Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 02/11/2002 The meeting was called to order at 19.30.01 by tibbetts. In attendance were Voting members: aatharuv aletta arolfe cana emarcus foley gif golem jmorzins kolya nim tibbetts | keithw alex_c Associate members: belmonte dbj dmaze hartmans ingolia jfmurphy jhawk jweiss marc rjbarbal yak | lnemzer Prospectives: alien fustflum ike ilai jhutz jtu rax vkm wangq Treasurer's Report: nim: We still have money. We should spend it or something. Chairman's Report: hartmans: It's jhutz's third meeting. He's taking a long time to accumulate four meetings. tibbetts: Encourage him to FTGOS. alex_c: I move to nominate alien for membership. <11-0-1> tibbetts: There will be an election meeting for alien next week. We have elections. [tibbetts reads Chair description] arolfe: I nominate tibbetts. gif: Who's eligible? hartmans: You need to be an active member who's been a member for at least a term, and you need to be here or to have sent the chair mail. tibbetts: People eligible for offices are alex_c, arolfe, cana, foley, gif, golem, jmorzins, keithw, kolya, nim, tibbetts. Is someone producing ballots? Someone produce ballots while you harass me with questions. keithw: What's your summer situation? tibbetts: I'm MEnging in the fall, and I plan to be a grad student over the summer. golem: Be honest: what do you think your chances are of winning? tibbetts: I'm reasonably confident on this one. hartmans: You should read what people can put on their ballots. marc: Will you end up being florey hall chair and SIPB chair simultaneously? tibbetts: I'm not a hall chair anymore. keithw: Do you hold any other offices? tibbetts: I don't think so, oh, I'm currently sysadmin for the Guild. And vice chair of the Student Information Processing Board. [tibbetts reads what can be put on ballots] <13-0-1, tibbetts is the new chair> [tibbetts reads Vice Chair description] aletta: I nominate keithw. lnemzer: I nominate cana. tibbetts: I nominate golem. nim: If elected, would you do a good job as vice chair? keithw: As far as delegating responsibility for SIPB services, that has not so far been my area. Other than that I can probably do a good job. golem: I can eat paper. tibbetts: Do either of you have any innovative ideas about how to be vice chair? [silence] Didn't think so. ingolia: Given that the vice chair is in charge of computer services in particular, what services do you think it's important to focus attention on in the next year? keithw: I'm involved in an effort to have a warez server music sharing service run out of the SIPB machine room. golem: I guess the most important service is the sipb locker. tibbetts: Which if any service maintainers do you find lame? golem: webmaster. keithw: webmaster. rjbarbal: So if tibbetts here is a lame-butt and fails to show up for meetings, what suitable punishment would you inflict on him? keithw: I think having me as vice chair would be incentive enough for the SIPB to come up with a suitable punishment. golem: I'll stab him in the back by talking to all the professors he wants to work with. [keithw: 6 golem: 7] [golem is the new vice chair] [tibbetts reads Treasurer description] tibbetts: I nominate nim. cana: I nominate keithw. golem: nim, are you going to be able to, like, deal? nim: Yeah. rjbarbal: Have you ever worked for Arthur Andersen? nim: No. tibbetts: How about Howard Andersen? nim: No. keithw: Do you understand any of the mechanics behind the server budget? nim: I understand none of the mechanics behind the server budget. jweiss: Would you know the right person to talk to to find out? nim: [appropriate answer] <12-0-1, nim continues as treasurer> [tibbetts reads Secretary description] emarcus: I nominate alex_c. tibbetts: He's all, like, thesing and such; he has an excuse. jmorzins: I nominate keithw. tibbetts: Anyone who wants to be secretary, raise your hand. [no hands] I nominate cana. gif: I nominate yo yo yo sub. tibbetts: yo yo yo sub is not an active member. keithw: I nominate foley. yak: foley, have you been to a meeting in the past year? foley: Yes. golem: Do either of you actually want to be secretary, by any chance, even a little bit? cana: I would be quite willing, I can't say it's a burning passion or desire, but yeah, sure. It would be keen. jweiss: Are you going to be around? foley: I am a grad student in mechanical engineering, so I'll be here for a while. cana: I might not be a student in the fall. marc: What's the worst thing that you could do to the SIPB with your powers? foley: I could put things in the minutes to mess with your minds. tibbetts: emacs or vi? cana: For minutes? emacs. tibbetts: No, in general. foley: Use vi for anything short, use emacs for anything complex. hartmans: foley, do you have time / how hosed are you? Will you have time to actually do it? foley: I think I could do it. nim: What fraction of meetings do you think you'll actually be able to attend while you're secretary? foley: I have no conflicts. Usually I'm just in my office, tooling away. cana: The only thing that I might possibly miss a meeting for is if I went to France for two weeks or something. I would show up to all meetings. [cana: 8 foley: 4] [cana is the new secretary] [tibbetts reads the member-at-large description] tibbetts: I'm just going to nominate everyone because it's simpler that way. jfmurphy: Can anyone deal with an xv question? keithw: I'll take it. I accept. [keithw: 12 kolya: 10 arolfe: 8 jmorzins: 6 aletta: 6 alex_c: 6 foley: 5 emarcus: 4 gif: 4 aatharuv: 2 klmitch: 2] [keithw, kolya, arolfe are EC members-at-large] [alex_c: 9 jmorzins: 8 aletta: 7] [alex_c and jmorzins are EC members-at-large] Office Report: jhawk: For the fifth time in the past six months, I've noticed we don't have vise-grips. I move to allocate $30 for vise-grips. arolfe: When are vise-grips useful? jhawk: When we strip screws. [jhawk allocation: $30 for vise-grips] hartmans: I'm still being lame on the OCR software. I need to decide what we need to get. emarcus: cj has video issues. jweiss: Is that one of the monitors that was having issues? golem: It was the only one that wasn't. aatharuv: People seem to like the Linux machines a lot more than the other machines. keesh is hobbled with 128 megs of RAM. I move to buy a set of 128-meg DIMMs. tibbetts: Friendly amendment to 256-meg DIMMs. [accepted] hartmans: Another thing to think about is replacing keesh. tibbetts: Let's move this discussion offline till the next meeting. arolfe: You might also want to think about getting more memory for lola-granola. It has the same configuration that keesh has. golem: We have all this money. Let's get a second level for the SIPB office. jweiss: The new multics is currently in zacheiss's office. When it gets here, if there are people who are interested in helping to install it or the new charon, they should send me mail. If you're interested in AFS you can talk to me too but that's not what I'm dealing with right now. Office Cleaning Report: belmonte: The office was vacuumed. tibbetts: Are we having an auction? jweiss: I'm delaying it a few weeks. I move to dispose, at the discretion of the office tsar in charge of special operations, of one SPARC-5. tibbetts: thornhump is useful. jweiss: At least one SPARC-5 has been sitting on the floor back there for a few months. marc: How many old SPARC-5's are there in the pool of machines you might choose to get rid of? jweiss: Several. I was going to try to get rid of an old one rather than a newer one. I haven't figured out which one I want to make go away. [white ballot] MIT Computing Report: tibbetts: Somebody, like, put a bomb threat against W92 today. golem: I bet if W92 had blown up we wouldn't have a network anymore. jweiss: We'd actually still have a network, we'd just have a lot less computing. Computer Services: SIPB Backup Report: hartmans: They did themselves. golem is not as cool as a robot. Publications Report: tibbetts: We have publications. alien: And a pizza. Orientation Report: IAP Report: alien: IAP is over! CokeComm Report: cana: He's still out of town. He'll be back soon. dmaze: At his current rate of consumption, jhawk will pass jis in two years. This rests on the assumption that jis will never drink another can of SIPB soda. Other: Other Other: jweiss: Blood drive, today through Thursday, Sala. foley: I recently gained the capability, about a month ago, of reloading my own bullets. I haven't exploded my hands. The meeting was adjourned at 20.30.22. Minutes taken and submitted by belmonte.