Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 28 September 1981 The meeting was called to order at 19:35 by David C. Plummer. In attendance were barmar, RK, ADF, Alan, DCP, WER, CAH, J9, RLL, Naha, BIM, GMP, LRH, JIS, KYM, and prospective members Richard Lai, Jon Rochlis, and Howard Trachtman. Late were: DPC, JSL The minutes of the meeting of 21 September 1981 were read and accepted as corrected. Everyone introduced themselves to each other. Treasurer's Report: Today was the end of the month. $4,670.65 last month on Multics, not including fixed costs. We had a record week (for this year), due to anonymous.ECS' high spending. $130.72 last month on the 370. We seem to be pretty effective in getting people off shift 3. There was a phone bill on the board last week, but it turned out to be June's. Jay is having trouble coercing the most recent bill out of Kathy O'Sullivan. Jay spoke to Bob Davine about getting No.6 Club terminal on our service contract. Bob Davine said he would take care of it. Jay is also wondering what happened to the purchase orders for the LA120 paper and SpinWriter ribbons. He will look into it. There are only 11 active Coop users currently. Chairman's Report: The chairman is at home frobbing his house. DPC came in during this. Office Report: We are having difficulties with DEC Service. We think that the office VT100 is unreadable, they think it is fine. When the serviceman comes again, don't tell him that it is OK, and don't let it leave the office. JIS is talking to higher-ups at DEC, and is trying to get it replaced. WER tried to clean up the CURRENT MAGAZINES pile. The magazines managed to find their way back to the pile. KYM also tried to clean it too, and put many of them in HGA's bin. Sign up for Coolie-of-the-Day. People should also write reasonable instructions when they leave coolie instructions. Do we still want a dorm-phone in the office? Is it possible to get one? People sometimes have trouble reaching us from dormphone. RK moved that we tell RLL to badger Dormphone about bringing in a Dormline after he installs the Vadic switch on the terminal in the Student Center. It passes. *** User Interrupt *** James B. Rosen - $100 - for word-processing for courses. Has had a total of $175 already this year. Jay explained to him our policy of a little for everyone, and the tightness of our budget. Given $50. *** End User Interrupt *** There is a log (in the left-hand drawer) for mailing of Lisp Notes. Please use it. *** User Interrupt *** Michael E. Schlein - $500 - UROP on a statistical analysis of voter turnout, using the Consistent System. Alot of the time will be spent inputting the data, as it is currently only on paper. Given. It will be given in chunks, with an initial allotment of $100. SCEP (Bob Willis) - $0 (to turn back on, has $35 left) - Wants to finish up, setting up some explanation files, and finishing up exec_coms. Bob clarified what SCEP has been doing with our money for the last two years. Most of the time they have been creating course evaluations for the faculty; the student one came out for the first time this year. Someone will probably be coming in a few weeks to ask for the next term's money. Given. *** End User Interrupt *** JSL came in during this. Since we can't get the SpinWriter to do even/odd pages, CAH has changed it so it will no longer print any blank pages Computer Services: There is a person spending lots of time in ECS, so JIS turned on the governor, with the ratio of 1cpusec/min. Some people think that this is too low. An ECS login message should be set up announcing this fact. SIPB_registrar's password has been changed. CAH has changed dprint_mail to log the fact that it has received and submitted network dprint requests. Telecommunication Report: RLL will move two hard-wired terminals out into the Student Center Library soon, and will also install the 300/1200 baud switch on the Vadic. CAH has been looking into graphics printers, and will have a recommendation for the Board soon. He says that it would displace the LA120, and thinks that the LA120 should be moved to Next House. Do we want to have a Smoke Filled Room Meeting? This question caused much flaming. It was moved that the SIPB lose; it passed. We will have a technical meeting in about 2-3 weeks to discuss graphics printer proposals. It will be Tuesday, 6 October 1981. RK moved that when the Next House dataset arrives (in about three weeks) that we put the LA120 there, if it's free, otherwise nothing. The Next House terminal will be discussed at next Tuesday's special meeting. BIM will talk to the Dean's Office about them putting up some funds for a Next House terminal. Push to Computer Services: RK spoke to WMY about the ECS governor. RK moved that the governor ratio be set to 3cpusec/min. Passed. Pop. RLL proposed that we talk about other telecommunications ideas at next week's special meeting. RLL will get a Datamedia DT80 VT100-like terminal for a demo in the office. WER is planning to send terminal letters to the living groups. RK moved that we change the liability agreement to include datasets and other auxiliary equipment and change the living group liability from $500 to $1000. We noted that we have never tried to collect such high fees from a living group, so this amount is just a threat, to make them be more careful. The motion has been split. The part about including the auxiliary equipment in the agreement passed. The part about raising the liability lost. CAH moved that we purchase two Black-Box modems and a rack. BIM suggests that we talk about this at next week's telecommunication meeting. {People are being driven out of the meeting.} We will do that. WER sent a letter to Telecommunications asking them to change the Burton phone to Class F. Telecom is still losing their ass. WER has taken over the job of looking for a terminal cover. She wants to know what to do. She should look at the one in the EECS Office. Push to Computer Services: RK has written SIPB.info. It is on the board; people should look at it and comment. It is planned to be installed in the IML info directory. Pop. Publications Report: WER wrote an article for Crosstalk. She was going to give us a chance to review it, but they needed it in a rush. So she let RK review it, and it was turned in to Crosstalk. It is too late now to chenge anything. Annual-Report Report: More stats were typed in this week. We are up to Q. IAP Report: The deadline for the First IAP Guide is in about two weeks. We will run a programming contest, the LISP Course, and a text processing course. Alan will run the contest, barmar will run the LISP Course, and CAH is in charge of the TextPro Course. Other: Membership cards expire this week. New cards will be available in the strongbox this week, after WMY signs them. Applications: We will postpone the reading of autoed applications to office, as there are still many. Whoever does it should remember to total Multics Student, CMS, and Coop separately. Amram, Joseph A. - $150 on 370 to continue using Sesame on CMS for a UROP project. Deferred until he comes to a meeting. Push to Office Report: Remember to hack the OK2RUN list each week. Pop. Hui, Yuk-Lun - $50 - to learn CMS for a possible job. Given, contingent upon him signing the liability agreement. Kahle, Brewster - Warning Form - printing mailing labels on an account for group theory and LISP hacking. Stacy, Christopher C. - $50 to meeting (because he is staff) - to learn to program on Multics. Given. Try to give him the userid "CStacy". Total appropriations: $3195 without Coop Autoed: Student: $2335 370: $210 To Meeting: $650, EC: $0, all Student. Coop: $165 Other Other: Many people got new watches this week. There are many of the same ones. The meeting was adjourned at 22:05. Minutes taken and submitted by Barry Margolin.