Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 12/26/94


	The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by sorokin.

	In attendance were 
		Voting members: warlord ghudson sorokin mwhitson
		Associate members: mhpower marc yandros jweiss
		Non-voting members: 
		Prospectives: aragorn
		Guests: mycroft@ai.mit.edu

	Treasurer's Report:

		She's not here.  She'll be back on the 29th.

		ghudson wants to buy 4-6GB of disk for news from the
			equipment budget.  Other major likely expense
			is a Sparc 5 for the office.  He has asked
			gjackson for details about the Sparc 5, in
			order to get a cost estimate.

	Chairman's Report:

		She's here.  She's rushing the meeting an awful lot.

	Office Report:

		sorokin: Mike washed the blanket and couch pillow
			covers.  They look much better.  Various
			people cleaned the office a few days ago, so
			it looks a little bit less like a pit.
			Jonathan cleaned the fridge just before the
			meeting.

		ghudson: We're missing a machine room keycard.  (We
			were this morning.)

		abbe: we need new coatracks.  [Actually, the coatracks
			have been fixed.]

		yandros: People who did wiring this term should clean
			 up their wires.

	MIT Computing Report:

		jweiss: Hopefully, the 7.7 patch release will come out
			for testing this week.

	Computer Services:

		ghudson: sipb-server-1 has moved to 18.70 and is now
			opus.  It's also running a news server, for
			testing purposes.

		ghudson: ronald-ann has moved to 18.181 and is now
			ronald-ann2.  We will be moving the data on
			rosebud to it, probably starting tomorrow.

		ghudson: We will be reorganizing the machine room at
			12:01am tomorrow morning.  There will be an
			outage for all of our services.

		warlord: We should consider upgrading to AFS 3.3a
			soon; probe is testing it.

		mhpower: klee is, strangely, no longer on the usenet
			mailing list, as of the middle of this month.

	SIPB Backup Report:

		mhpower: Backup is in progress, expected tofinish
			before midnight.

		jweiss: Thinks we need more iLaTeX.  

	Publications Report:

		ghudson requests money for 50 copies of Getting
			Started With NetBSD on MITnet.  Passes
			(white ballot).  Greg will deal.  He'll also
			get 50 copies of iLaTeX (white ballot).

	R/O Report:

	IAP Report:

		ghudson: The NetBSD class has a room, 3-133 except on
			 Tuesday, when it's 6-120.

	CokeComm Report:

		dkk got us some Coke.

	Other:

		mhpower: Jeff Koffler released a multithreaded news
			 server in binary form for Windows NT.

	Other Other:

		Mary Chung is going to open this week.  Jessie has to
			buy Marc dinner.

		mhpower: They're no longer playing the Simpsons at the
			 Coffeehouse.  Yay.

	The meeting was adjourned at 19:38:00.


	Minutes taken and submitted by ghudson.