interstellar. the code is in decent shape but there's maintenance work that needs to be done every semester to run a script to scrape new classes to the website, and pubbing work so people know it actually exists. there's a lot of room to improve the app, whether it's adding more features, making it more well-known, it is nice to know what classes your friends are in. the certs expired 18 days ago. i don't actually know how the project works.
        
        guoj1112: what's the stack?
        
        vivekab: it's a react app.
        
        cjq: where is it hosted?
        
        vivekab: heroku.
        
        cjq: if i am interested in helping, what should i do?
        
        vivekab: you should reach out to me and i can put you in touch with everyone else who helped make it. i'm also going to make a mattermost channel on #interstellar. if you have experience through web.lab it should be not too bad to onboard and help.
        
        almonds: how does it work if you don't have a sponsor and want to join the mattermost?
        
        vivekab: what is a sponsorship?
        
        almonds: it keeps your kerberos activated; i'm working with my advisor to publish a paper.
        
        cjq: cool, if we want to make interstellar a sipb project eventually we probably want to get it hosted on scripts.
        
        amigdal [in chat]: host everything on hyades! coming soon™
        
        cjq: do we know who is maintaining mattermost? we've been getting a lot of questions.
        
        mitimmy: efjepsen? could be wrong.

Other Other:

        agrebe: election day is sooner than you think!
        
        jmvidal: pikachu is closer than you think!
        
        cjq: it was not, in fact, closer than i thought.
        
        almonds: can i get like a mentor in sipb to talk about what goes on? i've kinda just like shown up in meetings, just in general, or schedule a one-time thing? i could just ask this on the mattermost.
        
        mitimmy: what are you thinking of scheduling?
        
        almonds: to talk with someone who's been here for a while?
        
        alwinfy: like a briefing for new members?
        
        almonds: that'd be cool.
        
        jmvidal: i think one of the best ways might be to contact maintainers specifically on projectsdb, like individual emails listed there. like sipb project database website, it's on the main page.
        
        cjq: sipb is quite decentralized, usually you come in wanting to work on something specific and ask the maintainers about how to help.
        
        amigdal [in chat]: "do-ocracy".


The meeting was adjourned at 19:46.

        Minutes taken and submitted by cjq.