MINUTES OF THE S.I.P.B. MEETING OF 25 JUNE, 1979 Present were ALAN, RDM, RDM'S younger brother, CAH, GMP, PAE, BSG, WOS, JSL, BIM, JG, CRD, c|, a user, and 54 on the phone from Kansas. Late were JIS, RLL, and 2S. The meeting was called to order at 19:35. There were no minutes from the last meeting. USER INTERRUPT: The user was a representative of the Black Student Union. The BSU wanted $100 to process mailing lists and keep a cross-referenced index of people's interests. (JIS came in at this point.) Mention was made of the BSU's going through us last year to get their terminal. (RLL and 2S came in at this point.) The BSU rep. said he had no experience with Multics, but he thought the sum requested would be enough for him to learn and for the address lists, etc., for the rest of the year. Given $100. RLL explained that the reasons for lack of last week's minutes were that after last week's meeting there was neither a SpinWronger nor a Diablow in the office, and just before this meeting, Tech Sq. was experiencing lossage due to lack of air conditioning due to a water main breaking there this afternoon, so they had not been output. TREASURER'S REPORT: We spent $3160.54 this month; it looks like we might just stay within our budget. Bills will run on 1 July. Project termination date is 30 June. Appropriate hackery will be done to continue all SIPB projects, etc. RLL has been working on the books, and will run CokeComm soon. RLL spoke to someone at FinBoard, who looked up the FinBoard meeting minutes and told him they gave us no money; RLL will complain. RLL also talked to Jean Bonney about getting the money for the LA120. CHAIRMAN'S REPORT: () OFFICE REPORT: KTOC; it has been a mess all week. The SpinWronger has arrived. Some Dad's Root Beer has also arrived (it comes via 7UP). There is lossage with respect to getting Dr. Brown's soda: it comes with the wrong kind of flip tops (they come off the cans) and thus cannot legally be sold in Massachusetts starting 1 July. So the people we used to get it from won't sell it in Massachusetts (including to us) any more. It will only come in bottles, which would be a loss to get. c| rearranged the bookshelves. RDM repeated his complaint of last meeting that people should check the book sign-out lists and bring back the stuff they have signed out. MUTLIX REPORT: JIS accidently ran a second weekly last week; it doesn't seem to have damaged anything. Hackers are requested and pleaded with to check out changes they make to the public library before installing them, to reduce subsequent lossage. CAH suggests that we create a SIPBtest.SIPB, with a Student (moderately vanilla) environment, for testing changes in, so that people's specific environments won't obscure the ways changes would work in non-specialized environments. PAE talked with Prof. Licklider about 6.030 (Licklider is the lecturer for next fall and PAE is the project administrator), and would appreciate any suggestions about how to do things. CAH arranged the final details of the LA120 deal today; it should go into effect tomorrow, and SIPBprint.SIPB will presumably not log in any more. BSG says that another MUTLIX is coming onto the ARPANET -- CNO MUTLIX at Honeywell Corporate Headquarters in Minneapolis. CAH is now registered on 5 MUTLICES. 370 REPORT: () ECS REPORT: () CS REPORT: () SIPBTEXT REPORT: () TELECOMMUNICATIONS REPORT: RLL spoke to Dean Holden today. Everyone in the Institute seems to be having a vacation this week, so next week they will try to speak to Mr. Cavanaugh about the Student Center room. Dean Holden has a letter somewhere in the piles of paper in his office stating the exact amount of money we got for the room; he thinks it's about $9K. He will try to find the letter before next week. The $9K will pay for electrical outlets, lighting, air conditioning, and paint. People should check out the complaints we have had about the terminals in Random and New House. RLL mentioned that SIPB members have often been terminal chairmen in their various dorms, which insures them of having a key to the terminal room. The 2 new Telerays should be coming soon. RLL thinks that Teleray is waiting for Roger's order before making the PROMS -- they are apparently called "SIPB PROMS", and include the META key. People should read the long story about the flaming KL10 in the 6/24 Daily. PUBLICATIONS REPORT: Naha took the LISP Notes to Beane, and for some reason got them offset. He asked for 50 copies. Due to offsetting, the price will have to go up to $3 or $3.25, depending on what the final cost is. RLL says to bill people you send LISP Notes to for postage; the person in Japan whom we sent a copy to sent us back a dollar bill, a $.22 postal order, and a letter saying it took a month for the LISP Notes to get there, and asking about our other publications and activities . People should comment on the SIPB.info and the SIPBregistrar.info documentation on the board. OTHER: Penny is trying (again) to generate some interest in creating a pseudo-annual report (BIM muttered in the background about being willing to write up stuff if people would give him stuff to write up.), and suggested that maybe people should meet after the meeting. APPLICATIONS: We received a report from Huber.SIPBTEXT. Given: Auto, $195 on Student Taken to meeting: $100 on Student (the BSU application) Meurer wanted to learn TROLL. DGH took the application and didn't put down any amount (which is not unreasonable because she probably had no idea of what kind of amount to put down). Given $75, presuming signature in blood and so forth. Also, Bloom brought in $20 and was given $20 G&C (He wants to edit text, among other things.) OTHER OTHER: 54 had been on the phone at the beginning of the meeting. He is in the hospital in Kansas, and is getting better. BSG is now back from the wild West. BIM brought up the idea that, rather than buy a special SpinWronger table that will let us feed paper up through it (which is being considered), we should instead take a saw or other applicable implement of destruction to the table the SpinWronger is currently sitting on. He pointed out that cutting a hole in it would not cause any problem for using other typwriters/terminals/etc. on the table. RLL asked that people clean out the cabinet for transient materials. RDM introduced his brother Don (who is working and therefore living here for the summer), and explained that Don was bored, and would greatly appreciate being taken roof-hacking, or lost in the Combat Zone, or something like that. CAH said that HSSP, SIPBAPL, and SIPBNBDIR (not SIPBIAP) will disappear at the end of the month. He was asked why SIPBNBDIR and explained that we don't need a separate dir to keep track of NBDD expenses, just a separate userid, which is SIPB_maint. We will fudge money in any necessary way to keep the projects running until we get a budget. The meeting was adjourned at 20:09. Remissfully suspected, c|