Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 04/8/2002 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 EDT by tibbetts. In attendance were Voting members: tibbetts cana alex_c nim golem aatharuv Associate members: rjbarbal jhawk yak xela | marc Non-voting members: Prospectives: rax kareid Guests: Treasurer's Report: nim: SIPB is bankrupt. In an unrelated note, I'm going to Tahiti tomorrow. Chairman's Report: tibbetts: The chairman is going to Georgia tomorrow. I won't be here for next week's meeting. I guess Chris needs to do it. Chris, are you gonna do it? golem: POWER! I will use my power to buy things that cut off limbs. Office Report: jhawk: We now have small torx, in the toolbox. golem: There are fights breaking out over the grey and pink chairs in the office. We should get more. tibbetts: You need to learn to share. aatharuv: Move to allocate $200 for (2) 256MB, one for quiche and one for dt. tibbetts: Why not granola? aatharuv: There was some speculation we might be auctioning it off sometime soon. nim: How much do they have now? aatharuv: 128MB each. [aatharuv allocation: $200 for (2) 256MB DIMMS] alex_c: Move that it's the sense of the SIPB that the vice chair is a thieving imperialist scumbag. tibbetts: Vote by acclamation. All those in favor... jhawk: I'm a wanker! tibbetts: Motion passes. xela: Move that it's the sense of the SIPB that jhawk is a wanker. jhawk: Black ballot! tibbetts: The chair is going to strike this as offensive. I want to wield my annoying power. alex_c: Another Kinesis failed. I'm investigating. Office Cleaning Report: yak: The office has a moderate pit level. tibbetts: Is the office going to level up when it has more pit experience points? MIT Computing Report: Computer Services: rax: Alex and I sent mail back and forth but haven't done anything yet. If you're on a dorm network and you've been noticing it sucking, and have statistics that you're legally allowed to have, we could use those. alex_c: The library catalog system sucks. It would be relatively easy to write a cli to search it. If you're interested, talk to me. alex_c: Move to allocate $60 for crossover office. tibbetts: Friendly amendment to get crossover plugin too. alex_c: Ok, $100 then.. yak: Do we have the rest of MS Office? tibbetts: We have an MSDN subscription. [alex_c allocation: $100 for Crossover Office and Plugin] golem: What happened to that spare netra thing? tibbetts: I think we dropped the ball - do you want to pick it up? golem: I got bad vibes from jweiss about it. tibbetts: Me too, but we should buy two anyway. SIPB Backup Report: tibbetts: The backups needed a tape - someone gave them a tape. Garry sent mail. Publications Report: tibbetts: I bought iMatlab. rax: We should do something with iAthena. It is getting closer to the time when we'll want a revised one. cana: We have a volunteer! tibbetts: He's been doing that, actually... tibbetts: We could revive the "how to pick a good username" document. I'm not going to pick that up. If no one else picks it up, we'll have another year of bad usernames. marc: Such as? tibbetts: stargrrl, and tkc3710. yak: When does the activities packet go out? tibbetts: Over the summer, but they'll have their usernames by then - they get them with a web applet. xela: Where does the old version of this document live? tibbetts: I think it lives in AFS space...? jhawk: /afs/sipb/project/doc Orientation Report: tibbetts: Someone should run orientation. Aletta might've volunteered last year. She comes back in three weeks - I'll let her deal. IAP Report: tibbetts: alien already volunteered. CokeComm Report: nim: CokeComm raised prices. marc: As a corollary, if you're hard up for money, bring cans down, and you can keep the money. Other: jhawk: If anyone knows what type of tamper-resistant screws are on the cluster combo keypads, let me know. tibbetts: Today I used the postal scale over here. I'm shocked. yak: For something other than drugs? tibbetts: I've never used that postal scale for drugs. Other Other: cana: Daylight Savings Time happened, ugh. tibbetts: Sucks! jhawk: Daylight savings time is still happening, and will continue to happen for quite some time. jhawk: Everyone look at Chad report! tibbetts: You're too old. jhawk: Now that we have daylight savings time, we'll be playing ultimate after the meetings, when there's light. The meeting was adjourned at 19:45. Minutes taken and submitted by cana.