Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 1 February 1982 The meeting was called to order at 19:39 by William M. York. In attendance were barmar, ACW, DMK, RK, Jay, DCP, WMY, WER, Naha, CAH, GMP, Lai, RLL, HGA, JR, c/, CBF, HDT, Ramin Zabih, Patrick L. Jennings. Late were: ZRM, Charlie Marker The minutes of the meeting of 25 January 1982 were read and accepted as corrected. 54 called during this. A pinch secretary was brought in at this point. *** User Interupt *** Sayed, Hazem I. - $150 - for papers for 4.698, 4.688, and FA225, total of 70 pages. Has had $128 so far, and he is being warned that this may be the last he will get. Given. *** End User Interrupt *** Treasurer's Report: Jay may not be at meetings for a while. We haven't yet been charged for the IPS courses. Year through end of January: $49,849.09. MTD Multics: $1,076.76. Jay will be going to the FinBoard later this month. The DSA luncheons are being turned into DSA dinners, but it looks like we aren't being invited. The next one is 2/11/82, and the topic is the effect of student activities on grades. Our FinBoard liaison left us some sample ADB proposals. WOS is going to be consulting on RDMS development. Jay made a mistake when creating last week's fascist graph. He has fixed it. Chairman's Report: CBF is back, and is a student. The chairman introduced him to the Board. He is now an active full member. c/ and ZRM are students and are active full members. DCP and RLL are no longer students, so they are now active associate members, so there are only seven EC members. We will have to elect new EC members and a new Vice-Chairman. DPC and MG were declared inactive full members. Nominations for Vice-Chairperson: WER and barmar. WER: 8, barmar: 3, 1 abstain. ZRM came in during this. Elections for two EC members: CBF: 7 JR: 2 ZRM: 3 KYM: 0 BIM: 1 Lai: 2 DMK: 1 TZS: 0 HDT: 1 c/: 7 The new EC members are c/ and CBF. *** User Interrupt *** Lee, Grace - doing graphics for an electromagnetics class, and learning Zeta graphics. Has spent $94 so far. Given $85. *** End User Interrupt *** Last Tuesday, WER and WMY were invited to speak with Wes Burner about how much space we want in the new building. They were agreed that about 500 sq. ft. is right. WMY pointed out that we want to be right next door to the terminal room, and Wes seemed to agree. Wes doesn't foresee any problems with the cross-campus wiring. Charlie Marker came in during this. After that, WMY and WER spoke to Paul Gray. They were going to talk about the move, but the meeting with Wes went so well that the topic was not the main topic. They talked about the SIPB-IPC relationship, and Gray was very straightforward. They told him about our past achievements. It was a win. WMY spoke with Al Drake today, and was told that today was not a good day to talk about him being our advisor. WMY will try again. We should begin to think about writing this year's Annual Report. It should be much easier than the last one, as it won't have to encompass as much. Office Report: It's very hot in here. DCP called FIXIT, and we made a hole in the ceiling. RK and WMY reorganized the gray file cabinet. They threw out old listings and junk from old members' bins. Clean out the disaster by the door or else. We should replace some ceiling tiles above the loft so that they don't drop fiberglass. The office was waxed on Tuesday. Computer Services: Bound_SIPB_maint_ has not been installed. RK thinks that the policy is that a member should have either a SIPB or SIPBADMIN account, but not both. This seems reasonable. Jeff negotiated with Bob Hart such that we can take requisitions on any account for Coop accounts. However, Jay still doesn't want to deal with large projects. Telecommunications Report: DCP spoke with Eric Ostrum. The Networking Group is planning to put a chaosnet terminal concentrator, which would support 16-20 terminals, in the Student Center. DCP suggests that we put several of our Student Center terminals on this, and that we donate our 11 to the effort. The Networking Group has ordered a microwave link for the Student Center. DEC is also planning to donate an 11 to the Networking Group. WMY suggests that we could save our hardware and spend our remaining money on a concentrator out in the western dorms. We should take all these things into account when we make our FinBoard and ADB proposals. We should have a Telecommunications planning meeting in order to decide what we will propose. We have a demo version of a Vadic 3451 that dials and autospeeds itself. CBF suggests that we upgrade the existing Vadics in the Student Center to these. We should get a new pica_10 thimble. Naha moved that we order two so that we will have a spare. Passes. Vadics seem to cost $800. This could be a problem, as we were planning on them costing $700. WER told Bob Davine to put the No. 6 Club terminal on our service contract. WER wrote a letter to Baker asking them to pay up or else. WER has made up instructions for how to use the orange book. She wants to train someone (preferably a freshman) to do telecommunications, now that she understands it. Publications Report: The manual racks have not been ordered. Someone should. ACW and RLL will go shopping for them on Wednesday. We have had several offers for the Telerays, but we haven't sold them yet. WMY hopes to decide who will get them in the next week. Our IMSL manual is for version 7, but we are running version 8. Someone should check if a more recent version is available from Publications. 80 Lisp Notes for 6.030 and Emacs handouts are going to be ready at Beane tomorrow. IAP Report: We got blue IAP course evaluation forms from the IAP office. They will be filled out and returned. ARCS is setting up an Education Task Force to study their courses. Other: Tom Smith, a 9th-grader at the Park School, would like to do a work-study project with us (like Fred Richardson two years ago). If anyone is interested in helping him, tell barmar. Applications: Willis, Bob - $100 - papers for 21.760 and 15.565. Has had $98. Given. Hillel - $70 - they are using their current account for mailing lists and constitution editing. They have had $60. Given $40. When you register someone with a long name, give them an alias by using "rega" instead of "reg". Helferty, Marianne - $20 - for editing. Hui, Yuk-Lun - WARNING - isn't doing what he said on his application. He doesn't seem to care. His account got reimbursed when he got scrod by a Zeta-plotter bug. Motion to give him come-to-office and then tell him to come to a meeting. Passed. Gonzales, John - $125 - editing for a humanities course and doing cover letters for fellowships. He has had $275 so far. Given $50. Patterson, Hazelyn - $50 - term paper for 9.60. She has had $125 so far. Given. Wallace, David - $50 - to explore Multics. He is an AI Lab hacker. Given. Seroussi, Richard - $60 - He has had $80. Deferred until he comes to office and can tell us what he is using it for. Sanders, Edward - $80 - For programming and text editing. He has had $90. He wants to learn COBOL. Given. Bellingham, James - $100 - for text editing of grant applications. Given. Spofford, John - $60. for text editing. Has had $65. Given. Total appropriations: $3280 without Coop Autoed: Student: $2545 370: $0 To Meeting: $735, EC: $0, all Student. Coop: $270 Other Other: The slide show will be a week from tomorrow, 2/9. The Hsing-Hsing New Years dinner will be a week from tomorrow, 2/9. Order PDQ Bach tickets from Jay now. WMY heard some Chinese students cursing Multics in Chinese. DCP is selling his figure skates. JSL bought a Subaru. CISL had an amazing pep rally last week. ACW has a synthesizer. The meeting was adjourned at 21:54 to the Reg Day movie. Minutes taken and submitted by Barry Margolin.