Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2018-11-26 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by alvareza. In attendance were Student keyholders: alvareza, emmabat, cela, mtheng, elefthei, rsthomp, aathalye Associate keyholders: slz, wqian94, merolish Members: joshuaa, tareq, leeyuan, mwnguyen, byrdm Guests: '() Administrivia: elefthei: There was a mistake in the minutes last week, the email for the office czar is [...] Project Reports: cela: Hyades continues. npfoss: CourseRoad is partially finished. emmabat: It's prettier than it used to be, I noticed. npfoss: Oh, that has nothing to do with me. The completely new CourseRoad that was built from scratch [...] that we demoed to the admins [...] wqian94: IAP is sooner than you think. IAP classes is sooner than you think. We have a few classes that are on the Google form, [...] I will try to send out [...], but yeah, IAP classes, woohoo. Other: wqian94: This is kinda related because it involves technology, but General Motors laid off [a lot of workers, including engineers], which they said, quote, were [integral to the functioning of the company]. cela: There is a backdoor in the event-stream repository, which is a popular javascript library, a person said hey [could I contribute], and they added him to their repository, this person made one commit which added a dependency [...] which stole bitcoin credentials. wqian94: [...] Facebook group, and someone mentioned how the state of education is pretty shoddy these days, and they said that people in tech don't know what they're doing, and someone said yeah, all you need to say BUZZWORDS, and [...] alvareza: And now that we got our weekly buzzwords out... Other Other: emmabat: Class schedules came out today, so if you're a double major like me, you get to find out how all your plans fail. alvareza: Turkey day is sooner than you think. wqian94: I just want to say that Canadian thanksgiving is [next month]. wqian94: [...] There I ran into one of my [former students], who had a friend named Stef, who had a friend name Nate. npfoss: Is this Stephanie Chen? cela: Mars rover landed. It landed in one piece. With any luck it might have solar panels. wqian94: One piece? emmabat: Sorry, only the pieces that were supposed to come off came off. emmabat: It's not going anywhere, it's just digging a big hole to check if Mars' core is liquid or solid. [...] It also has a seismograph [...] alvareza: It would really suck if we got to Mars, and realized that oops there are earthquakes. cela: [...] I think the problem is that there might be meteors, which might impact [...] wqian94: On the subject of digging holes, apparently America thinks that digging holes is not American. [...] was shot to not-America, and it turns out that not-America is not [...] alvareza: I was going to say, why don't we just do more science, since science makes everyone happy, but then [...] emmabat: It's cold and wet outside. wqian94: The next winter storm is sooner than you think. Like right now. It's coming in two days or so. So right now it's in Chicago. By the way, tons of rides were cancelled in the Midwest, because, get this, there was a winter storm there. slz: We send our best regards to Miguel. *SIPB sends its best regards to Miguel. The meeting was adjourned at 19:41. Minutes taken and submitted by mtheng.