Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 11 January 1982 The meeting was called to order at 19:31 by William M. York. In attendance were GMP, CAH, barmar, RK, WMY, RLL, ZRM, J9, JIS, TZS, WER, Lai, HGA, DCP, and DMK. Late were: LRH, JR, Naha, Jay, and c/ The minutes of the meeting of 4 January 1982 were read and accepted as corrected. LRH, JR, and Naha came in during this. *** Many User Interrupts *** Steven Schwartz - $30 - for personal text processing, including a UROP proposal. He has had $188 so far. Given. Hillel (Steven Schwartz) - mailing lists, and form letters to the Executive Board. Given $60. Stewart Vile - $50 - Writing a 30-35 page term paper to finish an incomplete. Has had $115. Given. John Miller - $100 - text editing for cover letter, resume, and papers for the spring term. Has had $145 so far. Given $50, as we want to know what the spring project will be. Dramashop (Mark Troy) - to write programs that maintain the box office and reservations. They will pay for the actual use. Given $75. WMBR - $400 - to keep programming logs, music sheets for record companies, and edit documentation of the antenna. Has had $630 so far. Given. *** End User Interrupt *** Treasurer's Report: MTD Multics: $1590.39 (913.51 DISK !!!!!!!) MTD 370: $??? (actually the high disk percentage may be because of lots of credits) YTD except January 370 and January JCF: $44,050.59 Multics allocated & not spent $6,134. Non-treasurer's report: What happened to the Z19 warranty cards ? Did anyone call and find out the number of the other terminal etc. ? Warranty cards don't really need to be sent in. Someone (Barry) should fix >unb emacs ctl for the h19's. There seems to be a padding problem. JIS is willing to submit an emergency installation. When Alan went to Gnomon Copy last week, they wouldn't accept his Tax Exempt number. If this happens again, take the person's name. Chairman's Report: The four officers attended a luncheon given by the Dean for Student Affairs Office, along with representatives of several organizations. The SCC was on trial this week, and their officers sat on the dais. The fairly new SCC chairman spoke about all the things that SCC does, and about their organization. They seem to be fairly similar to us in their operations. WMY mentioned to them that by limiting themselves to the Student Center they are often not aiding some organizations based upon random chance. WMY thinks he might not have found them so palatable had he known earlier about the fact that they spend alot of money on feeding their members (including two formal dinners a year). The chairman is planning to send a mildly flaming letter complaining. The new SCC administration is planning to get their act together in terms of their policies. The chairman has still not sent the apology to Ta-Ko Chen. The chairman has gotten a proper job offer from CISL and he has accepted. Office Report: RK thinks that application taking techniques are going down the drain. Make sure that you fill in the processing section of Form B's when taking 370 applications. Make sure that you write down on a Coop application how the money was payed and also note it in the cashbook. Use the logbook. *** User Interrupt *** Borland, Duncan - $150 - Finishing writing that he began last term. It is part of a book. He has no current plans to sell it, but it is the kind of thing that might eventually come up. He has and will also be using parts of it as classwork. He has had $115 so far, with which he wrote about 70 pages, and was warned that this could be the last he might get. Given. *** End User Interrupt *** We still have a coolie box. Look in it. The current OK2RUN list is on the blackboard. There is some confusion as to who can be autoed for Coop applications. We should make a firm decision now. RK moved that Coop applications may be autoed for all members of the MIT community, including student organizations and professors. WMY doesn't think that professors should be autoable, as they have MIT accounts and can get their own projects, and we also want to keep the number of Coop applications down. RK thinks that it depends upon the circumstances, and a professor with a ten-dollar bill should be able to get a Coop account, while a student or professor with a req for several hundred dollars should get a project. WMY thinks that we should keep our auto policies for both Student and Coop accounts similar, for ease of memory. J9 thinks that we should be able to auto student organization Coop accounts. WMY suggests that we can auto Coop accounts for individual students, student organizations, and simple projects for other members of the MIT community. Anything else (or if you are unsure) should be taken to meeting. Where is the office pepper shaker? We are supposed to be building a SpinWriter cover this month. J9 is a Hobby Shop member. The office game was retrieved off backup tape and played several days ago. There is a proposal on the board. Objections should go to WMY. We are also planning to put the loft on legs. Hopefully, the final plan will be implemented in several weeks. Labels were stuck on Student?? account applications of students whose cutoff amounts were changed on January 1. The labels contain the new cutoff amounts. We already sent our resubscriptions in to Electronics and Computerworld. Remove stuff that collected last term in the gray shelves that is no longer useful. WMY collected periodicals and put them in a box in the darkroom. Computer Services: A cleanup from December 1, 1981 will be done. RK moved to delete_student all students who were cutoff on January 1 or before. There was a discussion of whether this will save us much. Passed. WMY caught someone who going to work on her thesis because she thought she had money left, but was caught by the new cutoff scheme. WER will have a new policy statement on the board. Jay should delete Coop users who were cutoff. bound_sipb_maint_ was installed, and we have submitted a new request for new updates. The SIPBOLC project got screwed this week. It turned out the the time-page-product of the directory got set too high, so it was overcharged for disk storage. Telecommunications Report: 19:00 Wednesday, 13 January 1981, is the Smoke-Filled-Room meeting. Look out for weird smoke. It is more important than "Forbidden Planet". We are still waiting for the four Teleray cables we ordered. We should advertise the availability of our Telerays. It is suggested that we try to sell them to student groups, to keep them within the student community. CAH will place a Tech Talk add. WER will be meeting with Dennis Baron this Wednesday. No.6 Club's DecWriter is broken. Their terminal chairman doesn't think that it is on our service contract, and Bob Davine doesn't have it on his list of terminals on our contract, but we think we put it on the contract last year. They will let us know what its serial number number is, so WER can check it with DEC. One of the Student Center VT100's is broken. Publications Report: We ran out of TOPS-20 Lisp Notes today. We have started selling the normal ones for $2 to the few who have still been coming in. We need NUMS. IAP Report: The text-processing course is tomorrow night. Jay came in during this. We have started giving back IPS Course money refunds. We have taken most of the money we have gotten from refunds to the Publications Office. If we get low on money in the refund envelope get more from Bonnie in the Publications Office. c/ came in during this. The 4.2 million characters of documentation in MC:INFO; are in 77 files, but the 5.1 million characters in >doc>info are in 900 files. Other: TCA wants help finding alternate funding for their blood drive. Perhaps they should be referred to SCC. People should try to provide refreshments for the Smoke-Filled-Room meeting. J9 will make a cheescake. Warning: LRH is taking the dirty stuff on the loft to the cleaners tomorrow. J9 will bring in her vacuum to clean the loft. Applications: Bern, Zui - $25 - has a micro, but needs Multics for high-quality output and use of Macsyma. Has had $100. Given. Horton, Jerry R. - $75 - Finishing mailing lists and RDMS files. Has had $75. Deferred until he comes to a meeting. Lai, Richard - $30 - Text processing and learning about Multics. Has had $28. Given. Kenwood, Gontran - $40 - Text editing for the spring. Has had $78. Given. Marantz, Joshua - $50 - Text editing, PL/I and Lisp learning. Has had $121. Deferred to discretion of office (he should be called). Michon, Brian - $50 - Learn Fortran and do text editing. Has had $82. Deferred to office, so we can find out what he is editing. Society of Women Engineers - $100 Coop by EC. Autoed applications will be totalled later by Naha and Jay. Total appropriations: $2895 without Coop Autoed: Student: $1835 370: $150 To Meeting: $910, EC: $0, all Student. Coop: $290 Other Other: LSC is getting "Star Wars" in September. There will be a tour of Dormphone next Wednesday afternoon. You have to preregister. Telephony is being offered this term. Several people are planning to take it (with or without credit, as the case may be). According to the latest CRC, the electron volt is now 10 orders of magnitude larger. Look out for new physical laws. People described the history of the company that publishes the CRC (the Chemical Rubber Company). Naha wants to go on a physical plant tour. TZS needs someone to give one of her Japanese Cooking Class teachers a lift to the Institute the afternoon of the 19th. There was an earthquake on Saturday at 7:59. Some people felt it, while others didn't. There was also one today at 16:45. ZRM is still homeless. Help him if you can. Symbolics is on the Chaosnet now. Multics can also talk to it now. Tom Knight is teaching an IAP course called Reverse Engineering (aka Intro to Industrial Espionage). You break open chips and examine them. It is at 1pm Mondays. J9 had the first meeting of her paper-folding course today at 1pm. Find J9's poster in Lobby 7. LRH wants to find someone with experience with the RCA 1402 (maybe 1802?) microprocessor. RK, J9, and WMY went skiing in NH on Sunday. They froze their asses off. The ambient temperature at the base was -12 F. They had fun anyway. RK is planning a trip to his parents' vacation house in PA this weekend. Due to popular demand, there will be a SIPB slide show. It will be scheduled next week. There are many things on our IAP-things-to-do list that we have not done. The meeting was adjourned at 22:39. Minutes taken and submitted by Barry Margolin.