Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 08/16/93 The meeting was called to order at 19:30:30 by mkgray. In attendance were Voting members: yandros, dcctdw, gsstark, sorokin, yoav, bert, ghudson, abbe, warlord | sekullbe, mhbraun, marthag, tlyu Associate members: srz, jtkohl, opus, marc | eichin Non-voting members: rjbarbal, mcmullan, proven Prospectives: fastcart, lorianne, sipb5 Guests: Treasurer's Report: There are a bunch of outdated req forms in the filing cabinet. They're going away. There's a Neat LaTeX book, more tutorial-style that the Lamport book. Tabled to examine the book. Chairman's Report: Members are encouraged to hold question and answer sessions about services they maintain. lorianne volunteers to attend these and take notes for the office manual (thanks, Lori!) Office Report: Recycling should happen: gsstark will do it. Nerd kits: tiuzzol will deal. Music is getting a little loud; be nice to our neighbors during working hours. OS/2 2.1? Discussion. Some people wonder why. Some people want to develop on it. Vote: passes (Many-2-3) MIT Computing Report: The cluster opens tomorrow or after. The public suns are on; go forth and break them. Computer Services: Athena is `demoting' 600dpi font support. xdvi.new needs to be rebuilt (again). 486 box: warlord found another candidate for less money. Suggestions should be sent in RSN (but we'll probably be waiting for memory prices to settle down). CD Rom's - how much are we interested in spending? offline The Feeble Virtual WindowManager (fvwm) is in watchmaker. Try it. 5 1/4" floppy: mcmullan will most likely give us one; we might have one of our own. Also, our new 486 will probably have one SIPB AFS Cell Backup Report: warlord did it. `How to do the SIPB AFS Cell Backup' draft has been added to the office manual. Rosebud is NO LONGER the AIX build machines. Oliver is. Publications Report: iLaTeX: rush to try to finish; bleed now! iZephyr: rush to try to finish; bleed now! iAthena: rush to try to finish; bleed now! Newsletter: Write something!! TechInfo: We have something (thanks to rjbarbal). Write More! R/O Report: Tour guides should crawl out of the woodwork starting about now. The mantle of leadership has been passed from abbe to marthag. The SIPB Open House: no news isn't good news. Wiring Johnson: jis is dealing. (thanks, Jeff!!!) IAP Report: '() CokeComm Report: We have more ice cream; we have plenty of coke; there will be a new run soon. Other: Want to help with ClearingHouse? Send mail to clhfolks Play with rjbarbal and magnetic tape after the meeting. Other Other: Barenaked Ladies in concert! Excellent! Eddie! Excellent! warlord and mcmullan want name suggestions for their machines. New chinese place that's open till midnight and delivers. mhbraun: Ultimate after the meeting!!! yoav is back. Yay! rjbarbal is going to be a registered MIT student again! Yay! The meeting was adjourned at 19:59:59. Minutes taken and submitted by yandros.