Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of Monday April 24 2000.


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

In attendance were 
	Voting members: tibbetts, arolfe, cfox, nathanw, dmaze, sly,
		deberg, amu, gif, ingolia, kolya, golem, fyfer,
		gemery | keithw
	Associate members: ocschwar, zacheiss, kcr, jered, jweiss,
		belmonte, srz, jhawk | tytso, marc
	Prospectives: tivol, xela, aletta, mwp, bperrin, lnemzer,
		dbailey | nemo, goodell

Treasurer's Report:

	sly: I sent lots of people email, there are lots of things
		we allocated money for and didn't buy.	If you got email
		from me, please answer it.

Chairman's Report:

	'()

Office Report:

	jweiss: There's an auction after the meeting.

	jweiss: Move to at the discretion of the office czar in charge
		of special operations, to get rid of the empty disk
		enclosure.
	[white ballot motion passes]

	jweiss: move to get rid of, at the discretion of the office
		czar in charge of special operations, PC monitor that
		came on previous version of granola, that is reported
		to have intermittent flickering.
	[white ballot motion passes]

	jweiss: Ditto for the monitor that came with cj, which doesn't
		work with many frequencies.
	belmonte: We did last year buy an extra PC monitor.  Is it
		definately the case that we have no further use for them?
	tibbetts: The point is that it's a crappy monitor.
	[white ballot motion passes]

	jweiss: Ditto for the large sun monitor that came with the
		original deathtongue.  It's large and clunky, and taking
		up space.
	[white ballot motion passes]

	jered: Why is there still a router here?
	jhawk: I suck.

	jhawk: Does anyone know what happened to the ray0 card in zsr?

Office Cleaning Report:

	ingolia: There is now an office cleaning zephyr bot again.
	golem: It is not a fish, it has no authority.

MIT Computing Report:

	zacheiss: It's after drop date.  We can't do anything.

Computer Services:

	'()

SIPB Backup Report:

	zacheiss: I failed to do the UFS backups because the exabyte
		drive failed.  I hope this will make me deploy the
		DLT stacker.

Publications Report:

	fyfer: Everything but linux-athena but we know that should be low.

Orientation Report:

	lnemzer: SIPB's ad for the activities booklet is
		turned in.  There's a copy on the bulletin board (and
		in /afs/sipb/admin/text/ro/asad.tex), and it's not too
		late to make changes.  We can also do the mailing, in
		the freshman packages, for which we should allocate $50.


IAP Report:

	kcr: Are there ever any situations when there is something for
		both IAP report and RO report?

	jered: Like today for instance.

	kcr: I'm wondering whether an RO/IAP report might make sense.

CokeComm Report:

	'()

Other:

	jered: The dot is safe for the time being.

Other Other:

	jered: bsalz[@mediaone.net] sucks.

	fyfer: Why am I taking 6.170?

	ocschwar: Those who are cluless now should know that they have
		another 7 years before I turn 30.

	deberg: My thesis presentation and taxes are done, so I can
		delete windows from my laptop.

	kcr: I have something really cool in this box, but I won't show
		anyone unless I get pickled in tonight's auction.

	jered: I think there is a possibility of drinky bird deadlock.
	ocschwar: When they collide, they automatically adjust their
		phases.
	gif: The untaped drinky bird will quite literally back off.

The meeting was adjourned at 19:41.


	Minutes taken and submitted by cfox.