Minutes of the SIPB Meetings of 26 December 1988 and 02
January 1989.

	The meeting was called to order at 19:45 02 January 1989 by
	opus.

	In attendance were 
		Voting members: opus, cheshire
		Associate members: raeburn, cjsmith, wesommer, jtkohl
		Non-voting members: 
		Prospectives: 
		Guests: 

	Treasurer's Report:  Slogging through Christmas?

	CokeComm Report:  Slogging through shopping malls.

	Chairman's Report:  Slogging through DC.

	Office Report:  Slogging.

	Athena Report:  Jeff discovered that SMS wouldn't be available
on 01 January, due to a bug in the date-interpretation software in
Ingres.

	Computer Circuses:  Default.

	Telecommunications Report:  Mary's phone number is unlisted.
(Mary Vogt, not Mary Chung.)

	Publications Report:  Gave out one copy of Inessential LaTeX
all week.  Didn't send out Christmas cards.

	R/O Report:  R/O???  Getting closer....

	IAP Report: Getting further away?  (No, wait, scratch
that....)

	Other:  Laserwriter has slowed to one page every three days.
Well, okay, so it was turned off most of the time....

	Other Other:  Yawn.

	If it's 7:30, and no one's in the SIPB office, does a meeting
	get held?

	The meeting was adjourned at 7:51.

	Meeting for 02 January convened at 7:52.

	Treasurer's Report: slogging through the new year

	CokeComm Report: may put in new order if we're all very lucky.
               would be happier if people were less messy with Coke that
               is in storage.

	Chairman's Report: ask him tomorrow

	Office Report: still here...

	Athena Report: still there....

	Computer Services: when is our NEXT machine coming??

	Telecommunications Report: still there...

	Publications Report: as there as it ever was...

	R/O Report: not all there...

	IAP Report: not here yet...

	Other: Ken was talking to Ron Orcutt, who is Athena's person who is
in charge of licensing stuff, about if SIPB can hold copyrights.  Not clear 
that this is possible...  

       Also, it is not clear whether we can randomly redistribute software
outside of MIT without going through the Technology Licensing Office.

      Ron found these questions interesting and will be talking to TLO people
anyway so he will let Ken know about these....

	Other Other: 
          Mary thinks everyone should take Shotokan karate over IAP, or else!
          John Kohl says there will be random ski trips this IAP.
          CarolYN got a CD player for christmas. pingpingping.

	The meeting was adjourned at 8:02 PM.

	Minutes taken and submitted by raeburn, and maybe cjsmith if
she gets finished with Tetris in time. (she did).