Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 12/20/93 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by ghudson. In attendance were Voting members: warlord bert abbe tlyu ghudson dcctdw gamadrid | yoav Associate members: mjbauer rei rls eichin leira cjsmith mhpower srz jweiss raeburn | jtkohl Non-voting members: proven Prospectives: shadow | akatlas Guests: Treasurer's Report: He's not here.. No wait, he is here... From Kathy: If you make a purchase, be sure to get a receipt if you want to get reimbursed. Chairman's Report: He is not here. Office Report: We have a non-functional 5.25" drive in quiche. We have RTs. Steve's mouse died.. The RTs are dying. They should get replaced. Dr. Kavorkian? There was a postcard from UPS here, but it vanished. Anyone know what happened to it? What is the thing that looks like a printer? Its a printer. Marc grabbed it, along with some other hardware. If you want, look at the h19s and possibly take them away... They were used for Clearinghouse. W20 will be closed on both Christmas and New Years. MIT Computing Report: MIT has computers. We have a T3 hookup to the NSFnet. Computer Services: warlord went to the Alumni Association to speak about an alumni server. We should come up with a written proposal that says how much it will cost for, say, 6 phone lines and modems for the alumni server. People should work on this. SIPB AFS Cell Backup Report: Backup is 1/2 done, says mhpower. Publications Report: We have AFS 3.2 docs in the office. Don't give out ancient documentation! The ancient copies of Inessential Guide to Athena have been recycled, so this shouldn't be a big problem any more. 150 copies of iAthena? 2nded. many-0-0. akatlas volunteers. People should look at iLinux! It's a draft written by svalente; it's hanging on the bulletin board near dt. R/O Report: '() IAP Report: Its soon! Imminent! Just around the corner. The IAP office mangled tlyu's schedule, but the starting date he had originally planned on (a Monday) turns out to be an Institute holiday, so he'll start on Tuesday anyway and make it a four-day class. CokeComm Report: We have coke and icecream! We need to get it after the meeting. Other: ghudson is running a mud. Other Other: Cygnus x-mas tree made the washington post business section! There is peanut brittle from gamadrid's mom. Thanks mom! There will be an annular eclipse in May visible in New Hampshire. There is plenty of parking available. Gamadrid is illegally parked. Rumor about a sipb member hired by DCNS? nlgilman will be writing krb5 man pages. The meeting was adjourned at 19:47. Minutes taken and submitted by warlord.