Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 01/11/1999 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by cat. In attendance were Voting members: cat,hartmans,nathanw, amu, kretch Associate members: jdaniel, klmitch, yonah, magdalen, eichin, proven, marc, jweiss | mycroft, nygren, jjmmikkel Non-voting members: Prospectives: fyfer, zacheiss, gamache, lockhart, seph, lnemzer, nemo, xela, tb, ingolia, belmonte, ianand, mbaker | cyruse, int18, ansbergc, aidan Guests: Treasurer's Report: nathanw: Haven't seen this month's statement. Chairman's Report: nathanw: Chairman is probably over the pacific ocean. Office Report: gamache: I have finished iSecurity. What should I do with it? cat: How much have people looked at it? tb: Post a copy on the bulletin board for people to bleed on. xela: You might put an electronic copy in your IAP sipb space. kretch: Some is covered in Getting Started with PGP. I will give you a pointer and you can reconcile differences. belmonte: Was anythign done about the dead monitor? marc: The monitor on snork is not highly focused, at least with the resolution I was using. Other discussion happens on monitors; cat will attempt to check status on some things. Office Cleaning Report: belmonte: Cleaning happened. Recycling was done. cat: People should remember ask about vacuuming. tb: What is the proper procedure? Just ask the people who take the trash? [Yes] MIT Computing Report: jweiss: A week from Wednesday, there will be an Athena retrospective thing. Computer Services: jweiss: IS has realized that the current system of SIPB having two machine room card keys does not give us sufficient accountability. As such this will change; SIPB will not have card keys; personal card keys will be issued to SIPB people who need them. The exact time frame has not been set. This will happen after the policy on who gets cards is set. Roughly, the policy is that cards will be issued if there is a demonstrable need and some appropriate group in the SIPB decides it is reasonable for that person to have a card key. IS does reserve the right to not issue cards. There will be a sort of soft limit on the number of cards issued. If SIPB requires going above that limit it will require some justification. I will send mail with the draft proposal; please direct comments through cat (cat@mit.edu). I would like to have policy set next week or so. mhpower: There was a denial of service attack against the SIPB web server this afternoon. I couldn't find a solution that didn't involve compiling IP addresses into httpd. tb: It might be nice if news did its renumbering at some point that matched with a low point for its user community. cat: Talk to news maintainers. SIPB Backup Report: cat: yandros will be out for a while and people should make sure backups get done. kretch is doing AFS. klmitch: charon backup failed. penguin-lust complained. Publications Report: xela says we have stuff. Orientation Report: ' () IAP Report: xela: IAP has been happening for a week. We had four classes. Security, lex/yacc is holding at about 30 people. Belmonte's CCC is going on well. A slight problem with gemery's Perl class the room couldn't hold all the people who showed up. CokeComm Report: ' () Other: aidan: I'm doing the dry run of my TCL class tonight if anyone wants to come. Other Other: nathanw: I am doing an order of vi reference coffee mugs; mail me if interested. xela: I am looking at doing Emacs reference mugs. marc: It costs $0.33 to mail a 1 oz first-class letter. mycroft: I still carry $0.25 stamps. The meeting was adjourned at 19:47. Minutes taken and submitted by hartmans.