Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 02/3/92 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by jcbourne. In attendance were Voting members: mhpower jcbourne yandros jik marc blubaron wes warlord bjaspan mhbraun (via phone) dcctdw Associate members: amgreene srz ckclark proven raeburn jcb tytso leira cjsmith jis | wesommer Non-voting members: Prospectives: smit shabby mcmullan tlyu rjbarbal padrelou mkgray sethg valerie bert | sidlives mosquito Guests: katzchen Treasurer's Report: '() Chairman's Report: Anchor pads? jcbourne will talk to Kathy Allen, and try to convince her that we really don't need them. Questioning the nominees (mcmullan, mkgray, tlyu, rjbarbal, sethg, mosquito): Q: Who is jis and why should you care? sethg-A: (not recorded here) Q: How do you give out a VMA account? mkgray-A: There's a drawer. They need a reason. mcmullan-A: interactive BITNET access is an acceptable reason Q: The power flickers. What do you do? tlyu-A: If the power goes off, turn off the power switches on the Athena machines. right-A: Don't touch Athena machines unless told to do so by Athena Ops. Q: Name two machines that haven't been named? A: (they answer) Q: Name a SIPB service and the machine it's on? follow-up-Q: What are the three Athena news machines? webster -- portnoy random muds -- milo Q: Name all types of media that we can read in office? exabyte 5.25" floppy NeXT disks 3.5" floppy (missed: quarter-inch tape) Q: jik holds up a machine. What's its name? right-A: The Airplane Q: Pick three people, give real names, usernames, and whether they are SIPB members? A: (it proceeds without error) Q: How to transfer file to Macintosh disk? rjbarbal-A: doesn't know real-A: The Mac has FTP. Q: How to transfer file to PC disk? mkgray-A: dosread, doswrite real-A: for 3.5" disk, use OS/2 The Q: mcmullan-A: He likes helping people and this is a great bunch. sethg-A: Useful, and hang on to account. rjbarbal-A: Feels comfortable, help people. mkgray-A: Help people and learn things. tlyu-A: "Usual reasons", and great place to hack. mosquito-A: It's a continuation of what I've done as a prospective. The tally: (7 yes votes required) mcmullan 10-1 0A member sethg 5-5 1A not a member rjbarbal 8-3 0A member mkgray 10-1 0A member tlyu 7-2 2A member mosquito 9-1 1A member jik asks srz why he notified all of SIPB about use of the "ec" zephyr class to discuss a problem involving the IRC network. srz doesn't want the "ec" class to be a normal method of EC discussions. tytso believes the wrong decision was reached and a better decision could have been reached if the discussion had been more open. jik does not want his conversations with other EC members to be considered a "meeting". There will be a Whither SIPB meeting on Thursday night, 7:30 P.M., location TBA. Office Report: The rugs are being washed starting at 11:30 tonight. The books that ckclark was going to purchase have, in fact, been purchased. (They're on the bookshelf.) yandros asks about subscribing to the journal "The X Resource". $65 per five issues. Shall we try it for a year? The vote passes. MIT Computing Report: jis is here. This time, the Athena-release process will be based on "requirements". The "Athena Requirements Team" is looking for good suggestions for the 7.4 release that SIPB "endorses". jcb suggests brainstorming in the SIPB-Project-Ideas discuss meeting, and then reaching a decision two weeks from today. eichin volunteers to prepare the report. Shall we endorse certain ideas sent to "software suggestions"? Yes. Computer Services: jik suggests a meeting about the problems on the IRC network, immediately following this meeting. There was a memory upgrade to bloom-picayune, to 24Mb. Were there problems in SIPB cell releases? Yes, but it has been corrected. SIPB AFS Cell Backup Report (was "Ronald-Ann Backup Report"): warlord has finished it. Publications Report: rjbarbal copied the documentation that we needed. Shall we be revising the discuss documentation? R/O Report: '() IAP Report: '() CokeComm Report: There's not much variety. jik does not like warm grape soda. Other: '() Other Other: jis is playing Tetris on a calculator. warlord has a new phone number. It's in ~/.address. eichin has the SVR4 Mouse Driver Administrator's Guide, which we've been needing for a long time. The meeting was adjourned at 20:54. Minutes taken and submitted by mhpower.