Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 31 January 1983 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by Barmar. In attendance were Voting members: Alan, Barmar, BCN, CBF, DIM, PLJ, PSR Late were: JR, RDZ, TZS And: Amy, GMP, JSL, Naha, RK, Bob Weiner, JIS ->MTG APPLICATIONS (and EC) Schmitt, Margaret $100 for editing papers has had $250 so far this year. Motion by GMP to give, amended to be only $50 by RK. Motion passes. Motion by CBF to give another $50 bringing total to $100 asked for. Passes. Huang, Jim $200 for a UROP project studying dynamics of windmill farms. Given. Boyce, William H., no amount for cover letters, previously had $150 for cover letters, resume, and course work. Given $25. Huang, Y. T. $50 for editing papers, had $150 for learning CMS and editing resume and papers. Given at discretion of office coolie. Hom, Marvin $50 learn pl1 & pascal. Has had $250 for text editing for coursework and a little Lisp programming. Given. Marvin, Katherine $50 on CMS to maintain proficiency. WMBR - additional funds to maintain log and for calculations to support application to FCC for higher power and stereo. JIS, TZS entered at this point. Thompson, E. S. Whitney for Coop account to lean every language under the sun. A vote approves him for a Coop account. Tindell, Michael $75 for resumes and 40 pages of unspecified. Previously had $150 for text processing unspecified. Deferred to a meeting. TREASURER'S REPORT January Spending (Mutlics): 8,239.20 (SIPB/SIPBADMIN 1696 20%) YTD (Multics): 62,355.25 (end of Jan.) : 63,477.88 (as of Today) MTD (Multics): 1,122.63 (SIPB/SIPBADMIN 140 12%) (disk 396.34 35%) Jeff spoke about the pie slice. It would probably cost $150,000 for something on the order of a 10-15% share of Multics. There is a question of how quickly the deal can be made. It is not clear whether we want to try and start it this fiscal year or not. No real decision is made. CHAIRMAN'S REPORT J9 told Barry this week that she is resigning from the EC because she doesn't think she spends enough time in the office. Thus there will be 2 EC members and the Chair up for election next Monday. If an EC member is elected chairman, then 3 EC slots will be vacant. Barry says he plans tonight (to resign? no) to send out mail announcing the "various positions" (let's hear it for those positions Barry.) OFFICE REPORT RK gave the office a lesson on the use of coat racks. This was followed by a lesson in the tying of shoelaces. COMPUTER SERVICES A motion to turn shift 1 on passes. Barry asks whether we want to reset the spending of people who have been date cutoff to equal their spending. The purpose of this is so that they do not start with their previous terms funding this term should they reapply. There is a motion to do this and make the labels to stick on the applications like last year. Passes. RK says he has recieved complaints about SIPBOLC people not being logged in as OLC and also that students' papers were found in the SIPBOLC hierarchy (horrors). JIS warns us that nbdd may go away with the new Multics configuration (after the move). TELECOMMUNICATIONS REPORT meeting adjourned at 21:18. meeting readdjourns at 21:20. There was a smoke filled room meeting. BCN reads the minutes of the meeting. CBF expresses some doubts about the proposal of the smoke filled room which calls moving terminals out of the student center, which may limit the total number of terminals that we can put in the student center. RK moves to approve proposal of the smoke filled room except amending it to thange the two D.C. Hayes specified in the motion to two UDS modems. CBF moves to amend the report of the meeting to not specify the types of modems in the proposal. RK moves to cutoff discussion. Motion passes. Discussion is cutoff before CBF can give any reasons. The motion to accept the report of the committee passes. RK makes a motion to move the new LA120 into the student center and connect it to a modem. Motion passes. There is an additional motion to take the spare Vadic out of the office and put it in the student center with the understanding that it is a spare vadic that can be removed whenever necessary. Passes. RK moves to write a letter to telecommunications to install 2 new lines in Burton and Random with standard (class E or F, whichever can dial tie lines) rotary phones, and one line in the Student Center... uh, motion cancelled. New motion to upgrade the 113 modem in Random hall .. never mind. Barry makes a motion to do the right thing. Passes by voice vote. RK makes another motion to not sell anymore acoustic couplers. Passes. TERMINAL REPORT RK points out that there was a problem with an H19 in the student center, which was swapped, but that no TTR was made. JR starts to write during the meeting. PUBLICATIONS REPORT 225 NUMS and NETS are waiting at Beane. 25 will be ready tomorrow afternoon, more will be ready next Monday. RK says that people should be reminded that "they should not just blindly take posessions of the office out and do whatever they feel like with them". IAP REPORT Barry says we should think about how IAP went, that we might be more help to the person running the text processing seminar and that we tell people about the labs in the Lisp course. RK says we should publicize the Multics course if we have it next year. OTHER PLJ moves to nominate Amy for membership. Passes. APPLICATIONS Total appropriations: $ (without Coop) Autoed: Student: $ 370: $ EC: Student: $ 370: $ To Meeting: Student: $ 370: $ Coop: $ The acting secretary did not stay for the totalling of the applications, as it did not appear anyone was doing them. OTHER OTHER Today was MIT sun temple day but it was cloudy. Gill turned in his thesis. The meeting was adjourned at 22:03 Minutes taken and submitted by CBF