Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 02/25/91 The meeting was called to order at 19:30:02 by jcbourne. In attendance were Voting members: mhpower web bjaspan jik dkk jcbourne gamadrid Associate members: dcctdw srz rls jtkohl eichin jcb Non-voting members: Prospectives: erikkay proven len18 rlcarr ckclark slippery mjbauer tjwu aki Guests: Treasurer's Report: Treasurer is here, but doesn't want to be here, but he's so busy, he forgot to leave. He doesn't know when he's making peanut butter cookies. Chairman's Report: Two elections were scheduled for tonight, but we don't have quorum. They are rescheduled for next week. We are going to start posting an agenda on the board. This way people can put things on the agenda and they won't be forgotten. Also, people will know what is going on at the meeting so they can show up. :-) len18 is nomininated for membership. Voted and passed. Add one more the list of people to elect. Let's rehash the rules for prospectives. They are _encouraged_ to answer questions. This includes answering the phone. Basically, you should pretend you are a member, and eventually, we'll nominate you and you'll be a member. Some members (who used to be prospectives) expressed concern that this is never spelled out to the prospectives. Don't let people steal bloom-beacon. (clean up the office.) Office Report: It's hot and crowded. Phys Plant has been called. There is a whiteboard in the office. It has a broken leg. Turns out, it's not ours. Let's fix it and put it back in the hall. jcb and dcctdw "volunteer" to fix it and put it back in the hall. It's a pit. web suggests that we start cleaning up our food and drinks, or we stop allowing food in the office. We should all start flaming each other if we catch them leaving food. There are too many chairs in the office. We need to get rid of some of them. We shouldn't donate any of the "Athena" chairs. Perhaps they should go back in the cluster. (eichin says: Gee, where can we find a cluster?) The handset on one of the phones is broken. It has been reported to 3-help. Hopefully, something will be done. Please clean up if you spill something on a machine. (We could go see the Care Bears movie.) MIT Computing Report: It has been sort of boring lately. The ai lab name server was screwed up this morning. Computer Services: BITNET stuff. See mhpower's mail message sent to the sipb list. (no food left in the office to rot and grow things). Basically, there is a new discuss meeting on bloom-beacon. mhpower is sort of on discuss-wait. Do we want a high-density disk-drive for the Mac? Do we want an upgrade or an additional floppy. Vote taken to approved $450 for the floppy upgrade. Many in favor. None were opposed. Vote taken to allow up to $600 for a new floppy (not the upgrade). Some in favor. None were opposed. What about getting the new PostScript red book? What's going on with it. (clean up after yourselves) Didn't we decide to get it? How about the black book? If someone will do this, it _has_ been approved. milo has a 68040 brain now. It is faster. Ronald-Ann Backup Report: jik did it. Publications Report: We're need more Iness LaTeX. rlcarr and slippery will deal. Does the Iness LaTeX need to be changed to explain changing TEXINPUTS to use the sipb locker, or not? (no glob left in the keyboards) Wait 'til next week. Is the format of fonts directories changing? We will need to document this. R/O Report: Nada. IAP Report: de rien CokeComm Report: thanks to rls and jik for helping to take cans to LaVerde*s. "Put the cans for the stuff that makes you burp and fart in the big box by the door."---jcb Other: hp and sun are getting together for a submission to the object-management group. there is no other other Other Other: jik saw a zephyr conversation today: One user: I got an error message that said my po-box is locked and I should wait a few minutes and try again. What does this mean. Another user: It means you should wait a few minutes and try again. First user: Boy do I feel like an idiot. dcctdw has made playing cards. they are kinda weird. Today is the last day of the Bugs Bunny film festival at the Somerville Theatre. There is no other other other. The meeting was adjourned at 20:02. Minutes taken and submitted by gamadrid.