Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 03/8/2004 The meeting was called to order at 19:30:06 by jtu. In attendance were Voting members: jtu kenta arolfe merolish | keithw Associate members: ocschwar belmonte jhawk wjh Prospectives: zoz jbarnold | jtwang rayhe jmandel Guests: | aroach Treasurer's Report: arolfe: treasurer is here jtu: we have money? arolfe: we have about 3500. Chairman's Report: jtu: next week elections for jeff (jbarnold) jtu: ideas for jane. tell me some. Office Report: kenta: vmware workstation 4, academic. jmorzins: what's the vmware locker kenta: workstation 2, plus client to gsx server on steve-dallas. jmorzins: can anybody use the vmware locker? kenta: No, not without a license key. [kenta allocation: $130] Office Cleaning Report: MIT Computing Report: kenta: Should MIT by a SGI altix 350? 16-processor itanium belmonte: It's absurd that one has to come to campus and babysit a workstation to run a long job. Would this machine be available for anyone to use, or would it be like longjobs? kenta: that's still up in the air. Computer Services: jtu: cporter is making a list of unloved SIPB projects, to put on the vmware server machine. keithw: two weeks i submitted a proposal to MIT lawyers. Based on their response, I predict it will be hard going to get approval from MIT's internal lawyers. Publications Report: jtu: golem is still a lame ass. merolish: we need to send e-mail somewhere jtu: we're still out of imatlab Orientation Report: jbarnold: any ideas of how to wile the freshmen with project ideas? IAP Report: ocschwar: it's sooner than you think. CokeComm Report: jtu: we restocked belmonte: jenselby rules Other: Other Other: ocschwar: robert forrester of las cruces NM, 1400 18-guage piercings, a guinness world record. ``It hurt a lot.'' merolish: I'm cast in "A new brain", the MTG spring musical. ocschwar: are you pondering what i'm pondering merolish: no keithw: josh, austin, and I have made a locked door unlocked. We're trying to find the relationship between the prox info, and the magcard info. if anyone wants to help stare at the bits, help would be appreciated The meeting was adjourned at 19:44. Minutes taken and submitted by kenta.