Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 08/24/92 The meeting was called to order at 19:30:05 by dcctdw. In attendance were Voting members: bjaspan autumn dcctdw mhpower marc sidlives Associate members: proven cjsmith probe opus rls srz eichin rjbarbal | raeburn Non-voting members: Prospectives: tada jweiss bert | jhbrown Guests: Treasurer's Report: Last week, we told yandros to ask Kathy about office supplies, but we haven't heard back. Chairman's Report: Chair is not here. Vice is running the meeting. No prospectives, but they'll be here this week. Mike Zehr is here because he is interested in helping out with computer stuff on campus, and he knows sipb is a good place to do that sort of thing. He's been around MIT for about 10 years and works in Kendall Square. Office Report: The carpet was VAXed. It's not obvious anymore. Coke can be cleaned up, but Hawaiian punch cannot. It should be banned from the office and nuked from orbit. MIT Computing Report: '() Computer Services: There was discussion on the sipb-gnu list about what level of service should be provided, but yandros and ckclark aren't here, so we won't discuss it at this meeting. SIPB AFS Cell Backup Report: backup is done. rosebud was down from sunday 5:30pm to wednesday 1am due to hardware failure. It's back now. Publications Report: Even more new machine proposal. Nobody knows what the real state of it is, and mhbraun is in the Adirondacks. Also, Peter Roden is probably no longer the person it should go to. Who is? It should go to them by Thursday. iSecurity is doing nothing. iAFS wants to be ready for copying by the end of the week. bert will have a bleeding draft in the office asap. make it red. rjbarbal hacked together a PS map of the campus with cluster info on it. Part of the map will appear on the cluster cards. annual report is in amgreene wait. R/O Report: The activities midway is Tuesday. What are we doing? There was talk of making a videotape from the TANSTAAFL [sic], but amgreene isn't likely to get to it. He's volunteered, though, just in case. dcctdw should tell yandros should send mail to the list about what he wants to happen for the midway. We are in jis-wait on stories, and we have one AI tour guide, and one other possibility. Some prefrosh sent mail to sipb@mit.edu asking about us. bjaspan responded. That's one prefrosh. R/O is here. run in terror. People should try to be free for the activities midway, wear $\Sigma\Pi$B shirts. IAP Report: '() CokeComm Report: The soda jerk has not resigned, but he is campaigning for a replacement, by not doing anything. Other: What is the status of the charon decmips port? nil. Has anybody tried to start the bitnet software on one of the maxines? Nope. Someone should try. Other Other: The shirts are here. The UA sucks. shabby is back. The meeting was adjourned at 19:47:56. Minutes taken and submitted by marc.