Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 08/23/1999 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by gisele. In attendance were Voting members: jered sly zacheiss jfmurphy yandros yak gisele | aurora Associate members: jonmon tb jweiss belmonte tytso abbe fastcart rjbarbal mhpower | jhawk mycroft marc Non-voting members: Prospectives: xela cmceniry arolfe nemo mwp dmaze lgdean | fyfer hforh Guests: Treasurer's Report: jhawk: The treasurer went to go get a motorcycle from his grandmother. [Not really; although he is visiting his grandmother and trying to get a motorcycle.] Chairman's Report: gisele: There will be some elections coming up in the next few meetings. My objective in scheduling when things happen is that we don't want to scare off incoming frosh with long meetings, but we have a lot of elections to get done. I'd like to schedule elections for the nominees that we have to happen before reg day, that way they'll have been students for a whole term before we have elections in February and they will be eligible to be officers. The next week or two we will have elections for membership for people who have been nominated. The meeting following that (after reg day) we will need to have EC elections to replace at least 3 EC members who will no longer be students. If you would like to nominate people who could be officers in February, you should nominate them tonight. I would like to nominate lgdean for membership. [sly seconds, lgdean accepts] She's running SIPB tours for the second year, she's a good teacher and helps people out in the office a lot. [7-0-0, motion passes] yandros: Move to nominate dmaze for membership. [jfmurphy seconds, dmaze accepts] [7-0-0, motion passes] sly: I'd like to nominate fyfer for membership. She does a lot of stuff for webmaster, queue work that the rest of us are too lazy to do, and she's good with users. [gisele seconds, fyfer accepts] [8-0-0, motion passes] Office Report: jweiss: The filter people seem to be more confused than usual. I'm working on it. fastcart: The video cards (Matrox G200s) for snork and anti-snork have been ordered. They're backordered, so they'll show up sometime in September. marc: Move to allocate $100 for Stroustrop's C++ book and another C++ book to be chosen by me. If you any suggestions, talk to me. [sly seconds] [12-1-2, motion passes] mycroft: Move to allocate $100 to augment our tool collection with magnetic screwdrivers. [tb seconds] abbe: Amendment to get a screwdriver magnetizer for $5 instead? tb: I'd rather have separate magnetized and non-magnetized screwdrivers. [white-ballot, motion passes] yandros: jhawk handed me 2 copies of Microsoft Office 2000 for use with the Linux and NetBSD machines we got from Dell. They will be back by deathtongue if anyone has ideas for them. jweiss: Move to get rid of at the discretion of the Office Czar in Charge of Special Operations the CPU formerly known as planet-zorp. [white-ballot, motion passes] jweiss: Does anyone know who belongs to the golf club that is in the office, and if it is still in the office? I will be working to get rid of items that do not belong in the office. If you have any personal items in the office that are not in your drawer, please move them before I do. fastcart: Is it possible to get the tape robot moved elsewhere? gisele: Yes, that will happen. yak: I'm playing with disk drivers on milquetoast. milquetoast is not for reliable data storage. Office Cleaning Report: gisele: I declared it office cleaning hour when I was in the office the other day since the bot is nonfunctional, and people cleaned. fastcart: Please try to make sure there's path from the door to the back of the office for my cart. MIT Computing Report: '() Computer Services: sly: If people haven't noticed, www.mit.edu is now mirroring the MIT web.mit.edu top level page. I/S has asked for the hostname www.mit.edu and we're working on getting the right people into a meeting to get the transition process going. If you have any questions talk to me. jweiss: Server maintainers interested in buying server hardware this fiscal year (ending June 2000) should think about what they want to buy and send mail. I'm being asked for a budget. SIPB Backup Report: zacheiss: I did UFS last week. AFS did not happen as the DLT drive is dead. Publications Report: fyfer: There appear to be plenty. rjbarbal: If anyone knows where the office rock is, please let me know; it might be useful for holding down the freshman info packets so they stay in place. [Other suggestions on how to contain the pocket protectors is welcome.] Orientation Report: jweiss: Look around. gisele: alien's not here, but she's dealing with Activities Midway and I'm helping her out. It would be nice to have volunteers to help man the table. We'll need to bring some machines down. It's Tuesday the 31st, from 6:30 to 9pm. Send mail to me and alien@mit.edu to volunteer. lgdean: For tours, we should allocate money for food and posters. gisele: The food allocation happened already. lgdean: I move to allocate $50 for making copies of posters for tours. jhawk: Try not to make them white. [xela seconds, white ballot, motion passes] IAP Report: xela: it's IAP Planning Planning Planning month still. CokeComm Report: fastcart: Someone bought some Nantucket Nectars. jweiss: People should take down empties. Other: jonmon: A friend of mine at a biotech company is trying to connect a Netscape plug-in on a Mac with a remote Oracle server. They've written Java code to do it, but it doesn't quite work. If any hacker who knows Java and can deal with a Mac wants a two-day high-paying job, email me at jonmon@mit.edu. tb: There are four Vaios in the office. Other Other: lgdean: David watched me strip this morning. jered: I got my eyes fixed. (LASIK) mycroft: Cirque du Soleil was cool. Lilith Fair was cool. You should all go to Toronto. abbe: I hold in my hands photographic evidence that a SIPB member is in the Croatian military. tb: Ottawa is cool too. tytso: Learning to fly is cool. dmaze: San Jose is less cool, but you can go visit elliot. fastcart: People are already sleeping on couches in the 5th floor lounge. jweiss: On this coming Saturday night is the Boston by Bike at Night bike ride. It's a lot of fun and you should go on it. if you are a HAM an interested in going, talk to me. The meeting was adjourned at 19:54. Minutes taken and submitted by jered.