Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 02/10/92 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by jcbourne. In attendance were Voting members: jcbourne mhpower mkgray tlyu dcctdw jik bjaspan marc web warlord mhbraun amdehon wes sli Associate members: srz raeburn rjbarbal amgreene ckclark proven rls jcb jtidwell tytso yandros | leira Non-voting members: Prospectives: rei sidlives smit padrelou shabby bert Guests: Treasurer's Report: The treasurer hasn't yet updated the documentation file for the treasurer's job, but he will eventually. Chairman's Report: jcbourne sent mail to Kathy Allen about anchor pads. Kathy will bring it up with jdb. tytso tells us that a lot of private clusters have chosen to ignore the archor-pad recommendation. Elections! Votes: Chairman: warlord nominated. 5 mhpower nominated. 1 web nominated. 8 web is now the chairman! Votes: Vice Chairman: warlord nominated. 8 mhpower nominated. 4 jik nominated. 2 warlord is now the vice chairman! Votes: Treasurer: mhpower nominated. 8 marc nominated. 6 mhpower is now the treasurer! Votes: Secretary: marc nominated. 10 warlord (not nominated) 1 /dev/null (not nominated) 1 abstain 2 marc is now the secretary! EC Members-at-large: Votes: bjaspan 12* blubaron 3 dcctdw 7* jcbourne 9* jik 10* mhbraun 10* mkgray 6 monkey 1 mosquito 2 tlyu 1 wes 5 andre 2 sli 2 Push to EC meeting: (And it's public!) jik moves to approve new officers. wes seconds. vote is 7-0-0. damn. wes moves to close meeting. marc seconds. Pop back to SIPB meeting. Another Whither SIPB meeting. amgreene will send out a list of new points, etc. People should volunteer to write proposals. We'll have another meeting in about 1.5 weeks. Office Report: "I suck, ok?" -web When the Sun gets here, we want to move milo over to where rosebud was, and put the sun where milo is. Straw poll decides to call the new machine deathtongue. Hey Richard, odie has "tongue" as an alias. Interested in giving it up? :-) Introductions go all around. The laserwriter output tray is broken. It's currently being held together with duct tape. Should we move the lw? yes. There's an illegal game on the mac. Do we want to buy it? It may not be illegal. MIT may have a site license for After Dark. If it's free, we keep it. If not, we don't. MIT Computing Report: All users on athena-po-[12] have been moved to po6. Computer Services: The Alumni Office has a matching grants program with DEC. This means when DEC employees donate to MIT, DEC matches it dollar for dollar. Expiring end of this or next month, DEC will let them take cash, or hardware at an 80% discount. Perhaps right now is a good time to follow up on the alumni server thing. warlord and marc will contact fxzane, follow-up soon. mhbraun has been looking into the lack of a serious CAD program on Athena. According to Anne Lavin , Athena is evaluating AutoCAD for use on Athena, but this will take a while to finish. If you have any ideas for CAD programs, mail mhbraun. picayune will be going down to install the new disk. There's a new DELNI for the SIPB's use in the machine room. rosebud has been moved, the rest should be soon. SIPB AFS Cell Backup Report (was "Ronald-Ann Backup Report"): We are having technical problems. Please stand by. Other than that, things are progressing. Publications Report: mkgray and tlyu want to make a real document out of their handout from their IAP course on hacking .zwgc.desc. bleed on ckclark's mail handlers one-page. R/O Report: '() IAP Report: '() CokeComm Report: We have coke. jcb recently redid coke sheets. CokeComm Account Status as of midnight Saturday 8 February 1992 Accounts: Current People: +$581.63 People who aren't around much: +$20.20 -------- Total Liabilities: +$601.83 Value of Inventory: Sodas: +$172.80 Juice: + $58.50 Water + $3.90 Cups: + $2.35 -------- Total: +$237.55 Cash on Hand: +$592.23 Total Assets: +$829.78 Profit (Assets - Liabilities): +$227.95 Other: '() Other Other: Alex Haley (author of "Roots") died. Deadline for registering to vote in the primary is tomorrow. The jik chick isn't here this week. But jik reports that she enjoyed herself last week, despite not understanding anything. (Further discussions are judged inappropriate for family consumption.) jik discovered that the terse messages on the voice mail are terse. amgreene states that it's a pity jik didn't change to terse mode. vote 8-1-4 to put jik in terse mode by default. Who has root bits on jik? Ask the jik chick. Welcome back rls. The meeting was adjourned at 20:33. Minutes taken and submitted by mhpower and marc.