Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 7 December 1981
	The meeting was called to order at 19:34 by William M. York.
	
In attendance were barmar, GMP, PAE, JSL, HGA, RK, WMY, WER, Naha, JIS,
    TZS, Lai, JR, and Gill Pratt.
		
Late were: CAH, RDM, DCP, HDT, BIM, DLW
	The minutes of the meeting of 30 November 1981 were read
	and accepted as corrected.
    CAH, RDM came in during this.

	Treasurer's Report:
November Spending: Multics $10001.51;  370 $203.08; JCF: $71.55
     Total: 10276.14; last year $11,610.42.
     (JCF was not in last week's November total)
Year through end of November: $31,751.07; last year $44,198.56.
MTD Multics: $4027.96 ($650 SIPB & SIPBADMIN)  ($715.96 storage).  There
    is some concern, as the SIPB/SIPBADMIN spending is very high ($500
    in one week).  Alot of this was GMP's purchases of manuals, some of
    which we have been reimbursed for.
YTD except December (370 and JCF) (remember the distributive law):  $35779.03
Multics allocated & not spent $22,000
The Treasurer has been very busy neglecting his duties.
 
	Chairman's Report:
Hulsizer has not called a CCE meeting because he is quote busy.
The phone calls from the DSA office were just to get the mailing addresses of
    our officers.  They then sent them invitations to luncheons over IAP
    to talk about various aspects of student organizations.  Much of
    the discussion is expected to be about student organizations' money.
The Annual Report came in.  Some were quickly sent off to the people on
    our distribution list.  A couple are bound on the wrong side.  Dick
    Steinberg wants to be able to give copies away to visiting
    dignitaries, so we have created a compout that he can dprint as he
    needs.
    DCP came in during this.
WMY read the luncheon invitation (see above) and agenda.  The officers
    are planning to go.
*** User Interrupt ***
Rogus, Ronald D. - $40 - Wants to learn about Multics and Fortran.  He is
    the person who was using Mak's account (see warning form), as he is
    not a student anymore this term (he was earlier in the term).
    Rejected. 
*** End User Interrupt ***
 
	Office Report:
barmar pruned the job forms folder, and put old ones in a new bin in
    Administrative Archives.
At 11am on Friday, 12/4/81 someone tried to login as BIM from the office
    terminal several times.  It is still unknown who it was.
It took a long time to get keys for the last two new members.  They were
    up in Bobby Payson's office.
The binder with the daily spending logs is getting full again.  What do
    we do with them?  We will ask Jay.
There is a Bell 212 dataset in the office.  Don't touch.  It is from
    Next House.
 
	Computer Services:
After making the requested changes, RK submitted SIPB.info to RKScott
    for installation.
RK straightened out some problems with the installation of bound_sipb_maint_.
Remember to new_user people.
Barmar came up with a scheme for handling paying for IAP IPS courses.
    It involves a meal ticket that the student gets from us after paying
    a $5 deposit.  After going to the class, they can get the deposit
    back.  He will do something like this, and have instructions on the
    board by next Monday (when the IPS starts taking applications). 
*** User Interrupt ***
Cozart, Gail - $25 - text edit 6-7 5-page papers.  Has had $150, with
    which she has done about 15 papers.  Given $50.
*** End User Interrupt ***
RKScott agreed to create the SIPBOLC project, which the IPC will fund,
    and is for SIPB members while they are OLC'ing.
The SIPB_registrar password was changed and then unchanged, as there was
    confusion as to whether a login by him was valid.  If you are going
    to login as him from a random terminal, login as yourself first so
    the log will show that a trustworthy person is using that terminal.
 
	Telecommunications Report:
If we hook up a modular phone to a Vadic (instead of getting a Vadic
    phone), it is possible to get around the fact that the exclusion
    switch won't be accessible.  We can save lots of money this way.
WER will try to fix some confusion upstairs that is arising over which
    of our budgets should be used for what expenditures.
The Next House Bell 212 was installed, but it is here for now,
    as there is some confusion at Telecommunications over what class line
    we want.  WER will fix this tomorrow.  CAH spoke to the MIT liaison
    at the phone company today: they will install MacGregor's phone very
    soon.  Our representative a TPC says she goes through this same
    person, though.
It doesn't look like the Z19's have been ordered yet.  If
    Next House's phones are ready before they come in, should we
    move a terminal from the Student Center there?  If so, which
    terminal should be moved there?
Dennis Baron now knows that WER is our telecommunications chairperson.
Do we want to order more Z19's so we can sell our Telerays and replace
    them.  Motion that we order 2 more (total of four, if the others
    have not yet been ordered yet) for this purpose.  Passed after much
    discussion.  Motion to
    exchange the office VT100 with a Student Center Teleray for the time
    being.  As soon as the Z19's come in, the Teleray would be replaced
    with it.  Passed after much flaming.
    HDT, BIM came in during this.
DCP suggests that we offer the Telerays to people who need a console
    terminal for new LSI-11 systems.
RLL hasn't spoken with Dennis Baron about laying wires yet.  The
    Networking Group also isn't sure how to get Chaosnet to the Student
    Center. 
What should be put in Next House when the phone situation is settled?
    Motion to put a Z19 there (or a Teleray if a Z19 isn't ready at the
    time).
The Burton terminal was reported broken, but when WMY showed up there it
    was fine.
    DLW came in during this.
We should keep a chart that records whether there is an extra box of
    paper in the Student Center.  We will put a hole in the cabinet and
    have a card behind it that the user calling in  can look at us for.
 
	Publications Report:
The ECS manuals came in.
 
	Other:
BIM will be teaching a LISP course in Paris over IAP.
The auto limit is per year, not per term.  When people who were previously
    cut off come in next year, the member will have to look up the
    person's spending up to Jan 1, so we only give the user the amount
    of additional money he actually needs, since he will have unspent
    money left over. 
 
	Applications:
Dobroth, Thomas - $25 - To finish previous projects, doing numeric
    calculations and writing the report generated from this.  Given.
Lepingwell, John W. - $25 - To finish a term paper that he is half
    through.  Given.
Myers, Richard - $50 by EC - finish papers.
Schmidtt, Margaret - $60 - to finish a paper and start another one (to
    be finished during IAP as an incomplete).  Has had $100 so far.
    Given. 
Kenton, Scott - $10 by EC - runoff a 28-page paper.
Woodward, Kieth - $50 by EC - to finish his papers.
 
		Total appropriations: $1630 without Coop
	  Autoed: 
	    Student: $1320
	    370: $50
	  To Meeting: $110, EC: $110,  all Student.
		Coop: $40

	Other Other:
There are two Firesign Theatre albums in the office now, thanks to Naha.
According to HGA, working with RLL is exhilarating.
WOS has left CISL.  He is now doing consulting.
Who owns the ice cream sandwich cookies in the freezer?
Pay coke-com.
People keep falling off chairs.
There are many French people at CISL currently.
This week there is going to be a late-night movie, "Joe Macbeth".
The Messiah Sing is Friday.
We need stamps and LA120 and TTY43 paper.
The first snow of the year was this weekend.  It was a big piece of
    snow.
 
	The meeting was adjourned at 22:26 to birthday cake for many
    members.

	     Minutes taken and submitted by Barry Margolin.