Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2024-03-11 The meeting was called to order at 19:33 by innaavo. In attendance were Student keyholders: alwinfy, innaavo, psvenk, rgabriel, turino14, jmvidal, aabreu, arjunjb Associate keyholders: almonds, kenta Members: scj643, alianisl Guests: jeffery Administrivia: innaavo: Yeah! SIPB meeting! Let's go! psvenk: CPW is sooner than you think. rgabriel: We should chat more about CPW. Are there any other events? innaavo: I'm asking colclark - I'll ask you too. One of the things they ask us is to fill out an event type field - Academic Research, Affinity Groups, Arts & Culture, Athletic, Professional Career Development, Residential Community, Student Life. We have to pick one to classify our events under. psvenk: Affinity group - we're a frat. [various]: ? psvenk: There's an old joke dating to before my time that we're a frat - Sigma Pi Beta. innaavo: So we're a student group? For computer science? psvenk: Computer science. The most oppressed minority. innaavo: Well, we could be student life… psvenk: It is a little weird to call ourselves an affinity group. [various]: Student life, then. aabreu: What did we put the last CPW? innaavo: Not sure innaavo: Reminder to sign up for at least one event! Just so we can show up to. Server room Fri 17:30-18:30, SIPB dinner party Sat 19:00-23:00, Project showcase Fri 18:30-20:30, Python Bee Thu 17:00-20:00. aabreu: Should I show up if I'm not HWOps? psvenk: Well, when I went to CPW, I went to the tour and there were people there just showing up to vibe and tell us about how MIT is the best and we should totally join. innaavo: We should do it like a frat. Coffee chats with everyone. [various]: [laughter] psvenk: If you're a keyholder, you have to live in the SIPB office. And you have to pay rent. alwinfy: As a reminder, we're running something this Friday I believe? innaavo: Yes! Our SIPB party - St. Pi-tricks day! 18:30. alwinfy: Someone's gotta dormspam about that. I'll take care of it. psvenk: How do we feel about the connotations/general vibes of "dinner party"? I think hackathon is a bit too techy, dinner party is a bit too fancy - black tie, tablecloth, hors d'oeuvres, five different knives… nmorgan: Traumatizing! psvenk: It is a party with dinner. People do get the wrong idea with dinner party… psvenk: …Whatever happened to SIPB Rave? alwinfy: Where are the disco balls!! innaavo: SIPB social maybe? psvenk: We are a frat… [crosstalk] alwinfy: Please no booze in the SIPB office. I will kill you. innaavo: About the hackathon this Friday - who's getting the pies and stuff? alwinfy: [points at psvenk] psvenk: [offended] Me?? innaavo: How are we getting pies? innaavo: SIPB Costco run? almonds: Info about MIT's Costco shuttle - https://web.mit.edu/facilities/transportation/shuttles/grocery.html [discussion about logistics] psvenk: We could get pizza pies [Chicago-style] and pies! innaavo: Let's do Costco this Thursday at 17:00. On Pi day! alwinfy: Shuttle's off at that point, we'll have to go without. psvenk: And I'll order deep-dish pies on Friday. I'll doordash. innaavo: Let's meet outside the Kendall T at 17:15. We'll try to be in and out in about three hours. alwinfy: SIPB costco card…? alwinfy: I'd like to make an allocation for $200 for a new doorsign. Our old sign disappeared, the company we bought it from went under in 2017. A cruft knows what type signs they are, Betabrite. On ebay, they seem to go for about $200, so we can get a door sign again. nmorgan: Why this brand in particular? alwinfy: Shit's fucked on Amazon. All those signs are IoT and WiFi and all. I just want a sign I can program over a serial cable. innaavo: Why not do it ourselves? We've learned how! alwinfy: Maintenance overhead. almonds: Seconded [motion passes 8-0] kenta: I think we can get away with white-balloting anything! The US Congress white-ballots trillions of dollars. innaavo: We're better than the US Congress. psvenk: We actually get things done! Project Reports: nmorgan: Hyades continues aabreu: DormDigest continues psvenk: Hydrant/CourseRoad continues rgabriel: Matrix continues! We'll have meetings mondays almonds: LLMs continues jmvidal: HWOps continues aabreu: Reminder to update your docs for onboarding. innaavo: I'll hold people accountable for that, actually. How's that going now? almonds: DormDigest onboarding - we're working on it. We meet Sundays 1pm. jmvidal: Eh-- progress...? innaavo: I'm watching you. innaavo: Did anyone ever get info on SIPB Tor? rgabriel: SIPB Tor continues! We took that trip to the Boston Net Exchange last Thursday, and upgraded a server to Debian 12! Other: alwinfy: Snacks are back! psvenk got a bit hosed, but we went today and got some stuff. We also got some reserve stock because food decays exponentially. aabreu: What happened to the social media stuff? innaavo: On hold due to CPW - I'll get into it once that's set up. In the meantime - anyone want to help? Any takers? [various]: [discussion] nmorgan: SIPB TikTok? almonds: If it gets members! kenta [in chat]: If you search for "billion digits of pi" on Google, the first link will be SIPB, a computation done on a SIPB computer by myself years ago. https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/contrib/pi/ Other Other: scj643: I'm engaged! [applause] scj643: We're still planning the wedding innaavo: Congrats! I'm so excited for you. alwinfy: CPW is sooner than you think. guoj1112: Pi Day is sooner than you think. jmvidal: St. Patrick's Day is sooner than you think innaavo: I took the RAADS-R autism test with my boyfriend and I got a 94 and he got a 54. So guess who won! [laughter] psvenk: [...] Don't put this in the minutes! [discussion] psvenk: Actually, you're all my therapists. The meeting was adjourned at 20:07. Minutes taken by alwinfy, innaavo, almonds and submitted by alwinfy.