Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 09/18/89


	The meeting was called to order at 19:30:00 by rfrench.
	
	In attendance were 
		Voting members: amgreene jik rfrench tron monkey
jcbourne bjaspan jh shahid jtidwell amdehon lnp qjb amehta dkk
		Associate members: srz 
		Non-voting members: 
		Prospectives: klee leira warlord cqc mlwiese
bigler.studentad masuchak
		Guests: kevles

	Treasurer's Report:

		LSC....

	CokeComm Report:

		There is Coke.  People are happy.

		Tentative numbers are also happy....

			Balance (as of this morning)    $353.99
			Total Deposits (on sheets)      $257.26
			Order Received (this afternoon) $154.54

		[ lnp ... masuchak ]

	Chairman's Report:

		New prospectives!!!

		masuchak (Mitesh A Suchak)

		[ qjb ... amehta ]

		klee (Klee)

	Office Report:

		vt100s are sittin' aroun'.  Let's move 'em to the top
of the cabinets.

		Let's get some markers for the whiteboard!  Yeah!
Wow!  Neat idea!

		Black cabinet is still in the hall.  Jik suggests
using it to distribute docs.  Would disappear too fast.  How about a
list of publications?  Let's experiment....  Kevles suggests Athena
free-docs as well.  She will arrange what she can.

		[ dkk ]
	
		[ larugsi (briefly) ]

		Kevles, as Athena liason to SIPB, has asked to be
added to the sipb-minutes list.  They're world-readable, so we might
as well add her.

	Athena Report:

		Nice little sun called theodore.mit.edu.  It likes to
knock off all the portmaps on bldg. 1 machines.  Another in 54.
Another in 1 thinks it's the gateway.  It's wrong.  CEG is losing.
Jik loves Athena.

		VS2000's have been panicking right and left.

		PitManager rides again!

	Computer Services:

		Jik has a beef to pick.  rrn died last week, because
new software was installed w/o keeping the old binaries and they had
to recompile the software.  gcc and pcc do not coexist pleasantly.
And the people who did the reinstallation then disappeared and when
they returned were rude to users who innocently queried when news
would be back.  Beacon is now running again (with reset pointers on
some large number of newsgroups).  (Flamage about responsibility to
provide services vs. volunteering.)

		Athena deactivated lots of charon accounts (kerberos,
hesiod, post-office).  Major lossage.

		The line in the deployment report about SIPB providing
fourth-floor services was "premature."

		jtkohl reformatted the Athens drive and added it to
the SIPB cell.  += 500M.

		At the next meeting, Rich Carreiro (Amiga Users Group)
will be here.

	Telecommunications Report:

		New modems and connections are rumoured to be planned.

		dialup3 is up and running.  The "unfortunate sarcasm"
in the dialup{,2} motd was removed at Ron Orcutt's request.  [``6.3B,
Athena's latest (but not greatest) release.'']

	Publications Report:

		q.v., supra.

		Lots of people have been taking Inessential Guides.

		qjb says "this week."

		Athena's on-line help (olh) is growing by leaps and
bounds.  We should try to get SIPB documentation added to it.  Sharon
is volunteered.  (Hi, Share! :-)

	Librarian Report:

		Fiche would be at our expense unless we are willing to
let the fichers keep it.  We can ask the provost or president's office
for a grant.

	R/O Report:

		It's dead, Jim.  Nuke it from orbit.  It's the only
way to be sure.

	IAP Report:

		October is IAP Planning Month.  Just thought you'd
want to know.

		Anand is here to ask about the C course that he was
volunteered for last week.  He's willing to teach it if he gets lots
of help.

		Will Athena do a LaTeX minicourse?  Kevles doesn't
know.  

	Other:

		Secretary is finally taking minutes on AFS.

		Ask about tinyMUD.  On second thought, don't.

		``You will discover, when working in your team
projects, that the most important thing in programming is knowing
whom to blame.''  - Guttag, 6.170

		Carol will be back for a week from 6 Oct (her bday).
Then she'll be gone until the end of November.

		Register panics on the pika machines.  Some public
machines lose as well.  (shifting to Athena report)

	Other Other:

		NYTimes started Vol. CXXXIX today and celebrated by
raising its price to 40 cents.  Thursday's issue will be Number 48,000.

		Very few prospectives tonight.  First week of classes
has taken its toll.

		Sunset was beautiful tonight.  We stood on the couch
and watched.

		G&SP has a cast of over 30.

	The meeting was adjourned at 20:23:02.


	Minutes taken and submitted by amgreene the wonderpup and
				       rfrench.