Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2020-10-26 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by wmoses. In attendance were Student keyholders: mrittenb, emmabat, wmoses, asahteck, kjchen, bds | gshay Associate keyholders: quentin, kenta | mcyoung, belmonte Members: mitimmy, arpl, kyeb | jnwagner, jboyedoe, cbsu, jeffery, denzel Guests: '() Administrivia: emmabat: I will go to the SIPB office at 11:30 Friday. If you need me to do anything, let me know. Tell me how to turn on the Hyades machine. We can take things out but not bring things in. wmoses: SAO says there is a form to fill out saying exactly what you want to do in the Stud and they will get back to you within a few days. emmabat: They responded to mine in a few hours. wmoses: Requirements: CovidPass, near campus, current student. wmoses: This does not necessarily fix the emergency stuff, because people can't get in on short notice. emmabat: IS&T is busy. kjchen: If people want SIPB branded items, we can get them from the office. emmabat: Shirts are in my house, but other things in my office. wmoses: If you have SMR stuff you want done, email Emma, ideally by Wednesday. quentin: Has the grocery store on the second floor of the stud opened yet? kyeb: My friends have been there. We have access to the stud. quentin: No learning spaces? emmabat: I do have learning spaces, I don't know if the Stud counts. asahteck: Are we still getting LLVM swag? wmoses: LLVM may be giving me sweaters and t-shirts. Project Reports: gshay: CourseRoad had our first weekly meeting, we are now meeting Wed at 5. We also deployed petitions. gshay: sipb-insights.scripts.mit.edu is now live, you can see attendance statistics. If you have a project, maybe fill out the contribution form. quentin: SIPB Jupyter has made progress, I would now call it alpha, it has a reasonable registration and login process. wmoses: at some point we will add more VMs quentin: no promises of reliability, but it's functional wmoses: edelman wants julia quentin: currently python, javascript, typescript, octave mrittenb: Scripts started installing a new SQL server. quentin: We finished. mrittenb: We finished installing, but it's not replicating yet. wmoses: SIPB cloud met, did some stuff asahhteeck: I gave a minecraft tour for parents weekend wmoses: We seemingly fixed a bug in mattermost that prevented emails from being sent. If you are still not getting an email, let me know. Other: bds: youtube-dl got a DMCA request on github, it got made less accessible, though there is still a certain link you can go to. quentin: also there are about a thousand mirrors by now bds: indeed, streisand effect emmabat: Spring calendar released today, make your plans accordingly. wmoses: if you want a super long IAP, now you can. emmabat: classes start late, they want to avoid the winter pandemic kyeb: did they go ahead with getting rid of spring break? emmabat: yeah [more discussion of spring break, snow days] asahteck: I was suggesting a "does MIT have snow" webcam that frosh can look at, since some will not be experiencing their first winter. quentin: anyone likely to be around in the spring with a view of briggs field? emmabat: No one knows yet Other Other: mrittenb: Oreo has made a vault for oreos so they survive the apocalypse mcyoung: Holy crap, that worked! I hate x86. kenta: doesn't x86 have multiple rings of hell? quentin: that's just the beginning of it. jnwagner: did you end up doing the puzzle hunt? quentin: no one managed to organize it emmabat: I was completely dead last week jnwagner: it was harder than I expected, but very fun. There was one based around taylor swift, one around triggering errors on the website wmoses: are people interested in doing Among Us? Sat? Sun? [discussion of time] kenta: Administrivia: this thursday is the ASA general body meeting. If you are interested in student government, you can show up. They are promising an open town hall meeting. emmabat: Apparently Halloween is this saturday. quentin: also, daylight savings time ends this weekend, extra hour emmabat: thank god for that extra hour of sleep asahteck: scones [emmabat and mcyoung discuss banana bread] kyeb: Thanks to Emma, I'm now on the MIT canvas committee, if you have complaints send them to me. asahteck: the notification process is very strange. kyeb: canvas is a mess of features some classes use, others don't mcyoung: holy crap, it worked! jnwagner: I think professors need a general overview of canvas norms, so they're not all in different places kyeb: I think I'm going to encourage a canvas knowledge base The meeting was adjourned at 19:55. Minutes taken and submitted by mrittenb.