Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 05/10/1999


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

In attendance were 
	Voting members: jered foley hartmans amu zacheiss yak gisele
	Associate members: jweiss belmonte tb eichin fastcart yonah 
		nocturne jhawk mhpower srz | leira 
	Non-voting members: 
	Prospectives: golem kolya johanna gemery dmaze kilroi nemo
		xela cyruse | alien
	Guests: 

Treasurer's Report:
	foley: I haven't resolved out the money yet.  If you need
		reimbursements, tell me or take them to Jane
		yourself.

Chairman's Report:
	hartmans: Move to nominate kolya.

	[seconds]
	hartmans: He's been working on news, it's cool to see a
		freshman, or anyone new, get involved with SIPB server
		maintainance.
	mhpower: We have some Ultra 60 servers that'll replace the
		current news servers, and kolya evaluated a number of
		software options and configured the software. He also
		worked on disk striping software, set up a test
		configutation, looked at a lot of technical details of
		how to have much better performance than with the old
		servers.
	[5-0-2, motion passes, elections next week]

Office Report:
	jhawk: zorp is suffering from massive repeated lossage,
		someone should take this up with Dell while we still
		can.

	zsachiess: hotline replaced steve-dallas' monitor today. It's
		better.

	fastcart: I wrote instructions for the CD recorder, they're
		attached to the recorder.

	dmaze: I put up the Summer LSC calendar.

	jweiss: There will be an auction after next week's meeting of
		old granola's CPU.

	zacheiss: The VRC16 on lnitp was dying last week, I replaced
		it with one from w20-spare-dec. We should get rid of
		the old one. [jweiss will deal]

Office Cleaning Report:
	jhawk: The fridge really needs cleaning.

MIT Computing Report:
	jhawk: 18.181 is now attacted to NW12-RTR, and there might be
		faster than 10 Mb/s unswitched service at some point
		in the future.

Computer Services:
	yonah: Almost half of the requests to www on friday
		and saturday came from a single host.

	belmonte: The high school CS course ended this past weekend
		after a very successful term. Thanks to bconnell, wkj,
		eklund@ll, dscott, and mhao, for helping out.  Special
		thanks to markl@math.harvard.edu who handled the class
		while I was out of town and to lyudmila who did a huge
		amount of grading, tutoring, and preparation.

SIPB Backup Report:
	nocturne: yandros was doing some UFS backups.

Publications Report:
	jhawk: I was unlame w.r.t. iLatex. Also, the last person who
		got copies of iLatex made copies of the 1995 version
		instead of the 1999 version, people should be careful
		with such things in the future.

	dmaze: There's a draft of iGnus behind cutter and in my home
		directory. People should bleed on it.

Orientation Report:
	'()
	
IAP Report:
	xela: It's IAP [Planning*] Month. People should think about what
		they want to teach and talk to me.

Anniversary Report:	
	gisele: zoz offered to help work on printing out invitations,
		people should volunteer to help distribute them. Talk
		to me after the meeting.

CokeComm Report:
	fastcart: pipa says she has $300.00 worth of coke in her car,
		for delivery to the office when she is less hosed.

	jweiss: Take down empties.
Other:

Other Other:
	fastcart: Technique is available.

	jhawk: Amtrak removed train names from Northeast Direct
		service in their 16 May timetable. If you think this
		is unfortunate, please give Martin Bodtmann in Amtrak
		Communications a call at +1 215 349 3323

	belmonte: I'm moving house on Saturday.  I'm looking for
		people to help.  Helpers will be provided with food
		and beer (or cola, if that's your preference).

	fastcart: Starwars opens next week.
	jhawk Tickets go on sale wendesday.

	golem: 6.111 final project presentations are Wednesday, and
		most of my project works!

The meeting was adjourned at 19:42.


	Minutes taken and submitted by jered.