Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 03/8/1999


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

In attendance were 
	Voting members: jered amu hartmans zacheiss kretch yak jmorzins
		gisele foley elliot sly | nygren yandros 
	Associate members: mycroft jweiss cat jdaniel jhawk mhpower belmonte 
		rjbarbal | srz kcr yoav jmmikkel
	Non-voting members: 
	Prospectives: int18 tibbets gamache mwp@mwpnet.com kilroi golem
		mrbonk lnemzer xela locutus ansbergc gemery kolya deberg |
		cfox eniels lyudmila nemo seph
	Guests: 

Treasurer's Report:
	foley: We have had remaining a couple thousand as of Jan. 31.
		There is not much left we can spend this fiscal year.
		I'll find out more details for next week.

Chairman's Report:
	'()

Office Report:
	yak: We have a lot of really old Mac books. Can I make them go away?
	jhawk: I'd like to see a list before they disappear.
	yak: Inside Macintosh Vol. 1-5 and ThinkC manuals.

	sly: I got us manuals from Academic Computing. I also got us 1999
		phone books. I'd be nice to get rid of 1998 ones.
	jhawk: Are these their only copies of these manuals, or extras?
	sly: They're from Alex, as far as I know some are duplicate
		and some are limited.  The Mathematica manual is the
		second on-campus copy owned by I/S.

	tb [through jhawk]: The transceiver that bill stuck under the table
		with the sticky stuff fell. Someone should find a better way
		to support it.

	zacheiss: The new scanner and CD burner arrived this week.
		They are awaiting the new machine to arrive.

	belmonte: steve-dallas' transceiver has been falling as well.

	jhawk: I got rid of the Dell monitor box I think we decided to
		get rid of. 

	jweiss: Auction after the meeting tonight.
		As the Office Czar in Charge of Special Operations I
		always feel empowered to get rid of old copies of
		phone books, although jhawk may object.

	jhawk: We got new filters. Some may not yet have been installed.
	jweiss will deal.
	mycroft: In the winter, the right wall unit puts out warm air,
		which seems poor so should be left off.

	jhawk: There's a building cooling shutdown on Thursday morning.
		We didn't request fans so people should be prepared to
		deal and turn off monitors Wednesday night. jweiss will
		keep us apprised of any machine room missions should they
		arrive.

Office Cleaning Report:
	kretch: It's randomized! It occurs once per week.

	elliot: The floor looks relatively clean.
	
MIT Computing Report:
	zacheiss: People have been reporting problems running MATLAB on 
		O2s. We think we tracked it to the license wrapper around
		the binaries. New binaries will go out into the locker 
		tonight. If anyone reports problems after tonight, I'm really
		interested in hearing about it.

Computer Services:
	'()

SIPB Backup Report:
	kretch: AFS will happen tomorrow.
	foley: I think 2 of UFS happened, but I've been out of town.

Publications Report:
	srz: We have 6 iLatex left.

	xela: Learning Perl came in, it's on the shelf, stamped.

Orientation Report:
	gisele: We need to submit our entry into the ASA Student Activities
		Directory by April 12. Would anyone like to make this
		happen? We can probably use what we used last year.
	lnemzer: I'll take care of it since I'm doing the directory
		anyways.

	lnemzer: Campus Preview Weekend is in a couple weeks. SIPB may
		want to do an unofficial event. April 8-11.
	gisele: People should think about this and we'll have a discussion
		over the week.

IAP Report:
	'()

Anniversary Report:
	gisele: We have a sucker to coordinate the Anniversary party. Her
		name is pipa, and she's going to need help. If she
		asks for help, give it to her.

CokeComm Report:
	jhawk: We have Dr. Pepper.
	jered: We have very little soda.
	elliot: We have no candy.

	jweiss: People should take cans and bottles down.

Other:
	hartmans: A frightening number of SIPB people have been asking
		database questions recently. I'm looking at ways to make
		it easier for people to play with software. You'll hear
		more in the future.

	hartmans: There are SIPB jersey orders in progress, people should
		order them. Mail was sent to sipb-office.

Other Other:
	jhawk: I bought a $780 Bob Eggleton painting this weekend.

	lnemzer: I'm running for UA Vice President. Online elections
		are from Wednesday (3/10) to Sunday (3/14), paper
		elections the following Monday (3/15). To vote
		online:  add ua; vote.

	rjbarbal: My company laid off 10% of its engineering department
		today including me. Does anyone know of any good MechE
		job openings?

	belmonte: At 7pm on Wednesday in 6-120, Junot Diaz will be
		reading from his book, "Drown."  This is proof that
		something good can come out of New Jersey.

	seph: This Thursday LSC has a free sneak of "Lock, Stock, and
		Two Smoking Barrels."

	elliot: I have my pictures of Japan developed, you can see
		them after the meeting.

	jhawk: IETF is next week.

	jdaniel: I managed to pull off graduating last month.

The meeting was adjourned at 19:48.


	Minutes taken and submitted by jered.