Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 04/13/98 The meeting was called to order at 19:30:00 by elliot. In attendance were Voting members: nathanw, hartmans, sit, yonah, gutnik, harrisj, jmorzins, elliot, yandros, nygren, cat | yak, pipa, jered Associate members: jemorris, jtkohl, mhpower, jhawk, marc, jewell | jweiss Non-voting members: Prospectives: tb, ocschwar, zardoz Guests: Treasurer's Report: () Chairman's Report: hartmans: The EC appointed nygren, cat, magdalen, shabby, jhawk, marc, srz to the committee formed by the board last week. marc: A brief summary for committee. I was chosen as chair while out of the room. Up to this point, we composed a series of questions and sent them out. Try to organize our thoughts and your thoughts. Since then, we have received about 12 responses. Collating and tabulating them. Ongoing task is to organize them into a summary. We would like to encourage prospectives and x-prospectives to respond. We want to have an open meeting on Thursday for a round-table discussion. Please send in responses if you have not done so. mhpower: Consider having a meeting that does not conflict with the seventh day of Passover. marc: Oops. We didn't consider that; it's not clear we can easily reschedule. At this point, I'm not sure we can give religious conflicts more weight than class conflicts etc. Office Report: elliot: I think granola is working. tb: Rose came and physically talked to kretch. They more or less agreed to do carpet after exam period. Office Cleaning Report: It happened. MIT Computing Report: nathanw: A known bug was spotted. Various versions of Solaris crash when they are up for 248 days. It has been 248 days since the August power outage; some machines crashed. pipa: sanda the printer only has 2M of memory; hotline has been notified, but some people complain because it works poorly. Computer Services: () SIPB Backup Report: () Publications Report: yandros: we are OK R/O Report: jtkohl: we should pick a suckor. IAP Report: CokeComm Report: marc: I am going to get stuff with pipa Tuesday. Other: harrisj: Swapfest this Sunday. Other Other: jhawk: New LSC calendars for summer. There was a brown-out last night. jered: You can't store much data on a disk with big gouges in it. The meeting was adjourned at 19:41. Minutes taken and submitted by hartmans.