Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 08/26/91 The meeting was called to order at 19:30:00 by jcbourne. In attendance were Voting members: mhpower jtidwell marc erikkay jcbourne gamadrid bjaspan | warlord mjbauer Associate members: ambar dcctdw raeburn cjsmith rls Non-voting members: Prospectives: ckclark rei wolvie shadow mosquito proven peace jhbrown | mcmullan kest padrelou Guests: Treasurer's Report: He's not here. Chairman's Report: She is here. (Although marc did try to usurp her.) Announcement: Elections for outstanding nominations will be on the 16th. [Look these up] Also, a new secretary will be elected then since gamadrid is no longer a student. Evil Bill and Ted Report: Don't you wish you knew what they were up to? Office Report: We need volunteers to put the office back when they are done with the A/C. The Phys. Plant guy claims they will be done tomorrow. (Much coughing [fnord] in the office.) There is a cart sitting int he back of the office that the soda jerk used to bring in the Coke. MIT Computing Report: 7.3M was supposed to go out Wednesday. Expect it any time now. Next thing you know, you'll have a dashboard. :) Computer Services: Move to terminate. Seconded. news has been up for most of the past week. Wow! ambar says that someone should go in and kick picayune. Some dude wants an account. Do we want to give it to him? This leads to some questions about making /afs ftp'able from charon. I think it was decided to just put a mountpoint in the ftp dir to the stuff he wanted. [warlord comes in. All hail Big Brother.] [mcmullan came in somewhere around here, too.] Atalanta is dead. The afs2nfs translator no longer runs. Might the sipb want to provide ftp access to /afs. Do we have hardware that could stand the strain? amgreene volunteers marc to work with him on this. Do we want to upgrade our machines to 7.3M simultaneously with the rest of the world, or out of synch? Much wishy-washy hemming and hawwing. No decision. [A couple of new international looking types come in and look around.] [kest walks in.] mhpower wants to get vendor documentation in the office for public use. [The international types leave.] "It's something to consider, but I don't think it's something that critical" -- jcbourne. marc points out that all the docs are on-line. mhpower disagrees. He points out things like tutorials. People seem generally unexcited. We still haven't gotten our RS/6000. ckclark asked probe about it, and probe didn't really know. Ronald-Ann Backup Report: No tape drive, no backup. Will cloning happen? warlord will do it remotely. Publications Report: Any changes to Iness Guide? Probably. A section about getting rid of dash, perhaps? We need new copies of things REAL QUICK. The froshlings will be arriving soon, and transfers have already been in asking about getting accounts, etc. R/O Report: Clearinghouse starts Fri. warlord asks people to come. The tours will happen. jis will be telling stories. We will have a Confusion entry. jtidwell needs help postering. They are happening a week from Thurs. jtidwell also needs six shepherds for the frosh. Send email to jtidwell if you want to be a shepherd. Tours will be happening. Midway? What are we taking? So we're taking the Mac and the NeXT since they're standalone? warlord makes a suggestion about putting packs on the NeXT floptical. Let's discuss the issue via email. IAP Report: '() CokeComm Report: We have Coke. warlord thinks the new sheets are confusing. jcb will be changing them soon. Other: Are the minutes still going to the is-minutes meeting. Do we want them going there? A straw-poll. The abstains have it, but the nays outvote the aye's. is-minutes has been removed from the sipb-minutes list. Other Other: amgreene and TCA thank sipb for the use of the office and present the sipb with a copy of HowToGAMIT XXIII. ambar says that everyone should call gamadrid "cutie." [secretary's note: I could have left this out, but my sense of being a good secretary makes me leave it in. :-P] anyone interested in being a MOYA leader, there is a training meeting tomorrow. Talk to dcctdw. MOYA is a self-confidence building thing for the frosh that is something like the ropes phys ed class. The meeting was adjourned at 20:03:52. Minutes taken and submitted by gamadrid.