Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 01/13/86


	The meeting was called to order at 7:30pm by wcs.
	
	In attendance were 
		Voting members: wcs,plj,spook,jtkohl,srz, amy, theschun,
		  people I don't know
		Associate members: ew
		Non-voting members: 
		Prospectives: 
		Guests: 

	Treasurer's Report:
Treasurer has partner dance. Tim is new cokecomm guy

      Student Spending:  Month-to-date: 1,001.57 (these are really from 1/9/86)
                         Year-to-date: 24,590.70

      SIPB/SIPBADMIN Spending:    MTD: 602.42 
                                  YTD: 24,195.04
	No Fries on Me!
	How do we spend all our money?
	 1) open things to undergraduates: lots of work, confuse people
	      
	 2) let grads do thesis, shift one, etc (wcs is against this)

	 3) subsidize x9700 printouts (should still cost something...)

	Think about it...

	Chairman's Report:
 chairman is back but not officially here until tomorrow
 (discussion of sendmail... Henry walks in)
  Hold elections in middle of Spring, with year long terms.
	1) ability to train prospective officers
	2) gives seniors time to work on thesis
	3) freshman can vote on officers before they're sophomores
	  Henry: March 1st would be good to give freshman IAP to
		get acquainted 
  not too much objection: think about it for a week
  2/15  and 3/1 are suggested
  Chairman intends to write proposal to get machines in office this week
   Eva is on vacation (RF's upset) talk of terrorist actions to get modems
	installed in the student center before 2/1

  	Office Report:
	  Mac is at The COmputer Store (in Harvard Square) should
	be ready wednesday
	vt240 seems to work again
	aya says she is trying to get office manual compiled by end of
		IAP so people who said they'd help should check in
  
	Athena Report:
	Charon has new release (4.3 sources and binaries) lots of things 
	  broke (of course) (mail, scribe, etc.)
	Consultants have uVaxII they need RVD, so will probably use Apollo
	 for read-only user partition, we might be able to steal it for
	charon also and save us lots of space (80M?)

	Computer Services:
	 two multics lines seem not to work, other one is flakey.
	 
	Telecommunications Report:
	 We canceled our service contracts for the TTY43's (3 of them)
	  saving $618.40 for 1986

	Publications Report:
	 
	R/O Report:

	IAP Report:
	 good turnout for Unix internals (SRO in 36-372) 30-35 people
	  and growing
	Fenchurch (a uvaxII) is set up and running for the course
	 a very open machine for "special" assignments for the course
	 its RVD is two gateways away and is still not all that unreasonable

	Slash: network address shop, one level is MIT floor plan,
		sunglasses of warning, scroll labelled Boston Globe,
		Nymph is Shirly MacBay, Paul Gray is Wizard, put
		suggestions in Hack Notesfile on Charon.
	Other:
	  
	Other Other:

	The meeting was adjourned at 8:05pm.


	Minutes taken and submitted by plj.