Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 09/01/86 The meeting was called to order at 19:33 by spook. In attendance were Voting members: spook, pww, irene, bcn, livia, chariot Associate members: shahid, jis, aya Non-voting members: Prospectives: jean-marie diaz, henry mensch, ike chuang Guests: Treasurer's Report: Treasurer is touring Boston with lost frosh. Chairman's Report: Mumble. Cliff's leaving this weekend, so there's a Mary's outing on Friday for people who want to wish him well and wish him off. At 2115 GMT (5:15 for normal people). Chairman has been volunteered to get req. for Inessential Guide. Elections for Jean & Henry: Random questions. Responses to THE question: Henry: This is going to require thought... I'm going to learn a hell of a lot more here than at Athena. I may even be useful. Jean: Because it's here. She can hack BSD here as opposed to System V. They're elected. Office Report: Office is generally cleaner, thanks to many cleaning, like Irene, Peter and Ken. Definitely not moving. We need to do something about Chairs. Search is on for an office manager. Simson may or may not have a class at night. Athena Report: Chairman sent Lerman mail about SIPB workstations. Athena is not going RVD for user files -- using removable media instead. Essential Workstation will be out soon. Simson is working on Rmail <-> MH conversions. SIPB mailing list disappeared from Athena somehow... chair working on reentering people. Computer Services: [Chairman drops gavel]. They're still here. Telecommunications Report: Mac needs service contract (Applecare). Vt100 is acting up. Signs need putting up for logging onto systems. Printers need to be hauled away. No word on 258-SIPB (Chun is not here). Publications Report: Inessential guide is awaiting Ken. R/O Report: It's here. We need people to pass out handouts advertising the tour at the Academic Midway on Wednesday from 1:30 to 3:30. Don't talk about SIPB there. Tour is that evening at 7:30, leaving from 10-250. Information is being taped to the table. Scheduling is getting done tomorrow. We need shepherds, but we don't have any sheep dogs. Woof. [jis walks in. Random flaming] Activities midway on Thursday. Ken, Livia, and Henry M. volunteer to be there at (besides Stan). Will get posters there. Will bring PC portable, Macintosh, Laserwriter, and Simsong tape punch. IAP Report: Far enough away. Other: Simsong walks into SIPB meeting. We inform him that we're electing Jean & Henry. He asks "Where's Jean?". We point her out. Other Other: This is Cliff's last SIPB meeting. The meeting was adjourned at 2041 est. Minutes taken and submitted by srz.