Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2022-04-04 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by jmvidal. In attendance were Student keyholders: bds, cjq, huydai, jmvidal, jnwagner, mitimmy, jeffery Associate keyholders: '() Members: agrebe, cbsu, markchil, toomas Guests: '() Administrivia: huydai: proposes allocation of $125 for sipb party, for buying pizzas and soda. bds: what is the food policy of sipb? is it just, whatever? cjq: yes. mitimmy: the office rules are different, right? huydai: the rules in the door were last updated in september. we said 10 people at a time, no eating full meals. i guess we can, i think it's been long enough that policies have change. does that require us to do a change right now? bds: i think that was something kjchen said "here, i drafted this, does this look okay?" and people said "yeah that looks good". so maybe just draft a new set of policies and say this is what we're doing now? huydai: i can do that. we can't force prefrosh to wear masks, right? toomas: we can't force that though, or kick them out if they don't wear masks. but we can strongly encourage them to wear a mask. huydai: yeah, so for everyone running events, comfort with number of people, etc. anyway, allocation? bds: i'll second. mitimmy: i'll third, i guess. huydai: motion to white ballot? cjq: seconded jmvidal: any objections? motion passes. *gavel* toomas: computer panel is happening on saturday 5pm in the office. i need people to show up, and prefer if people commit to show up beforehand, because right now it's just me and huy. agrebe: what do you want people showing up to do? just be here or have to say intelligent things? toomas: just be here and answer questions. agrebe: i'm happy to be here and answer questions that i know the answer to, but i know less about the inner workings of sipb than most of you. huydai: that's good enough. agrebe: saturday, 5pm, here? bds: it's on the sipb calendar as well. huydai: i also brought this up on mattermost, but how would you feel about doing the pc build during that time? toomas: i personally don't care. bds: but do you want people with pizza fingers…? huydai: well, not for the party, for the panel thing. toomas: i personally don't care. mitimmy: i also need to come up with questions for trivia. huydai: sure, i can help lead that. if no one has questions that's something that can happen too. also for the party, saturday 11pm to 1am. there's pizza! and soda! cjq: also, machine room tours on thursday. bds: yeah, i'll be there, any number of other people may show up as well. cjq: we also have midway on saturday. bds: from the time, i remember seeing the max, and a desktop with the headset that people can play around a little bit. jmvidal: is max working? bds: it turns on at least. huydai: we don't have anyone responsible for midway right now. mitimmy: is it long? cjq: it's 1pm to 3pm. i'll need help with setup, bringing computers and stuff from the office, and teardown. mitimmy: we'll see. i can try. jeffery: i can potentially help with setup. i'll be around, i might be circulating between different groups, but i can hop by sipb and help carry stuff. cjq: yeah, if people can be in the office at around noon, that'll be helpful! huydai: last thing, use of the office as a whole. feel free to come by and use the office! just come here from time to time and study and stuff. we should make this office a more useful space again, with people coming and stuff. we should also, and we can talk about this later, reorganize and get rid of some clutter. Project Reports: markchil: projects database continues. getting the backend together with javier. we have rough drafts of almost all major frontend components. it's coming together. mitimmy: hwops continues. we sent a bump to the great restructing document, name should be familiar. you should read it if it concerns you, you should've gotten a bump on that email. i believe that's the main, yeah. also giving tours, but that was talked about. huydai: sipb wisp, we were meant to send a revised proposal earlier, but people were busy so we didn't do any edits. i'll sit tonight or tomorrow night to get a revised thing out, but if people have time, just having somebody to bounce thoughts off, that'll be nice. tonight or tomorrow night. Other: mitimmy: is&t now requires touchstone to access your mit email, since today. it probably broke a lot of things. for me, tried to get it work on my phone, i don't want to use the outlook app, i don't know what to do. but things have been broken. jmvidal: for linking other email accounts? mitimmy: no, just signing into email, you need touchstone now. you need 2fa now, so it breaks some email clients. jmvidal: wasn't that the case since last year? mitimmy: i think they did that for some, but i think it's strictly enforced, as of today. agrebe: as of two days ago owa.mit.edu helped me sign in for email. mitimmy: shouldn't work now? agrebe: thunderbird still works for me. toomas: think i sent an email from gmail under my kerb, and i didn't use touchstone for that. mitimmy: i dunno. bds: yeah, but once you're signed in... toomas: well, to receive email, yes, but not to send. mitimmy: interesting, this should not work. cjq: well, iirc the way sending email works is that your client just forwards it to mit's mail servers, so you don't actually need to authenticate if it trusts your client? jnwagner, in chat: mine broke today so this makes sense. toomas: all i know is whenever i change my password i need to redo it. huydai: as an aside, if anyone's on zoom having trouble following the conversation, please speak up. jmvidal: the gpu market is slowly returning to normal. toomas: did anyone say that cpw is sooner than you think? huydai: cpw is sooner than you think. jmvidal: when is cpw? … oh, this week. bds: amazing how we're talking about ordering food for this week… toomas: and we're talking about people showing up this week… huydai: so ready for jmvidal to show up next week and wonder where everyone is. jmvidal: no, was just asking more specifically when it started. huydai: well, thursday night to like, the weekend. bds: mostly sunday. "weekend". Other Other: cbsu, in chat: graduation is sooner than you think jmvidal: it's almost summertime. toomas: we're already on summertime. bds: isn't it past spring yet? toomas: well, timezones, there's summertime and wintertime. we've been in summertime for a few weeks now. bds: rather than our old vibe headset, we now have an index with fun finger tracking controllers, that's cool. huydai: i played with it over the weekend, shooting games and stuff. it was pretty good. still get the issue that things just… bds: fly off, into the distance, yeah. either the trackers are in the wrong place or misconfigured. we can experiment with it. huydai: i also added signs outside the door, advertising sipb and how to check when the office is open. jmvidal: what happened to door stapler? is it dead, forever? huydai: if someone wants to try punching out the top of the old stapler to replace it. but yeah, it's broken, for now. bds: we probably have a hammer somewhere in this room. or some kind of object we can use to hammer. The meeting was adjourned at 19:53. Minutes taken and submitted by cjq.