Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2012-02-27 The meeting was called to order at 7:30:00 by achernya. In attendance were Voting members: achernya adehnert ezyang kaduk ine phurst Associate members: lfaraone mats_a quentin vzh Prospectives: bfrank dennison dougfeig madars omalley1 | dlaw Guests: Administrivia: '() Officer Reports: '() SIPB Projects Report: quentin: nic.mit.edu has been broken since Thursday, including DHCP registrations. jhawk: Although if you have wireless, you can use MIT SECURE. Maybe the board should offer communication to IS&T. ezyang: Script had an informal worksession on Thursday. We poked at the kickstarting process, currently done by starting an HTTP server on the host serving the kickstart file to the VM, but we think we have a method that's much saner. quentin: XVM finally got around to killing the VMs of the people who graduated a year and a half ago. jhawk: How many were not using them? quentin: How do you determine that? jhawk: Don't know. quentin: It was 9.6% of the running VMs. achernya: It should free 17 GB according to my math. quentin: Before we were out of RAM, now we're 90% full. achernya: Scripts did deactivactions; about 250 accounts were removed. lfaraone: Were these meaningful? achernya: Yes. omalley1: Dormbase is moving along well; there is a prize on campus called iCampus Prize that we feel Dormbase would be well suited for. We have a presentation tomorrow, we hear back March 5th. jhawk: Is it still Microsoft sponsored? omalley1: Yes. quentin: It's spending the money they got n years ago from Microsoft. Office Report: '() Other: '() Other Other: quentin: Google is building a new campus in Kendall Square. mats_a: I thought they were connecting the two buildings. quentin: It's not clear how much is connection and how much is construction. At the very least they're going to be turning multiple buildings into one. I suggest starting from rwinters.com if you want to read the relevant filings. lfaraone: Hello from Washington DC. mats_a: Aren't you registered for classes right now?! lfaraone: Yes. The meeting was adjourned at 7:36:46. Minutes taken and submitted by phurst.