Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 07/16/2001


The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by tibbetts.

In attendance were 
	Voting members: tibbetts sly arolfe alex_c jmorzins nim ingolia golem
	Associate members: tlyu jhawk yak cana kcr | marc
	Non-voting members: 
	Prospectives: mwp aatharuv
	Guests: 

Treasurer's Report:

Chairman's Report:

Office Report:
	sly: Our monitor stands arrived and have been deployed under xcb
		and snork.
	jhawk: We found a bunch of active specs in the monolith and are
		moving them out of there.
	yak: pickled's video card was replaced. 
	tibbetts:  The Y-mouse adaptor to let people use funny keyboards
		on the suns has been ordered.
	sly: The floppies next to bart-savagewood that were labelled as
		"suspected of being crap" by ghudson in 1998 should be
		disposed of.  Some are disks for ancient software.  Move
		to get rid of them.
	kcr: If they are high density 3.5", we should save them.
	sly: We have lots.
	kcr: But sometimes we run out.  We should use these rather than
		buying more.
	jhawk: People who use disks but don't label them suck.
	<nim seconds>
	<white ballot>
	
	sly: There were other floppies that might be people's mail
		backups.  Those are still in the box up there.  I move
		to get rid of them too after next week's meeting.
	<nim seconds>
	nim: We might want to erase them before throwing them out.
	<white ballot>
	
	golem: The mystery breadboard has 4 opamps on it.
	
	sly: We have mice again, the squeaky kind.  I move to spend $20
		for non-kill traps so we can let the mice go outside. 
	jhawk: I don't think the starve traps are more objectionable
		than kill traps.  But I think that letting the mice go
		makes this pointless.
	cana: We need to designate someone to take care of emptying the
		traps somewhere not near here.  I'd like to make this an
		ammendment.
	sly: I don't care, that's fine.  But I don't guarantee that I'll
		take them far away, certainly not to my house.
	yak: I like kill traps better.
	<yak objects to white ballot>
	<6-3-1, motion passes>
	[sly allocation: $20 for traps]	
	
Office Cleaning Report:
	sly: The fish went off.  We cleaned.  
	tibbetts: The bookcase is still a mess.

MIT Computing Report:
	sly: We discovered that the floppy drives on the black dells
		don't work.  This is under 8.4.  We don't know if it
		works under 9.0
	jhawk: Has it been reported?
	marc: I flamed but didn't actually report it.
	cana: It hasn't gone to testers.		

Computer Services:

SIPB Backup Report:

Publications Report:
	sly: I sent mail to sendpubs to get more cluster cards.

Orientation Report:

IAP Report:

CokeComm Report:
	cana: There's no Dr. Pepper.

Other:
	golem: Marc is closer than you think.
	jhawk: I'm unemployed.  I also have sequential $5 bills.

Other Other:

The meeting was adjourned at 19:41.


	Minutes taken and submitted by arolfe.