Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 01/5/2004 The meeting was called to order at 19:31 by golem. In attendance were Voting members: arolfe golem jtu merolish | ike Associate members: alex_c jhawk Prospectives: cporter Guests: Treasurer's Report: arolfe: We started the fiscal year with $34,000. $19,134 gets spent on network and telephone costs. The difference is $14,823. We've spent $1,873 and have $2,585 in unspent allocations. This leaves $10,365. golem: Have you bugged any of the people with allocations? arolfe: No. golem: I was thinking we could get new furniture. Chairman's Report: Office Report: ike: New toy for the office. golem: That looks dangerous. ike: It's a device that will hit Ctrl-Alt-Del on a keyboard from a few feet away. Office Cleaning Report: golem: The office is a pit. It's been worse, but it's still a pit. MIT Computing Report: cporter: I/S is being transformed into Information Systems and Technology, and they're restructuring and renaming stuff. golem: And they'll come back together like Voltron. Computer Services: golem: nethack needs a new home. golem: Someone should figure out how to host a Subversion server. cporter: Perhaps we could put it on the VMWare server. golem: If you want to do something with it, go ahead. Publications Report: Orientation Report: IAP Report: jtu: It's now. Python starts tomorrow; C started today; the LISP thing is this week. CokeComm Report: Other: Other Other: arolfe: I hope somebody else has the slides for my Perl class. Sucks: cporter: Porting Duke Nukem 3D from a comment-less codebase. The meeting was adjourned at 19:44. Minutes taken and submitted by merolish.