Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 09/17/2001


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

In attendance were 
	Voting members: tibbetts aatharuv arolfe fyfer kolya | nim alex_c
	Associate members: hartmans belmonte proven ingolia yak eichin |
		sly marc
	Non-voting members: 
	Prospectives: aletta xela mwp ike | kareid
	Guests: 

Treasurer's Report:
	sly: I'm almost free.

Chairman's Report:
	nim: I move that as a standing policy, SIPB hold elections at
		the end of meetings.
	<tibbetts seconds>
	yak: We shouldn't on the grounds that we should have fewer
		standing policies.
	hartmans: Is there a reason to do this in realtime?
	fyfer: I'm willing to do it by convention.  I'm not sure we need
		a policy.
	<nim withdraws motion>

	nim: I nominate aletta for membership.
	<fyfer seconds, aletta accepts>
	<6-0-0, election tentatively next week>

	fyfer: We need to replace the treasurer.
	tibbetts: I nominate everyone who can hold the position and
		decline myself.
	<yak seconds>
	fyfer: Anyone want to do it?
	<nim, alex_c, arolfe accept>
	tibbetts: Have any of you been treasurer of anything before?
	nim: I've been treasurer of several groups.  Never dealt with
		SAP.
	hartmans: Will you be unlame enough to keep thing in a
		consistent state?
	alex_c: I admit that I don't fully understand the
		responsibilities.
	nim: I will, but with some lag time.
	<arolfe declines now>
	sly: How do you feel about trekking to w92?
	nim: I work there.  I know who Jane is.	
	alex_c: I'm fine getting there and I know who Jane is.
	<nim 5, alex_c 2>

	fyfer: Now we need to elect 2 EC members at large.
	fyfer: Eligible members: aatharuv, alex_c, gif, golem.
	<aatharuv : 4, alex_c 6: , gif 0: , golem 4: >
	fyfer: Now we have a run-off between golem and aatharuv
	<aatharuv: 4, golem 3: > 
	<alex_c, aatharuv elected to EC>			

Office Report:

Office Cleaning Report:
	tibbetts: The office got cleaned.
	hartmans: The fish goes off every week?
	ingolia: On average, every four or five days.  It picks an hour
		to go off randomly and then waits until after than time
		when there are enough people in the office.
	hartmans: We have lots of staplers.  Do we need to allocate
		money for them?
	sly: We were a couple of dollars over.  When we get the actual
		bill, jhawk will beg for the difference.
	

MIT Computing Report:
	hartmans: There's been less of a network today.  5% packet loss
		to many places.  

Computer Services:
	hartmans: What's the status of the linux installer?
	tibbetts: No different than last meeting.  Still has a critical
		bug related to locales in some way that I can't sort
		out.
	aatharuv: I was working on a different approach to the linux
		installer.  quiche is currently a sort of layered
		machine.
	fyfer: alex_c was claiming that he was going to just write one.  

SIPB Backup Report:
	arolfe: AFS backups work.

Publications Report:
	proven: iAthena is out.  
	fyfer: I will deal.  I move to allocate $50 for 50 copies of
		iLaTeX.  
	<white ballot passes>
	[fyfer allocation: $50 for iLaTeX]

Orientation Report:

IAP Report:
	xela: IAP is sooner than you think.  If you have any interest in
		teaching, talk to alien or me.  We will arrange
		logistics for you.
	xela: Have we allocated money for IAP yet?
	fyfer: No, but I don't think we need to yet.

CokeComm Report:
	hartmans: Cokecomm should get candy.

Other:

Other Other:
	sly: I'm staff now.

The meeting was adjourned at 19:54.


	Minutes taken and submitted by arolfe.