Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 11/23/98 The meeting was called to order at 19:31 by elliot. In attendance were Voting members: sly, sepherke, nygren, gisele, hartmans, elliot, amu Associate members: marc, bjaspan, yonah, jhawk, klmitch, rjbarbal, mycroft, jewell, jfmurphy, mhpower | dkk Non-voting members: Prospectives: pocky, gamache, golem, gemery, lnemzer, deberg, aidan, ansbergc, belmonte, locutus, devnull@gnu.org, jmercado, seph Guests: Treasurer's Report: '() Chairman's Report: '() Office Report: mycroft: Rose came in and asked if they sweep this every day. They are suposed to vacuum every day; if it doesn't happen, tell Rose. gisele: If you ask people outside the office to clean, they tend to. jhawk: Instances of vacuuming are on the white board. Office Cleaning Report: klmitch: I believe there was some cleaning done. ansbergc: I brought down cans. fastcart: three of the four filters were changed. jhawk: Please make sure mail is sent whenever anything is done to our facilities. marc: This memory card has been sitting around near CJ. I move that it be disposed of by czar in charge of special ops. [Seconded. Objection to white ballot. Passes 10-2-4.] marc: We need more chairs. Does anyone have clue about money? jhawk: Upwards of $9k for office budget now. marc: I think that in January, I will move that we buy more chairs of the sort I'm setting on now unless someone comes up with something better. nygren has a place to by cheaper chairs of similar quality. jhawk: I am unimpressed with the last batch of chairs we bought; we should hunt for something better. Time limit is reasonable. dkk: N42 has really nice chairs. Getting folding chairs for meetings would be useful. jmercado suggests we get the Steelcase Criterion chairs that the ATIC lab has. MIT Computing Report: jhawk: Prometheus, the second of the two RAID servers was deployed. Volumes have moved. dkk: Whole servers have gone away. Computer Services: sly: Webmaster had a meeting yesterday. Some more volunteers were trained. mhpower: Questions about proxy caching were referred to another lawyer. I also got a written statement from MIT legal that proxy caching is probably illegal. jhawk: Where should this be documented? mhpower: I will document to sipb-ec. mycroft: It seems to me that this is not something that only the EC should be told about. mhpower acknowledges. jhawk: Any member may ask to be added to the ACL for the sipb-ec discuss meeting. hartmans: I have not dealt with guest accounts. I'm busy this week, will try to deal next week unless someone else deals. SIPB Backup Report: klmitch: I have seen messages from dandelion-patch and charon asking to be backed up. Publications Report: jhawk: We have a lot of cluster cards. yonah: We are OK. Orientation Report: '() IAP Report: mycroft [as xela]: Web site is up and progress is being made. CokeComm Report: marc: There is lots of stuff now. gisele: When expecting filters to be changed, please do not block the filters with flats of soda. Other: amu: We got mail from people interested in making a pilgrimage to RTFM. jhawk: The current Save In Case Of Fire Box needs to be reengineered. Other Other: fastcart: Last B5 Wednesday. The meeting was adjourned at 19:51. Minutes taken and submitted by hartmans.