Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 02/20/95 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by ghudson. In attendance were Voting members: cat ghudson yoav jhawk sorokin rjbarbal bert fastcart yonah djib jered hartmans nygren Associate members: svalente sgw jweiss mhpower srz jtkohl mwhitson Non-voting members: Prospectives: cordelia nathanw vadim sipb7 (Rhonda Peck) rshah dean Guests: Previous Chairman's Report: Anybody want to object to the elections again? Treasurer's Report: Treasurer is not here. Abbe is not around, and can't give us a closing statement. Chairman's Report: Meeting etiquette: people have been complaining that they haven't been coming to SIPB meetings because they're loud and obnoxious. Some aspects are not good. If meetings are not efficient, that's not good. The most important problem is side commentary. The chair asks people not to make side comments. If people pipe in with information, they should wait for an opening first. Also, side conversations should not happen. People should speak clearly. Chair might send mail (to whither-sipb) with questions about last week's elections. Office Report: It's a pit. C64, etc. The office czar will announce auction soon. Office czar has started to do office stuff lately. If you want to stage an office-czar coup, contact sorokin (the current office czar). Jered is looking into a new network card for Lime-killer. The current card just doesn't work due to chipset problems. Several people on the net have tried to get it to work without success. Yoav moves to allocate $150 to buy a 3C509 card. We've spent $375 on memory for lime-killer so far. The card could be used elsewhere if Jered take lime-killer away, such as for Quiche. sgw asks if we can use a WDA8003 card, since he might have access to one. Yes, we can. Yoav withdraws his motion. MIT Computing Report: '() Computer Services: 3C509 problems seem to have been solved in netbsd. News service has been moved over to a Sparc 20 with 160mb RAM and 11 Gig of disk. The new server can support 119 people with a load below one. This would have caused a load of 6 or more on the old server. Web files are now being automatically copied off of AFS, so we could run multiple servers from the same source files now. We lost Portnoy's machine name (it's now an office machine). We'll lose another name when the SGI comes in. People should think about machine names, although we will get the name "Opus" back. SIPB Backup Report: charon and penguin-lust have been done, but the AFS backup hasn't been done. Publications Report: We don't seem to be out of anything. We have some Inessential Cyrillic R/O Report: When do we have to assign an R/O chairman? If anyone's interested, talk to Chad. This person deals with the summer mailing, activities midway, etc. This year the mailing may be a bound book with descriptions of activities. We may simply use the same text as last year. IAP Report: '() CokeComm Report: We currently have no Coke. dkk and George are going to get more Coke. George wants to pass Cokecomm on. Although dkk says he will not volunteer to be the official pusher, but he will help get Coke if someone is willing to keep track of money. Jered will talk to dkk. Other: Kerberized LPR for OS/2 seems to work (yay, shabby). On Saturday, a SIPB prospective as root@sub-zero.mit.edu mailed us about the Communications Decency Act (S. 314). Do we have an opinion? Maybe we should find out what MIT is doing. We don't have a budget for lobbying. If passed, it would apply current telephone law to telecommunication devices, and add a clause which would make service maintainers liable for illegal material on their service, so the news maintainers may be liable for obscene materials, etc. People should send mail if they really think the SIPB should express an opinion. Other Other: Almost being put into system:administrators on the Athena cell is really cool. 3.10 is pretty much 18.02 and 18.03 -- jessie The meeting was adjourned at 19:48. (short meeting) Minutes taken and submitted by srz.