Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2019-09-23 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by emmabat. In attendance were Student keyholders: alvareza, emmabat, cela, mwnguyen, zackpi, yczeng, bpchen, rsthomp | gshay, npfoss Associate keyholders: dzaefn, quentin, kenta, Members: stevengo, jmvidal, kjchen, bds, mau, vchuravy, vickiew, jnoguera, mitimmy, | amigdal mrittenb, maximo Guests: '() Administrivia: emmabat: Welcome to the SIPB meeting! emmabat: We will be having a keyholdership election, do we have quorum? alvareza: I think so! emmabat: The first SIPB advising study break happened last week, it was a good time, I am confirming with advisors and advisees. If you didn't fill out the form, let me know. If you did fill out the form, then I am in the process of confirming with you guys. Check your emails for stuff relating to that. emmabat: As for SIPB50, any updates Angel? alvareza: We are in the process of the confirming the final schedule, which we will be sending out soon! emmabat: We are still planning on doing a food mob, hopefully, the office will be hellishly packed next week. kenta: This is the first meeting I've been to this semester. I'm ken! ask me about bluespec. yczeng: we can do bring your own chair. Project Reports: cela: SIPB uplink had it's first meeting yesterday. If you are interested in building a chat client in athena, lmk. cela: scripts continues. If you are interested, come to the scripts meetings. emmabat: If you want people cela: XVM, debathena, and AFS should add project roles to the documents! jnoguera: Hi, I am josh, a new first year. rihn and I thought that we should work on sipb badges! so we are looking into making sipb buttons. we are thinking of having multiple tiers, so you can flex on people. We can make teams for different buttons. cela: Is this related to virtual badges? jnoguera: Yes. cela: but that was virtual badges! jnoguera: We know. kjchen: I am buying materials to make buttons for SIPB50! jnoguera: We might make a virtual version if we learn web stuff. emmabat: join us for a sipb50 button making party on friday! alvareza: don't we usually call these hackathons? yczeng: can you get a button for learning how to make the buttons! kenta: If you want to invent your own project, add it to the list. zackpi: student information processing buttons. Other: npfoss: Google claimed to achieve quantum supremacy. emmabat: They haven't given enough details to confirm. cela: if you have been paying attention to chef, It was used for contractor for a gov't agency, someone deleted the code they wrote for chef, causing some downtime. Chef pushed it themselves, and later decided that they would eventually leave the contract, and donate the proceeds to a charity. emmabat: we have replenished our stickers. we have new ones to hide your windows or mac button. bpchen: as of a week ago, I am a contributor to openssl vcharuvy: october is hacktober! cela: look up the hypocratic license. It is basically the MIT license, except with the first law. its really controversial. [reads license] cela: I suspect that it was more of stunt, than something to actually be used. emmabat: Since new people walked in, make sure to fill out the advising form! amigdal: systemd home-d is something reimplementing home directories! There is something about using passwords as encryption. quentin: Doesn't that already exist kenta: system-d is always reimplementing something that already exists. cela: disney cruise ships have on board kubernetes clusters. Other Other: kenta: the bands on disney cruise ships have repertoires of 200 songs. Election: vickiew: I am vickie, I helped with SIPBW, want to help with SIPBWISP. npfoss: close your eyes, list as many kerberoes of sipb mems vickiew: [names a lot of kerbs] cela: whats this? vickiew: the ctrl-alt-delte presser? [demonstrates ctrl-alt-delete] cela: how do you double space SIPB CPW? vickiew: [space][space]sipbw? npfoss: close your eyes, imagine theres a fire. vickiew: save the save in case of fire box? cela: whats in the save in case of fire box? [explanation of the DESpocolypse] npfoss: whats your favorite book from the sipb library? vickiew: numerical recipes in C npfoss: are you or have you ever been a member of the students for a democratic society? cela: name your favorite mythological thing that is an MIT service? vickiew: athena dzaefn: what is the oldest inanimate object that you can name? [everyone considers the question] cela: SIPB buys an aircraft carrier, what do you name it? vickiew: the aircraft carrier? I'm really bad at naming things, like variable names kenta: What is your best advice/impressions, having run SIPBW? vickiew: when I was running SIPBW I was stressed because I had to poke people, and people's availability changed. The people that come will emmabat: put your words of wisdom in the wiki please. cela: something we do well, something we should improve? vickiew: There is a low barrier of entry to projects, but there should be more chairs in the office. mwnguyen: how many SIPB offices could you fit in an aircraft carrier? vickiew: theres only one sipb office! npfoss: someone walks into the sipb office, asks to borrow our stapler, what do you do? vickiew: okay. npfoss: after they use the stapler, they ask what is SIPB anyway? vickiew: [perfect pitch of sipb] cela: the office phone rings and they ask about a problem with their EMACS mail client, what do you do? vickiew: mattermost? cela: you should ask them to email SIPB@ kenta: You can ask them to check if all of MIT mail is down, because THAT DOES HAPPEN! cela: name the least necesary SIPB service. kenta: pick something that is maintained by someone who cannot vote. vickiew: I dont know... can I pass jnoguera: Whats your favorite thing on the ceiling? vickiew: the cow cela: someone let wqian94 in dzaefn: where do you think wmoses is? vickiew: An event that ran over. cela: the FBI shows up in the office, what do you do? vickiew: tell them have the wrong office. kjchen: "NO YOU MAY NOT USE OUR STAPLER!" quentin: It wasn't taped, it was sitting on the floor, I am a direct source. cela: also emma, what would you do? emmabat: I would ask the previous chairs. yczeng: Why do you want to be a sipb member vickiew: I feel like SIPB people are cool. [vickiew is keyholdered: YNA: 11-0-0] The meeting was adjourned at 20:18. Minutes taken and submitted by alvareza.