Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2017-04-17 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by mcyoung. In attendance were Voting members: mcyoung, emmabat, dzaefn, bpchen, ermain, cela | dukhovni, ikdc Associate members: foner, achernya, andersk, lujan Prospectives: parkah, huangjd, asludds, deywo Guests: tdelgado Administrivia: parkah: Do allocations for a project go during administrivia? mcyoung: Yes parkah: There's a Hyades hackathon tomorrow that starts at 11 am, so if you want to go to this, just say you're going so we can get food. achernya: There's a standing allocation for hackathons. andersk: There's a 48-hour requirement for that though. parkah: So, allocation for food for this hackathon. I'm not sure exactly how many people are coming...I think 4-6 people. cela: How much money? parkah: $80? mcyoung: Yeah, I'd like to say $80-ish. Seconded. bpchen: White balloted mcyoung: Allocation passes. I'd like to make an allocation of $150 on ignacioe's behalf for a new microwave. dzaefn: Seconded bpchen: White ballot huangjd: We have a microwave? achernya: We have a thing that looks like a microwave. mcyoung: Allocation passes Project Reports: foner: We have a Cluedump coming up in two days and on May 3. Anyone who wants to do one talk to me parkah: Meeting-hackathon tomorrow for Hyades, we'll talk about how we want to work on it, you'll learn more about the project there. It's at 11 am Other: cela: Microsoft documents a few years old got dumped, it'd have been really bad for people with Windows computers if they hadn't been updated last month. Update your boxes if they run windows. dzaefn: Some of they names they had for their tools are as usual amazing. cela: One was called Eternal Blue. Other Other: huangjd: Can someone go over how CokeComm works? *someone* : After the meeting bpchen: MIT is off today! *cheering* mcyoung: Tomorrow is a day off for students but not staff *discussion of holiday assignment* dukhovni: Anyone want to help me make a free-software alternative to Google Forms? foner: Are you sure such a thing doesn't already exist? dukhovni: I've looked, nothing that does what I want it to do. cela: Taxes. Tomorrow. mcyoung: There's some kind of due-tomorrow do-tomorrow joke in here lujan: There were a lot of people running today dukhovni: There are 6 people running this week (for UA elections) *discussion of UA elections / voting problems* The meeting was adjourned at 19:41. Minutes taken and submitted by emmabat.