Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2011-09-26


The meeting was called to order by dwilson at 19:30:00.

In attendance were
        Voting members: ezyang kaduk quentin bbaren phurst afarrell
        pquimby dwilson achernya

        Associate members: asedeno jdreed jhawk

        Prospectives: rsloan lapentab vehanus@gmail.com dennison cjfman
        steb duncant dlaw gurtej | zoesnape goodsont dxiao

Administrivia
=============

bbaren: Cluedumps are happening. A week from tomorrow I'm cluedumping on
PGP and GnuPG, similar to woodrow's cluedump two years ago. 2-143 at 8PM.

vehanus: In fact, cluedumps are happening tomorrow.

duncant: It's gonna be about Bitcoin.  The first half is Bitcoin for
people who don't like crypto, and the second half is Bitcoin for
people who do like crypto.

vehanus: Two wonderful topics!



afarrell: We had the hackathon, The Great Hacksby.  There is going
to be another hackathon this coming Saturday, from geofft, which is
a Debian/Debathena bugsquashathon.

dwilson: It is explicitly intended as such.


achernya: All Scripts physical hosts run Squeeze. [Yay.] Unfortunately
we are still on Fedora 13 moving to Fedora 15. But we are almost ready.
They'll be ready when we do the cutover.


Project Updates
===============

gurtej: I worked on BarnOwl, dealing with the case when your text is really long.
It's mostly working, but there are some issues with redrawing the edit text
window.

steb: I worked on Cron pony, which lets you edit cronjobs from scripts.  We're still
working on Django, but the parsing is ready, and we have some basic forms for editing.

afarrell: SIPB VOIP is being reborn, thanks to ahailes, quentin and
geofft.  The server is up named joybubbles, and I'm working on getting
wakeup.mit.edu rewritten in Flask instead of shell. [jhawk: Did captain-crunch break?]
[quentin: Hardware was ancient, we upgraded it.]

jdreed: Debathena had some things, and we didn't scare people off!  The
owl's eyes now blink, thanks to bbaren.  We are still working on other
things.  [jhawk: Full moon?] [indistinct]  People interested in
Debathena should come to the cluedump on October 18, at 7:30pm, in
3-133, entitled "Getting Started With Debathena Development.

dennison: I worked on DormBase, an idea to create one common open source
dorm management system. Using Python and Django, I worked on a status
board for Simmons, for the LCD boards, like NextBus.

rsloan: I was working on a web interface for Scripts autoinstalls, which
is not finished.



Other
=====

afarrell: This Thursday, in 32-144, DevShop will be happening.  People will be
working on projects from 10pm to 2am.  I'm hoping to get good attendance from SIPB.

kaduk: Last week, I belatededly mentioned OpenAFS 1.6.0. Now, I get to belatedly
announce 1.7.1, which is a new branch of development releases, targeting
Windows support. [whoa].  Now it presents as a native filesystem to
Windows, rather than a Samba mount over local loopback.  Much improved
on Windows 7.

jhawk: Recently, I was travelling around Boston, but NextBus wasn't integrated
with MBTA mapping directions.  Since the busses were nowhere near on schedule,
I was stuck in the middle of nowhere.  Is there any service for integrating
this data?  [achernya: Google Transit does this] [quentin: They get the feed,
but I don't know if they use it.]



meeting adjourned at approximately 7:40.

        Minutes taken and submitted by ezyang.