Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 03/4/96 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by nocturne. In attendance were Voting members: nocturne cordelia tlyu bert svalente sit cat jmmikkel kretch nathanw mhbraun abbe | gsstark Associate members: ghudson marc jtkohl kcr jcb xiphmont warlord proven mwhitson mhpower mycroft dkk srz Non-voting members: Prospectives: jdaniel jemorris joanna danw pipa katyking marisa bigjoe | elliot jfmurphy jemorris Guests: sipb3 (dana@me.titech.ac.jp) Treasurer's Report: cat: Move to allocate $36.95 for _TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 3_. White ballot passes. cat: Move to allocate $25.00 for miscellaneous office supplies. White ballot passses. Send mail to cat if you can think of something we need. proven: Move to allocate $50.00 to buy the green book on POSIX.1b (real-time extensions to POSIX.1). It includes useful information for developers. Passes 6-1-many (high apathy count) abbe: Does the chair really do white ballots? [Yes.] mhbraun: If anything needs to come out of the IS budget, it needs to be decided due. marc: We have a statement of accounting from Clarinet that our account is past due. ghudson: I'll deal with it. Chairman's Report: cordelia: At least one former chairman of SIPB has been spotted in a dress, square-dancing. Office Report: MIT Computing Report: Computer Services: nocturne: We have a new load display for anxiety-closet. dkk: A professor wants an OpenGL source license; we wanted this too. dkk wants to know what we want kept open in a license agreement. Send dkk email if you have a comment. SIPB Backup Report: ghudson: We have a DLT drive. We think it sort-of kind-of works. It's not clear that it's significantly faster than the Exabyte drive, which is a surprise. Publications Report: R/O Report: IAP Report: CokeComm Report: Other: gsstark: quake is kind-of in the games locker and kind-of in outland. jcb: Nancy Gillman has chicken pox. She would like a lot of sympathy. all: Awwww. mhpower: There have been a lot of mailing list subscription forgeries recently, including some for MIT addresses. abbe: Someone who interviewed me in AT&T thought I was cool because I'd heard of awk. nocturne: jweiss will be holding a chair auction after the meeting. [Various people speculate on auctioning off old chairmen.] Other Other: warlord: Derek lives in Sommerville. kcr: The weather sucks. warlord: Nynex sucks even more. abbe: The weather in Dallas doesn't suck as much. cat: Everyone should take 6.111! svalente: Being a student again sucks. marc: But it's nice when you stop. ghudson: I have my diplomas now. The meeting was adjourned at 19:41. Minutes taken and submitted by ghudson.