Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 02/19/2001 The meeting was called to order at 19:31 by fyfer. In attendance were Voting members: sly, lgdean, fyfer, arolfe , jmorzins, kolya, alex_c, amu, nathanw, dmaze, ingolia Associate members: kretch, cfox, belmonte, jhawk, cana Non-voting members: Prospectives: xela, mwp Guests: Treasurer's Report: sly: the right people should have access to our things, or will tomorrow when the financial people come back. Chairman's Report: fyfer: I'm the chairman, apparently. nathanw: I'm not Office Report: jmorzins: still here dmaze: Liskov : Program Development in Java. I'd like to buy it from Quantum. It's being used in 6.170 this term. jhawk: how much? dmaze: under $100 [dmaze allocation: $100 for Liskov book] cana: I'd like to buy a copy of the O'Reilly SSH book? It's less than $50. [cana allocation: $50 for O'Reilly SSH book] Office Cleaning Report: ingolia: the not-a-fish has been restarted and I'll watch it more closely. kretch: if not, I'll bring back the fish. MIT Computing Report: Computer Services: SIPB Backup Report: fyfer: where's garry? sly: they probably did themselves Publications Report: jmorzins: someone took the iAthena I printed last week. Orientation Report: IAP Report: xela: nothing's changed since last IAP CokeComm Report: all: sucks! xela: are we cokecomm free? fyfer: gif said he's waiting to see if marc wanted to do it, and gif will pass of the money when there's a new cokecomm. Keep giving money to gif for now. Other: nathanw: a bunch of junk left sipb this afternoon. In a good way. Other Other: amu: I had an occassion to use RS the other day. It's a utility that transposes text and does other wacky things. dmaze: blanche -f can lose strangely on self owned lists while deleting yourself andadding other people. belmonte: all your base are belong to us. The meeting was adjourned at 19:36. Minutes taken and submitted by arolfe.