Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2025-09-01 The meeting was called to order at 19:37 by psvenk. In attendance were Student keyholders: psvenk, turino14, suufi, xy, innaavo, nmorgan, anhad Associate keyholders: almonds Members: guoj1112, kshitij, ilyag Guests: ishaana, ryanruiz, durgan, Jacob Spunt, emmiee, kikimora Administrivia: psvenk: Lower attendance than usual, probably because it's Labor Day. To all the frosh, I hope you don't take away that this is what SIPB is like, it probably won't be like this next week. If it is, color me shocked. If you're here, you've probably heard the spiel. We run a lot of volunteer services for the community. innaavo: I wish my computer was working but Microsoft Windows is not responding. Here is what our donations look like. We got about $2000 in donations mostly in December and January and some at the end of the year. Most of the money went to the SMR, we spent more than our old yearly budget on the machine room. psvenk: For context, our old budget was $11,000. We brought it up to $19,000 last year. innaavo: We spent around $5000 total on food; much of the food allocation went to SIPB55; maybe we can spend that money on other things next year. innavo: I'm Inna, I'm the treasurer. I'm also involved in WMBR. turino14: I'm Luis, I'm [...]. I lead the SMR. suufi: I'm Moh, I work on OpenGrades and SIPBGo. guoj1112: I am guoj1112 and I work on hydrant and ARK nmorgan: [spiel] ryanruiz: my name is ryan, I'm looking to major in 6-3 or 6-5 xy: I'm anthony, I'm a senior majoring in 6-3 and 18, and I'm maintaining the Mastodon instance. It's a bit like twitter but open source and decentralized ishaana: I'm ishaana, I'm a freshman and I'm planning to major in 6-3 kshitij: I'm kshitij. I graduated from BU and I more or less work for the military and I studied remote sensing and plasmas in the upper atmosphere psvenk: I did not get enough sleep last night if you could not tell already, we can't hear you ilyag: I'm ilyag I mostly work on project ARK and some random things in the server room. kenta: I'm kenta, I'm cruft, most recently I've been working on locker software on athena. You can install it on sipb's file server and it'll become available to anyone on athena. skylarh: I'm Skylar, majoring in 6-3 and 8 mainly working on eventful and my computer's about to die so give me a moment kikimora: I'm also frosh, probably 6-3 and 17 and I'm interested in AI and ML security psvenk: Sorry this was a very unplanned meeting. Most of our meetings were not like this. It's very unfortunate that this is your first introduction to SIPB. Please accept my apologies. turino14: This is meeting 0. Next meeting will be meeting 1. guoj1112: If I come in person I will remember to bring a computer so that way I can type faster if I'm needed as a backup Project Reports: turino14: Hwops is continuing Friday and the rest of this semester. We also want to make a Proxmox cluster or if hyades gets really exciting, to make it easier for projects to spawn a virtual machine much faster. suufi: OpenGrades is almost at 10000 grade points. guoj1112: For Ark, I recently installed mypy to cut down on type errors. skylarh: Eventful continues. It's now deployed at eventful.mit.edu and worked for REX. It worked for about 50% of users and the other 50% could not scroll down; I don't know why. Other: xy: There's a phishing campaign going on at MIT with people's emails hacked sending out emails trying to get you type your password into a form. kenta: MIT seems to be phasing out web certificates in favor of typing in your Kerberos password in[to a form], with Okta. scj643: The reason is because the root cert expires soon. It's probably not going to be renewed. psvenk: Seems like the information wasn't propagated out since there are still many sites that use certificate authentication exclusively. kenta: I filed a bug report for debian OpenAFS but it was a duplicate. Most of the Debian maintainers of OpenAFS are SIPB people. turino14: SIPB is known as a provider of staples. Have you ever heard of a staple-less stapler? Here's a demonstration. psvenk: It's supposed to be good for the environment, but it comes apart easily. kenta: It's also nicer for little children so they don't stab themselves. scj643 (arriving in person): I made it Other Other: scj643: I have a 5070 TI because my 3080 TI died. It's good. kshitij: I asked for advice about aesthetically good Python packages and was recommended the book in the corner Software Design for Flexibility: How to Not Code Yourself Into a Corner. It's really good. Now my package has 5000 users. scj643: Time to get setup for GitHub Sponsors then The meeting was adjourned at 20:16. Minutes taken and submitted by xy and guoj1112 (on a phone).