Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2019-10-07 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by emmabat. In attendance were Student keyholders: alvareza, cela, emmabat, bpchen, mtheng, wmoses, npfoss, zackpi, gshay | yczeng Associate keyholders: quentin, merolish | wqian94, madars Members: bds, rihn, jnoguera, mrittenb, kjchen, justicev, mau, joshuaw, mitimmy, maximo, amanti, fsdi321, jmvidal, curtiss, mayalk | jkoppel Guests: eltonlin Administrivia: emmabat: First things first, we have two keyholdership elections, bds and kjchen. Also, sipb advising is still happening, we will have a study break next week. If you submitted the form late, I will still match you to an advisor. Angel and I have a meeting with Mark Silis tomorrow, expect updates at next weeks meeting, If there is anything you want us to talk about, let me know. Project Reports: cela: scripts meetings continues, tuesdays at 9pm. Uplink had a second meeting this weekend, it took us a long time to get to the install screen on XVM. Hyades also continues, slower, but it continues. zackpi: I started the sipb archiving project. If you are interested in scanning the documents in those filing cabinets, let me know. I'm trying to figure out what scanner would work best. emmabat: for context, we still have all of our old minutes in our drawer. cela: any reason we cant use the library scanner? zackpi: I went to the library, and did some test scanning, the main problem was that the document I tried was bound, which meant I had to hold it down. emmabat: you could try asking the archives for advice, we would like to keep our records, hence why we want to do it ourselves. zackpi: I want to figure out a system for the archiving project. Finding an efficient way to do it before actually doing all the documents. zackpi: the office is messy. As office czar, I am mandating that at the end of each meeting, look in a direction, and something is messy, then pick it up and put it in a better place. wmoses: SIPBWISP is going to have it's first meeting on thursday at 5pm gshay: will it be at that time every week? wmoses: tentatively, that was the best time on the when2meet cela: mastadon got around to migrating their hardware, they now have physical machines and they are back up. Other: npfoss: there is a when2meet competitor called whenUfree, that is a new version of when2meet. It was made by a current/ish MIT student quentin: It would be nice if it was opensource and we could run it as a service. zackpi: proposal to make a sipb when2meet replace ment Other Other: zackpi: If you have an interest in amiga paraphenalia, then take a look over here, because they will be put on reuse tonight. npfoss: Isn't there a new MacOS version? jkoppel: catalina eltonlin: I have been working on a SIPBesque project, I had to print something today, but I didn't want to get my laptop. I am working on a mobile app to print to athena cluster. quentin: there is a sipb project, quickprint, that goes to the web, but an actual app sounds amazing. emmabat: Do you want it to become a SIPB service? I would really appreciate this to be a thing. making it a sipb project means it would be better tracked in terms of development and maintainers. eltonlin: that sounds great emmabat: we will see what we can do. wqian94: as of yesterday, there has been a second whistle blower in the trump case. It was a wild ride. now he is advocating for people to go kill the whistle blowers. Better yet, senator lindsey graham has threatened to reveal the identities quentin: I have something to add, bojo (boris johnson) just said that if the queen fires him, he refuses to leave 10 downing st. eltonlin: I have a sipb project proposal, I am working on a website called explainMIT, where students can explain difficult concepts to each other, and can be archived for future stuff. emmabat: I think this aligns with SIPB's goals, in trying to teach stuff cela: see if you can use existing software, to make it easier to develop, like see if there is something like stack overflow would help. npfoss: the project already exists, it is currently useable. Election: emmabat: proceed to the front of the room. emmabat: can you introduce yourselves. who are you? kjchen: who are we? why do we exist? are we even real? Hi I'm kjchen, I have helped with publicity, and with SIPB50 trying to produce stuff. In terms of future projects, I'm a bit fried right now, but I would like to continue pushing out the word about sipb bds: I'm Ben, I'm a freshman, I have just been all over SIPB stuff, I am interested in WISP, which I helped move stuff, I also helped make buttons and fuzzballs for SIPB50. cela: how do you double space a golden fuzzball? kjchen: trick question, you don't its one word. yczeng: what do you like most about SIPB? kjchen: we do interesting things, Its kinda entertaining. its hard to define what we do, since we do so much. bds: I really enjoy SIPB's community, we have tons of extremely knowledgeable people all under one roof. cela: list out as many people as you can who are affiliated with SIPB? [lists out names] mwnguyen: a large mob of alums show up to the sipb office, how do you optimize the office for them? cela: what is this? [ctrl-alt-deleter] cela: what do you do if the office is on fire? kjchen: sacrifice our mortal bodies, to save the save in case of fire box? kjchen: hell is here and we are in it. cela: well.. more specifically... emmabat: what do you do if the computers gain sentience? kjchen: call the chair. emmabat: what would I do if you called me? [discussion] emmabat: whats behind the door? kjchen: squircles? emmabat: [demonstrates breaker box] cela: close your eyes, name your favorite on the cork board? bds: root ops kjchen: poultry princess. npfoss: alternate naming stuff on the ceiling? npfoss: do you know what the disks are for? alvareza: name some of the office heads/athena dialup? cela: someone walks into the office and asks for help to install a secure email server, what do you do? bds: its not worth it. Ask someone else. cela: someone calls the office and asks about emacs. kjchen: hang up. npfoss: the correct answer is to tell the to mail sipb@ mwnguyen: sipb recieves a 1mil alumni donation, what do you do? cela: the FBI walks into the office, what do you do? kjchen: call Emma? cela: why does sipb need an aircraft carrier? bds: howl's moving castle, but SIPB addition. kjchen: move in style. kjchen: I think its a cool space with cool people, I would like to be in bds: It is a cool space with cool people, it would be cool to interact with you people more [kjchen YNA - 11 - 0 - 0 ] [bds TNA - 11 - 0 - 0 ] [kjchen is keyholdered] [bds is keyholdered] emmabat: any last comments? zackpi: look at something, and if it dirty try to make it not dirty! The meeting was adjourned at 20:28. Minutes taken and submitted by alvareza.