Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 26 October 1981 The meeting was called to order at 18:02 by William M. York. The meeting was being held early because several members wanted to go see the John Dykstra lecture. In attendance were RLL, barmar, GMP, DCP, DMK, Lai, Alan, CAH, WMY, WER, RDM, Naha, HDT, JR, ADF, RK, Jay, J9, JIS. Late were: HGA, TZS, KYM, JCG, c/, DPC The minutes of the meeting of 19 October 1981 were read and accepted as corrected. HGA came in during this. *** User Interrupt *** MIT Black Christian Fellowship - to write a constitution - they are not yet officially recognized by the ASA, which is why they are writing a constitution. Given $30. Bloomfield, Lincoln - $840 - for 42 freshmen to use CASCON on Multics for his feshman seminar. This is a much larger group than he had in previous years, when we did it in a much more informal way. CAH noted that we have a policy against giving computer time for course-work that requires computer time. Prof. Bloomfield mentioned that this is just a freshman seminar, and as such he is volunteering his time and the seminar program has no funds and cannot get department funds. J9 noted that it is only $20/student. There was discussion over whether we should try to get Wes Burner to fund it; maybe only in the future if it gets larger. Given. The funds will actually be given out when the individual students come in. He has given us a list of the students' names. We will work out further logistics soon. *** End User Interrupt *** Treasurer's Report: Jay made new fascist graphs. They have higher maxima. Multics YTD: $19,200 MTD: $6200. The month ends on Wednesday. We are doing better than last year. *** User Interrupt *** Black Students Union - $200 - Was originally deferred until they come to meeting - Building a database and database software to handle members, finances, and companies. Understands that we are only willing to fund development, and are willing to fund the ongoing running. Given $50; if and when they come back for more, we want a more detailed description of their plans. *** End User Interrupt *** TZS, KYM, JCG came in during this. Members' bills are on the blackboard. We got another copy of the September phone bill this week. We applied for and were granted a credit for money HDT lost last week due to an exec_com bug. CAH made a change to display_sipb_accounting to print out users' amounts allocated and their cutoffs. Chairman's Report: Elections: There are 17 active-full members, and 16 (!) of them are here. We are voting for the membership of Howard Trachtman and Jon Rochlis. They were asked what they has done for the Board. Jon has hung around, taken applications, run the daemon, helped type in stats. Jon wants to help people learn about computers. Howard has hung around, taken many applications, learned about the computer, helped people. He likes helping people and wants to learn better how Multics works, if it stays alive. RK noted that they have both been around alot recently and have helped a good deal, so if you don't know them it is YOUR fault. Votes: HDT: 14-0-2, JR: 14-1-1. Multics isn't quite dead yet. Honeywell marketing chewed out the management for capping Multics, because they will lose LOTS of potential revenues. One of the salesmen said that he could sell twelve ~$1M processors next year, but if Multics is dying he won't be able to sell any. Honeywell has a new VP in charge of Software Development. WMY talked to Dorothy Corbett today about the SIPB members who are supposed to be made OLCs. It will happen soon. Office Report: The Spinwriter daemon-running procedures have changed. The new procedures will be posted. The change will allow us to use the spinwriter as a login terminal, as many people have complained about it being a dedicated service. There is a problem that the procedures include typing in a password which does not get masked, so be careful. KTOC. Computer Services: RK moved that SIPB_admin.* be made project administrator for those projects that SIPB_admin.SIPBADMIN is the administrator, in case something happens to the SIPBADMIN project. CAH thinks it would be a security problem. It passes. Don't use JJ's account for things that don't need to be done as him. Paper and ribbons should be delivered to the Student Center. You can't auto applications for groups, students at other schools, or SIPB members. Take a reason even for Coop applications. RK submitted our AML updates on Friday. Telecommunication Report: WER is working on the dataset order form. Next House hasn't sent us the liability agreement, and we don't think that they have gotten their dataset. Publications Report: Naha fixed up the confusion with Beane overcharging us (see last week). KYM will finish up the Coop policy statement. Annual-Report Report: The statistics typing in have been finished. RK has compiled some figures from them with a program he wrote, and GMP will probably do the full crunching this week. RK and WMY burned out Saturday night, working on the Annual report. We still need a financial report, and Jay has agreed to work on getting the numbers for us. More corrections are wanted. There will be some action Thursday night at 19:30. Other: Do we want to renew our "Electronics" subscription? We will renew it and "Computerworld". We have collected enough money for a "Journal of Irreproduceable Results". DCP will order it. Applications: The autoed applications were read this afternoon. Hill, Lynn - $20 Coop to EC - She is a Columbia grad student. She needed to use the Consistent System for a day. Mallalieu, Kim - $70 - for text editing for course work. Has had $80, all before the term started. Given. Rao, Satish - Warning Form - Was printing out membership lists for a fraternity. He didn't realize it was not allowed. He was turned on. Lai, Richard - $50 - to learn Multics, Emacs, and PL/I. Given. Gonzalez, John - $75 - To keep on text editing. Has had $150. He is taking a writing course, a poli-sci course and 6.033. He has been working after midnight a good deal. JIS mentioned that we have turned down this amount of money for regular users, but we are being overly greasy when we freely give it to a member. Given. c/ came in during this. Total appropriations: $2040 without Coop Autoed: Student: $1730 370: $50 To Meeting: $225, EC: $0, all Student. Coop: $20 Other Other: MC got a new T300 disk, and now pack 13 is the last thing on the reap path. See the system message or DCP. Some twits suggested that we have other meetings at different times. DPC came in during this. LSP was here this weekend. The meeting was adjourned at 19:45. Minutes taken and submitted by Barry Margolin.