Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 04/27/98 The meeting was called to order at <19:30 by elliot. In attendance were Voting members: elliot, hartmans, kretch, jmorzins, svalente, yak, cat, pipa, amu | nygren Associate members: jemorris, marc, mhpower, xiphmont, ghudson, jhawk | kcr, jewell Non-voting members: Prospectives: tb, rfrankel, sepherke, justom, lnemzer, jmercado Guests: Treasurer's Report: svalente: uh Chairman's Report: hartmans: Does anyone object to a sepherke election the week of finals? [no] Discussion of moving the next meeting because it conflicts with the JMS talk. ghudson: We just shouldn't do anything contentious at the meeting. marc: We are going to have a report. We are not going to want to discuss the report at the meeting when the report comes out. Thus, having a low attendance meeting next week works out. elliot: The committee isn't going to give a presentation on the report.p Office Report: cat: I brought my camera in to take a picture of steve-dallas. Unless someone can make the lossage happen really big, we are not going to get a good photo. jewell: I move to get rid of a hot pot, an alarm clock, a camera tripod, black skates, a bag with hat felt and gloves. This is stuff elliot sent mail about a month ago. jhawk: I request that we keep the tripod. [accept second] white-ballot. Office Cleaning Report: jhawk: I move to allocate myself $11 for cleaning expenses. [second white ballot] MIT Computing Report: It's broken. It ended up being a lot more broken than we thought. kcr: Looks like some number of hesiod servers dumped core. It is being dealt with. Computer Services: () SIPB Backup Report: kretch: Afs happens Tuesday Publications Report: jhawk: LaTeX and Emacs refcards are still pending R/O Report: elliot: yandros is working on the thing for the activities book. We need people to deal with midway and tours. Talk to me, abbe, kretch, etc. nygren: Every few years, SIPB does an introduction to Athena for Unix clueful people. We might want to do this again. jhawk: Who did this last done? nygren: Last I remember was my freshman year. IAP Report: () CokeComm Report: We have stuff. Other: yak: hesiod is causing my Nethack game to lose. Other Other: tb: Israel is now a bit over 50 years old. The meeting was adjourned at 19:44. Minutes taken and submitted by hartmans.