Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2024-07-22


The meeting was called to order at 19:35 by rgabriel.

In attendance were

        Student keyholders: rgabriel, psvenk, colclark

        Associate keyholders: almonds, asahteck

        Members: guoj1112

        Guests: '()

Administrivia:

        rgabriel: We need people for Midway. I realize that we might not have enough people to staff the Midway booth. (Midway is when you put all the prefrosh into a room and they learn about all the clubs.)
        
        almonds: When is Midway?
        
        rgabriel: I'm pretty sure it's the 30th.
        
        almonds: I'll land back in Boston on the 30th
        
        psvenk: I will unfortunately be in India on the 30th
        
        guoj1112: I'll be available; I'll always be in the area.
        
        rgabriel: There's a chance I will be here on the 30th, but I would have to pay to change my flight.
        
        rgabriel: I think colclark is going to be here?
        
        rgabriel [to colclark who just walked into the room, like a comedy TV show trope]: Are you going to be at Midway?
        
        colclark: I will be around but I can't staff the table as I will be in charge of Midway.
        
        rgabriel: So guoj1112 is the only person who can be at Midway?
        
        guoj1112: I wouldn't want to be the only person. But I'm not going to be working on the 30th of August, so I could be there.
        
        almonds: I'm looking at my schedule, and I would have to change two different things to be able to make it
        
        rgabriel: What time is Midway?
        
        colclark: It's from 2:30 to 4:30 on Aug 30. There is no penalty for not having any early returns to show up, so it makes sense to sign up.
        
        almonds: Then let's sign up, and we can @ people in Town Square, especially if not many people show up to next week's meeting.
        
        colclark: guoj1112, would it be sufficient if I came by every 15 minutes?
        
        guoj1112: I could accommodate that. It's not like Midway is something that requires my undivided attention.
        
        colclark: It goes for 2 hours.
        
        almonds: Should we discuss things to give away for Midway?
        
        rgabriel: We could talk more about merch.
        
        [discussion about merch]
        
        colclark: We could put my face on it, that's always an option.
        
        psvenk: That goes against my principles.
        
        rgabriel: We could do the things on the ceiling, or a fuzzball riding a 3-headed dog.
        
        almonds: We can also use both the front and back of the shirt.
        
        [further merch discussion]
        
Project Reports:

        almonds: LLMs feels like it continues.
        
        almonds: rgabriel, got any projects?
        
        rgabriel: Nothing continues.
        
        almonds: That's a project?
        
        rgabriel: Yeah, it is an improved version of /dev/null.
        
        almonds: That makes me think of a USB key that you plug into your computer and it acts as a keyboard that holds down the Backspace button. We can give that out at Midway, right? [joking]
        
        rgabriel: We can give it out to unsuspecting prefrosh.
        
Other:

        almonds: Certificates expire on July 30, so it's good practice to change your password if you haven't in a year (and get new certs).
        
        rgabriel: I've seen two places that haven't switched to Okta. One is Outlook/Exchange and the other is the Ethernet registration captive portal.
        
        almonds: I've noticed the Outlook one too, on Thunderbird.
        
Other Other:

        rgabriel: We can't leave this Other Other without talking about Crowdstrike.
        
        colclark: Yes we can.
        
        rgabriel: I already mentioned it, so we already did.
        

The meeting was adjourned at 20:06.

        Minutes taken by psvenk, almonds and rgabriel, and submitted by almonds.