Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 8802.01


	The meeting was called to order at 19:36 by raeburn.
	
	In attendance were 
		Voting members: raeburn, carol, monkey, kerr, srz,
cheshire, balamac, gfitz, wesommer, robbie, amdehon, tndonahue,
jtkohl, amgreene, mer
		Associate members: carolyn
		Non-voting members: 
		Prospectives: ayshames, linda cordella, jeff plum
		Guests: 

	Treasurer's Report:

bleah, bleah, bleah... went to see robocop...  violence!!  

carol made a deposit as a prospective treasurer.

	Chairman's Report:

officer and execcom elections next week.  eligible members, etc will be sent out
after the meeting.  

jtkohl nominates jonathan kamens for membership and it's seconded.
srz nominates arlene and it's also seconded.  these elections will
take place the week after officer elections, so as to alleviate the
election hassle next week.

one of the admistrivial offices around 10-250 borrowed a terminal and
300 baud modem because at&t decided to remove theirs.  they were
incredibly grateful and told jim bruce so.

on friday, some people are meeting with jim bruce re the grad student
issue, which is becoming critical.  srz says we're getting ~100 grad
student accounts.

chair turned in his 9.01 paper, so he won't fail it.  (5am on jan
31st)  yay!

	Secretary's Report:

this is the second to last time i'll be doing this, so i'd like to
say, "so long and thanks for all the times".  as a recommendation, it
should be someone who really gets a kick out of taking minutes, enough
to come to meetings.

	Office Report:

carla's not here.  

foo.

	Athena Report:

rebooted fileservers yesterday morning and installed a new kernal.

some reporter came in looking for the highest ranking sipb member
today.  he was looking for athena dirt.

the 5.6 bug release should be in staff testing in a week or two.
they're really going to take their time with 6.0, trying for
quality...  5.6 should fix the scribe database so we can get the
scribe server from multics and onto vma.

	Computer Services:

xerox print server:  8700 has some peculiarities that prohibits the
use of the server until the 5.6 release.  output will be shuttled from
w91 therefore.  during the day, this is not too bad.

brian has volunteered to do bloom beacon backups, etc.  jeff has to
come up with a rmt tape for this so that brian can do this.

re mac:  mark eichin has been working on a development environment
that seems to be workable now.  problem is, only he knows how to use
it.

micro computer center mac printserver is now in 11-226.

	Telecommunications Report:

amdehon:  got call from 6.001 head ta.  want to make course material
available to students with home computers through athena.  the bulk of
it will probably be through ibmpc's and macs.  andre said we could
keep the current week's problem set on our mac.

tca requested borrowing a micro to run a nutritional analysis program
during a blood drive.  this would be a one day loan of the portable
pc.

suggestion box stuff: this is trying to be revived.

geshundheit!

	Publications Report:

inessential guide: didn't get sections on time, so jtkohl didn't do
this.  the discuss section in particular is nonexistent.

	R/O Report:

antipodal

	IAP Report:

gameover

	Other:

classes.  6.311 was cancelled from underneath balamac and amdehon.

	Other Other:

two times 5 hands are entwined actively in mary's hair.  this seems to have
become a habit among certain sipb members.

washington redskins won the superbowl with a 42-10 against the denver broncos.

	The meeting was adjourned at 20:16.


	Minutes taken and submitted by mer! (surprise :-)