Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 28 April 1980

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

	In attendance were Richard Soley, CAH, GMP, RK, DGH, RMP,
		archy, KHS, RLL, NAHA, NML, JAY, WER, RDM, ZRM, BARMAR,
		HGA, and Gonzo.
	
		Late were:  DPC, Ghuber, and JIS.

	The minutes of the previous meeting were read and accepted.

	Treasurer's Report:  We have spent $10607 so far this month.
		DPC came in at this point.  We had some trouble this
		week with BayBank; they said that RLL was not an
		authorized signer, punted a CWBeane check, and did not
		put the money back in the account.  RK convinced them
		that they were wrong, they are correcting things.
		There was a motion to move our account to
		Cambridgeport Savings.  It Will Be Done.  GHuber came
		in at this point.  We have spent roughly $65,000 so
		far this year.

	***User Interrupt***
	Hayes, Tom, no amount, course syllabus, saving old exam
		questions from his course, learn text editing.
		He is an Lowell Institute instructor taking courses at
		MIT.  Deferred until after RMP helps him try to find
		other money.

	Chairman's Report:  The chairman was involved in representing
		Computing at MIT for some visiting professors from the
		University of Wales.  They seem interested in Multics.
		The chairman also had lunch this week with Dean
		Holden.  The new UAP, UAVP, and other assorted student
		government type people were also there.  There were
		discussions about the loss of course six's terminal
		room, text processing being on the increase, etc.  The
		chairman asked for another $95,000 budget for next
		year.  Also: next week are office elections!  Be
		there.  No campaigning will be allowed!  Mr. Charlie
		Hornig (CAH) was given (very belatedly) a gavel for
		his service as Chairman of the SIPB.

	Office Report:  There is a new pair of scissors.  HGA
		rearranged the books.  The office was found unattended
		and unlocked TWICE last week.  This Must Not Happen.
		Ancient applications were found in Limbo by DGH.  They
		will be attended to.  HGA came in at this point.  When
		someone calls in a gronked terminal, you MUST write a
		trouble report and Call It In If You Can!  When you
		note trouble about a terminal, put it with the
		(stapled together) old forms about that terminal.
		There are a lot of Spinwriter ribbons out; this is
		because they contain no more than enough for one or
		two pages.  There seem to be problems with the
		SIPBTEXT tools.  They will be looked at.  The office
		documentation is being garbage collected and replaced
		by CAH and HGA.  It was noted that we do not have an
		IBM Index to Publications.  This will be corrected.  

	***User Interrupt***
	SCEP called (now); they need another $100 in the "SCEP"
		account.  $50 was given to SCEP, $100 to SCEP1.

	Computer Services:  The Spinwriter software is being rewritten
		by CAH.  New documentation is on its way.  We will no
		longer be logged in csrlog, but in sipb_log.

	CS Report:  There was some discussion about the CS class
		mentioned two weeks ago (offered by CAH).  There will
		be a class Saturday, May 10 at 2:00 P.M., probably
		here.

	Telecommunications Report:  The Student Center LA36 is now
		working.  The LA120 is still dead.  A DEC repairman
		was here today, however.  The Student Center LA36 and
		Random House LA36 were switched this past week.  The
		dead Teleray in the student center is still in that
		state.  (The terminal is fine; the connection is
		dead.)  The New House terminal is broken.

	Publications Report:  The Emacs handout was printed.

	Publicity Report:  The LSC slide seems to have been a winner.
		JCG has a prototype Tech ad; it's on the board.  There
		were various suggestions such as LSC slides, handouts,
		and ads.  There are some suggestions on the board.

	Other:  There was an election for membership for Jay Pattin.
		There were 16 Full Active Members present.  The vote
		was 14 for, 0 against, and 2 abstentions.
		The changes in the Spinwriter software were affected
		during the meeting.  Honeywell announced new, cheaper,
		smaller, hardware last week.  Richard Barnes is
		leaving CISL.  CISL has job openings, possibly for the
		summer.  See CAH.

	Applications: 

	Dainius, Alfonsas A., MIT '71, no amount, to learn Fortran on
		Multics.  There was a motion to give $75 - passes.

	Plummer, David C. (DCP), known luser, $100, to finish Strobe
		Lab project.  Motion to give - passes.

	Sinclair, Ken H. (KHS), known luser, EC vote - was given $100
		more for optical design project.

	Nahabedian, Mark (NAHA), known luser, $75, for writing 4.901
		papers, letter to Paul Grey, and letter to Gov. King.
		Motion to give - passes.

	Wysocki, Joe, $100 Coop, for thesis.  Given.

		$2225 Student, $0 ECS; $2225 total autoed.
		$100 Coop
		$100 by EC vote.
		$0 VM
		$400 by meeting.
		Total: $2725   (not including Coop).

	Other Other:  JIS came in at this point.  There will be a
		Peking Duck feast tomorrow night; there is still room
		for a couple of people. 
		Marvin Minsky and his wife may soon become the
		houseparents of Bexley.  RLL will be moving on Friday.
		The SIPB was invited to DGH's and RMP's wedding.
		Discover magazine will be arriving soon.  (We are
		charter subscribers.)  There will be an open house on
		Saturday; CAH is coordinating IPC for this.  People
		willing to help should see CAH.  The SIPB itself will
		hold the usual closed house.  The rabid rings ('82
		Brass Rats) are in.

	The meeting was adjourned at 2218.
 
          Minutes taken and submitted by Richard Mark Soley.