Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 31 August 1981 The meeting was called to order at 19:34 by William M. York. In attendance were barmar, GMP, RK, MG, Naha, HGA, ACW, DCP, RDM, JIS, TZS, WMY, Alan, c/, RLL, LRH, Al Toussaint (prospective member) and Tony DellaFera (prospective member [trying again this year]). Late were: Jay, PAE, KYM, CAH, JIS, DMK, RSL The minutes of the meeting of 24 August 1981 were read and accepted as corrected. Jay fell in during this. Treasurer's Report: Jay added up the August numbers today. Total: $3820.86 Multics/370, $7697.63 for July and August. Over a third of our August charges were overhead. People should be frugal with their SIPB accounts. The weekly statuses are now in a three ring binder. To date this month: $323.56 on Multics. There was a problem with the monthly this month - it did not run before the center's billing, so the Coop people were not billed correctly - it will be fixed by hand in the near future. TriVi.Coop switched to Student at the beginning of July, and when we copied his hierarchy we didn't delete his Coop dir, so he accrued $32 worth of disk storage and owes us this money. We will absorb this charge. We will purchase another 1000 records of NBDD storage. PAE allegedly came in during this. Chairman's Report: The chairman still hasn't talked to Course 15. Al says that they have been beginning to win since last term - they are using CMS and Pr1me. The chairman will try to find FinBoard people when they all come back for the term. CCE meetings will be starting soon, too. Office Report: KTOC. The office is in relatively good shape. The name/address list will be redone in the near future. c/ threw out some old confiscated WatFiv decks, and other types of useless cruft. There are now a few free card drawers. We will need another file cabinet drawer for old applications. DCP will vacate his. People should clean out their junk from the Coke mine. It was suggested that the Honeywell animals be put back up on the wall. RLL talked to Leo Ryan about what happened to our stuff in the darkroom. He does not know, as his [Leo's] stuff disppeared too. He will look in the basement. When you are the last to leave the office, you should just lift the lid on the SpinWriter, so it doesn't print anything more. WMY will regrind a user list. He will probably do it once a term. KYM, CAH came in during this. KYM's plant is hanging from the ceiling. Naha broke the office hotplate. He will try to replace it. Computer Services: There is a second draft of the Coop Policy Statement on the board. Many things have been converted to use Supdup graphics protocol. When job description letters come in, they should be turned into job description forms. When you modify SIPB exec_coms and absins, don't forget to put a change log comment in. JIS still hasn't given SIPB_Consultant access to UNB. The "Unbound Freshmen" folder should be used for freshmen's applications who do not have housing assignments after the applications have been through the meeting. We will do a dump of the Student and Coop dirs tomorrow, and soon do a cleanup. Many of the Coop users have cutoff dates of tomorrow. They will not be extended until they explicitly ask. In the future, remember to get explicit cutoff dates from Coop users. WMY fixed the Student start_up so that it will warn a user if he/she/it is about to be cut off. In order to do this, he had to modify the "user" command in order to make this information accessible. JIS came in during this. The default absentee CPU limits are being changed, so RK modified the ear commands in the absins to specify a huge limit. The new version of PL/I has been installed - it uses -table by default. c/ and barmar have gotten through the F's in the old applications. They will try to arrange a marathon session in order to finish. Telecommunication Report: The LA120 was fixed. The letter to MacGregor about the stolen dataset was mailed. HGA will order SpinWriter ribbons. RLL can get us all the Vadics we need for the Activities Midway. What terminals do we want there? We will have a graphics terminal or two, and a vt100 or two. We should order a new dataset for MacGregor. Baud rate switch on the other Student Center Vadic - RLL should do it before the term starts. He will do it at the same time that he moves a terminal into a carol. Naha is still looking into getting a noise cover for the SpinWriter. It may not be so much of a problem once the 9700 is up and running. Publications Report: We are out of Emacs Intros - they will be ready at Beane II Tuesday afternoon. There is a new Office Manual. Read it, and make suggestions and corrections. CAH will redo the SIPB font catalogue, with info on super/subscripting. Copies will be put in the file drawer. Annual-Report Report: c/ and barmar have been working on typing in last terms applications, to be crunched on later. WMY has been working on the Annual Report. He will try to get a group together in order to type stuff in one night. R/O Report: There are 1026 frosh. There will be an Activities Open-House on Tuesday, the 8th, from 5 to 7 pm (right before the Computer Tour). We should arrange for some publicity and a map to show them where we are (since we are not in the Student Center like everyone else). Tfat said he would talk to the Daily Cofnunois about an entry for the Computer Tour. c/ will talk to them tonight. We need handouts for the Activities Midway. We have large size masters of the blue cards, which we can print up, and should print up some ECS handouts (perhaps correct the phone numbers). Alan is working on the Tour handouts. DCP is trying to get in touch with the right people for the EMS. Since CIPG will be dull again, they will get less time - JIS will talk to them and try to make them win. We shouldn't stay so late at the Midway this year - if we get an interested group of frosh, we should split and take them with us. Other: A user wanted a program that printed a banner. barmar found a program sort of like that on a very old backup tape, and is working on making it work. The 9700 doesn't have a backquote character. DMK came in during this. Gary's anyone program now uses value_. There will be an ExecCom election on Monday, 14 September 1981, as CAH and JIS will not be full members after Registration Day. Soley and JCG have been declared inactive. RSL came in during this. Election for the membership of Tanya Sienko: Elected anonymously. WMY impressed upon the membership the importance of setting a good impression for the frosh. Lyman Robert Hazelton has been nominated for membership in the SIPB. The election will be at the next meeting. Election policy - non-members are not kicked out during nomination votes. Supposedly, Xerox didn't write the software for the 9700, and several bugs have been found already. Applications: Golding, Michael - $100 - text editing, learn Lisp, general hackery. He will be working initially on his resume'. Alan suggests that we only give him $50. Given $50. Total appropriations: $1295 without Coop Autoed: Student: $1245 370: $0 To Meeting: $50, EC: $0, all Student. Coop: $120 Other Other: When CAH came home from his trip, he found someone living in his room. HGA has moved into CAH's and RDM's apartment. CAMEX is looking for programmers. RK laughs. ACW called his mother to invite her to his and J9's housewarming party, and she offered a present. They don't want any presents. They have completely moved out of their Somerville apartment. DMK's sister is now a published author; she has a story in a fantasy anthology called "Elsewhere" (Ace, 1981). She is named Ellen Kushner. RK's airconditioning in his car may get fixed soon; the part is in. Symbolics was written up again in the latest "Electronics" magazine. Henry Baker wrote a flaming letter in this month's SIGPLAN notices. We should spend approx. $50 on refreshments for after the computer tour. The labels on the manual racks seem to be working. WMY's Bell 212 modem was installed today. Some of us went to the Freshman Picnic. We got involved in a Freshman Discussion Group, and went on the roof while APO was trying to set up a poster. LRH has a program that adds copyright notices to object segments. the meeting was adjourned at 22:09 Minutes taken and submitted by Barry Margolin.