Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2014-04-28 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by dove. In attendance were Voting members: andreser codetaku dove dwilson iannucci k_sunter phurst tboning Associate members: presbrey | achernya Prospectives: asuhl dzaefn jtbarker sadun | jogama Guests: Administrivia: k_sunter: We have a mural possibly being painted outside; I'm going to forward the design that the CAC came up with; she'd be painting the grumpy fuzzball and stenciling and spraypainting our name. There was concern that the fuzzball is kind of unfortunate what with it being grumpy and all, so we can have discussion about that. glasgall: This afternoon, zacheiss announced that the Athena Watchmakers program, where students did work on making Athena the system we know and argue with today. He sent an e-mail to sipb-jobs; you should apply if you're a student and want to get paid to help make computing at MIT cooler. dove: I suspect this was partially spurred on by our meeting with John Charles; we talked about this sort of thing. dove: There will be a SIPB/IS&T dinner on the first or second week of May. If you're interested in attending, like if you're working on something IS&T might be interested in, talk to dvorak42. As part of this, Steven has asked em to move to reallocate funds for that; judging by the numbers (20-25 people), and $15 a head, I move to replace the original allocation for $400. glasgall: Is IS&T putting money towards this? dove: I don't believe so. I guess you could say the money is coming out of their pocket? There are quite a few IS&T people attending, including John Charles. achernya: I think it's the 8th. tboning: Wasn't it set for the 6th? dove: Something around there. [Motion seconded, white balloted.] dove: On an ambiguously comparatively expensive note, Jared and I were sitting in the office and we got to talking about this open-source music player for Linux that we installed on zsr; if you go to zsr.mit.edu:6680, you can search for any song on Spotify and play it over zsr. Right now this is using Jared's spotify account; obviously this is bad. At this point, I think it's appropriate to upgrade our account to premium. The monthly cost is $8/month. [Never Gonna Give You Up starts playing.] dove: This is in parallel with gutenbach. We installed the Spotify and web client Mopidy extensions, but you could also write a Kerberized control mechanism, replace the site with something that requires certs, etc. I'm not going to allocate right now since I don't know how we're going to run this; maybe allocate a year's subscription a year. I've deferred to tboning to figure out the best way to pay for a monthly thing. As a straw poll, how many people would vote in favor? [About half the office raises their hand.] glasgall: Can we just motion for it now? [White ballot, motion passes.] jogama: I move to allocate about $150 for food for the OpenHatch even that happened last Saturday. glasgall: How did it go? jogama: Saturday was pretty awesome; everybody was there learning, and at the end of the day a lot of people were still around. Sunday was a bit of a letdown because about 3-5 students showed up, but overall I'd say it was pretty good. dove: How many the first day? jogama: 20-some. [White ballot, motion passes.] SIPB Project Reports: asuhl: SIPB LED! dove: Holy moley! asuhl: It turns out people have already reverse-engineered the protocol. I put together a little demo. It has a built-in strawberry symbol. glasgall: As well as one for tea party and skyline. asuhl: It turns out that instead of wanting \b for instance, it actually wants a literal backslash and the letter b. I now have a thing where you can just talk to 41337 on lola-granola and send a message. The source is in my Public. glasgall: Can someone create a repository on the SIPB Github account? asuhl: Next thing we want to figure out what we want to let it display. We could have it pull from the door to say whether the door is open if you don't feel like looking all the way over, or display what's on zsr, etc. Also figuring out how to do multiple messages; there's sort of support for that, I haven't figured out how it works completely yet. Also possibly getting a dedicated rpi. achernya: You can hook up to the one intended for the door. New Prospective Introductions: '() Other: achernya: Since I'm the Repo Man, I was playing with setting up a Github clone called Gogs, the Go Github Service; it's a single binary and it appears to work. glasgall: Why is this surprising you? It's a Google thing. achernya: I don't expect random open source software to work without configuring. That said, Docker is weird; does anybody know how to Docker? glasgall: A little. achernya: Anyway, we might have a git hosting service at some point. glasgall: The servers hosting the OpenAFS project are moving from Stanford to MIT thanks to efforts from kaduk, because Stanford's kicking them out. achernya: Why? glasgall: I don't know. kaduk is setting up stuff in ops-land for it. Other Other: glasgall: It's gone like 3 weeks without snowing. The meeting was adjourned at 19:45. Minutes taken and submitted by phurst.