Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 17 May 1982 The meeting was called to order at 19:32 EDT by Wendy E. Rowe In attendance were TZS, ZRM, CBF, DCP, JIS, WMY, RK, RLL, WER, DCP, Barmar. Late were: BIM, JR, JSL, Jay, naha The minutes of the meeting of 10 May 1982 were read and accepted as corrected. *User interrupt. Carey D. Bunks. $50 for sticky label address and resume output. Given. [End] Treasurer's Report: 01: Things are dying down. 02: StudentAD has been changed so that the warning percentage is 2. Another $1000 has been put in the StudentAD project. [JR entered] Chairman's Report: 01: WER presented WMY with a gavel in honor of his service. 02: WMY advised the freshmen that we should strive to maintain our integrity and work together as a group. He thanked us for a good time. 03: WER will be busy and the capital budget is incomplete. RK thinks that we should ask for as much money as we can. WER (and Jay) replied that that will make us look irresponsible. CBF thinks that we should be the advocates of student computing on campus. WMY says that we should decide and ask for exactly the right amount of money. Does Chuck Libby know that we have 14 new Z-19 terminals that need to be put on service contracts? -- CBF. Probably. CBF passed out a history of SIPB computer budgets from 1973 to the present. CBF proposes that we present the history and set a constant rate of support. ZRM agrees with CBF. JIS is worried that we may be too late in asking for a budget and may cause us to be subjected to more scrutiny than usual. He suggests we be very specific in amount and in what we plan to accomplish. CBF says that the theme is to expand part of the Student Center Library into a public terminal room. In the future, we should work out our budget barmar IAP. WMY says that Corbato is very hard-nosed about budgets. Barmar says that we should indicate what the packages are so that necessary components are not cut. WMY thinks that we should get our own terminal concentrator up and running. JIS said that department heads had to make "task scoring" reports. JIS says that we should explicitly state what will happen if certain things aren't funded. WER says that she will do this Thursday afternoon. CBF says that he can do it after his last exam Tuesday. ZRM says that we too should become more display-terminal-oriented and that the specific problem is a lack of terminals. CBF disagrees and points out that we have an extra terminal in the office and in the Heath service center in Wellesley. 03A: Motion to accept proposal 2 with 3 auto-dialers which would come to about $10,000. [JSL entered] WMY thinks that the auto- dialers are superfluous. WMY voiced the fear that we may not even get a capital budget. Motion passed. 04: WMY -- John Gonzales was told to get his thesis off of the SIPBOLC project. He was then removed from the project. R. K. Scott doesn't seem to be all that upset with the SIPB according to WMY. Office Report: 01: Barmar says that the User Message Board should be renamed the Member Message Board. 02: CBF says that we should play the office game soon and clean out the application drawer. [Jay entered] 03: JIS thinks that we should stake out our office turf in the new building. JIS has been asked to do some intelligence work for us so we can design a layout. 04: WMY equipped the SpinWronger with some vicious signs after yet-another-user frobbed the knob. CBF--The location of the cover is critical. 05: WMY has promised to remove the dangerous black arm-chair. 06: Barmar--What should we do about summer extensions? WMY says that we should say that their accounts will be continued until 1 July 1982 because we are uncertain of our budget. There are currently two people with 1 Sep 1982 cutoffs. 07: RK says that last week's minutes failed to mention many important things that were discussed, including SpinWronger output. Computer Services: 01: JIS says that the Coop account must be restricted to internal MIT work to avoid the overhead surcharge. 02: WMY read Wes Burner's computing services budget. [CAH, naha entered] 03: RK will implement a policy such that there should be no inactive members on the SIPBADMIN project. Telecommunications Report: 01: RLL says that Z-19 keyboards can act in weird ways because of chip failures. Barmar has noticed that sometimes the Z-19's in the Student Center stop sending characters. 02: CBF says that nobody sent in a requisition for the Z-19 service contract to keep our place in line. 03: Everybody should be aware of the orange book when receiving money for telecommunications. Remind LRH. 04: Terminal distribution. Status of East Campus phone line. The Foosball table and the terminal cannot coexist in the same room. 05: The Senior House Vadic is with their terminal chairman. 06: McCormick and MacGregor have not replied to our letter about the Vadics. 07: Microwave link. The mast is being mounted. CBF says that we should discuss the Student Center layout. Publications Report: 01: Only 5 EMACS addenda left to distribute. 02: CBF says that we should add a new-user box on the applications to make sure that we NEW_USER the person. RK asserts that we should NEW_USER everyone. WMY will work on the registration tool over the summer. 03: WMY thinks that the Form B1 should be re-written. Annual-Report Report: NIL IAP Report: NIL Other: NIL Applications: 01: to meeting A: Baker House. $30. To keep a record of gifts and print form letters. Jay thinks it should be a Co-op application. CBF moved to give on a one-time basis and also to give a recommendation that they not do keep track of the gifts. B: Pearsall, Bob. $XX. To produce a text on programming for a course to be taught in Ohio. Deferred until he comes to meeting. 02: EC votes A: Seidewitz, Edwin V. $30 Given for 24.903 paper. B: Foss, Kristen K. $50. Given for processing a paper on the dedicatee of WILG and a paper for 21.178. C: Janavicius, L. V. $50. Given for 21.762, 3.14, 3.16 papers. D: Marki, Frederick. $25. Given for TROLL analysis. E: Marvin, Kathrine. $20 Given for footnotes on 21.371 paper. Known loser. F: Hall, Elizabeth. $10. Given for finishing papers. G: Williams, Robert L. $30 Given for final papers for 21.760 and 9.70. ***Some may be missing--Lai 03: Warning forms A: Diamandis, Peter. Printed something that looked like a thesis, but it was just a header page for a required lab. B: Weisenberg, Neil. Allowed Victor Iannello to use his account. WER called him and he never returned the call. [this was from last week] C: Mansell, J. Quality printing multiple copies of papers. BCN. Total appropriations: $2284.89 without Coop Autoed: Student: $1645 370: $0 To Meeting: $30, EC: $205, $1880 all Student. Coop: $404.89 Other Other: 01: naha said that Fenway House dropped 1,500 superballs in Lobby 7. 02: DCP showed us the 4x4 Rubik's Cube. 03: CBF went to the AppleFest over the weekend and saw a cube-solving robot from the University of Illinois. 04: WMY--theses are due this week. MIT-XX went down and some senior doing their theses on that machine were upset since the file system was corrupted. 05: There was a SIPB search for Sweet Tarts. 06: WMY--the Thunderbird can be outfitted with a CRT that shows various statistics about the car. 07: RLL--some people are going to Knoxville for the World's Fair about 14 July. 08: Two lunar eclipses this year. 09: ACW and WER found a new way to raise money for the HBD fund by instituting a tax on flaming. RK says that whoever is caught flaming should drink 2-oz of Johnny Walker Black. The meeting was adjourned at 21:29 EDT. Minutes taken and submitted by Richard Lai.