Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 06/22/98 The meeting was called to order at 7:30 by elliot. In attendance were Voting members: sepherke elliot pipa yoav yak klmitch yandros nygren sit jmorzins yonah jdaniel | nathanw srz jered Associate members: jhawk marc jemorris jtkohl mycroft kcr mhpower jewell Non-voting members: Prospectives: lnemzer lockhart xela tb tivol | lgdean sly Guests: Treasurer's Report: yoav: Our treasurer sucks. jhawk: We've lost our chance to order things. It's a good indicator of our fiscal incompetancy. We should replace the treasurer if necessary. nygren: A number of people have wanted to allocate money to buy things. We didn't know how much we had, so we didn't. mhpower: Memory for portnoy never bought. Chairman's Report: jemorris: Has the EC done anything about the Constitution packaging? elliot: No. jemorris: They should. Office Report: marc: Office has become much louder recently and has annoyed various people. If you're in the office, remember that it not a place for loud screaming conversations. mhpower: Last week there was a motion about the couch. Has anyone done research into couches? pipa: The general feeling from the office that didn't want a couch until a month after we moved back into the office. mhpower: pipa should have sent mail. [discussion] jemorris: The Drawer Map has been updated. The file has moved to /afs/sipb/project/office/layout since that's where other layout stuff is; a printout is in the corner of the BB. People should look it over and decide if their drawer is accurately mapped. sepherke: We have a new sign on the door. klmitch: The first two volumes of Knuth came in. jhawk: We need longer phone cords. Someone should look into this. jered: Things were aggressively cable tied. Some was unecessary. gisele: We should unpack stuff that hasn't been unpacked yet. elliot: Someone should deliver the Thank You note to Rose. gisele: I'll be gone until the 4th July, so someone should take over office czar. yoav: While unpacking the office, I noticed that the monolith is full of stuff that is completely junk and should go to reuse. jhawk: Some of that stuff is useful. I don't think there is competition for that space, esp without Office Czar. yoav: I am willing to nominate myself to deal with this. tb: You should post a list of items to be thrown away to email and then keep things that people say they want. yoav: I will make a friendly amendemnt. yandros: Can you make a list? yoav: I don't feel like wasting my time. If people don't think it's worth it, then I won't deal. The stuff back there is taking up a lot of space and it's not being used. jhawk: I object. [discussion] kcr: I would like to close discussion [ Motion ] I move that I, yoav, do hereby go through the two monoliths and make a list of stuff to throw away. I will send this list to sipb-office and on any item on which I get at least 2 objections will not dispose of. All other items I will dispose of at my discretion. [seconded] 5-9-5 motion fails. yak: There is a plant over there. pipa: It's mine. nygren: The office seems larger but config seems cramped. pipa: xcb memory panicked again tody, including the first two lines of the error message. jhawk: It's known to have a bad simm. marc: I have sent the entire panic text to people who will deal. mycroft: What is the situation with that bookcase? (by oliver.mit.edu) sly: I was one of the people who put the bookcase there. It's a heavy bookshelf and we're concerned that the table may not support. tb: The tables are sturdy. yandros: Didn't we want to get rid of that shelf? mhpower: It was actually discussed that we were not going to move that shelf back in earlier. jhawk: Has the carpet been vacuumed? [Rose wanted to know] tb: Office rock has been found. elliot: Move to laminate "Nice people article at MIT" up to $5. kcr: I object, get a new copy elliot: Amended. [seconded] [White ballot] Office Cleaning Report: pipa: People should not leave half empty cans on the desks. tivol: People should leave out half full cans. MIT Computing Report: tb: I would like a volunteer to build NetBSD binaries for GNU locker, if not, then the Athena port will be inferior. If you want to help send me email. yoav: I'll do it. yandros: There is a patch release tonight. Computer Services: sit: Will binkley will be replaced or dealt with? jhawk: Hasn't been dealt with. Needs to be plugged in. jhawk: We got some of the afs disks today. One was DOA. yoav: People should watch afs partitions. We have to rebalance some. klmitch: Saw a sparc going to binkley. jhawk: Binkley will actually operate, but you can't plug the monitor in. jdaniel: jweiss sent mail, tried to plug monitor in and it didn't work. [discussion] mhpower: Do we have a straightforward way of fixing binkley or monetary? jhawk: This hasn't been dealt with. jhawk: We got rid of a lot of boxes from the machine room. SIPB Backup Report: pipa: The ops drive has been returned. The new exobyte is happy. People should do backups so that foley can upgrade. Tape area is messy. Would like to alloc up to $40 to get wooden tape crates. [seconded] [white balloted, pipa will deal] Publications Report: jhawk: We have iafs. jdaniel: I submitted a request Friday, but then discovered 20 copies There are 40 more on way. We need 20 izephyr and 80 ilatex. Move to allocate up to $100 for izephyr and ilatex. [seconded] [white balloted, jdaniel will deal] R/O Report: '() IAP Report: '() CokeComm Report: pipa: We have coke and other varieties. I recently got a suggestion. If you have a suggestion send mail to cokecomm@mit.edu. Other: klmitch: I'm working on perl zephyr. mycroft: I have netbsd 1.3 CD's. pipa: N42 basement carpet is being replaced. Other Other: elliot: The terminator. jered growls. [ aww. ] tb: Gay PRIDE recheduled for June 11th. Maybe it won't rain. pipa: Biking to walden was fun, scraping my left side wasn't. nygren: Old alum Donald Becker is on a beowulf project that violates export control on supercomputers. jered: It's not clear that it violates them, it's just that the NASA bureaucrats who got burned by shipping the missle parts to China are now yanking everything that could look suspicious. mycroft: I curious to what happened to the stuff on the bulletin boards. jdaniel: It appears to have been stuck in random people's drawer. tivol: I organized the business cards. jhawk: Everybody look at Chad, ultimate after. xela: john kcr, mycroft, danw all went to New Orleans for USENIX. sly: us air stranded me. kcr: us air stranded me too. The meeting was adjourned at 20:09:50. Minutes taken and submitted by sepherke.