Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 05/17/2004


The meeting was called to order at 19:30:35 by jtu.

In attendance were 
	Voting members: ike jtu jbarnold kenta kchen
	Associate members: jhawk hartmans ocschwar alex_c belmonte 
	Prospectives: aerynne | zoz 
	Guests: 

Treasurer's Report:

	jtu: He's feeding a bunch of randomites

Chairman's Report:

	jhawk: Recent short network outages announced only on 3down an
		hour ahead of time at worst - does SIPB want to take a
		stand?
	jtu: I want to resolve SIPB issues with budget and stuff with
		IS&T first
	hartmans: SIPB might want to deal with the network group about
		other problems first, such as mail quality of service
	jtu: We don't care just yet. Maybe in two weeks?

Office Report:

	jtu: Trying to get new kinesis keyboards, but can't get a
		quote for the price from kinesis so far
	alex_c: the $100 allocation I got last week wasn't quite
		enough
	[alex_c: $200 for memory for cutter john]
	
Office Cleaning Report:

MIT Computing Report:

	jtu: A sign on the W20 cluster says that they're planning to
		remodel the back room of the cluster. Some people
		aren't happy about it.
	jhawk: I have a mail that talks about where they got the input
		to decide on this. jhawk zephyred the following text
		from that mail:
	---
	The changes that we're making are based largely on student
	feedback from IS Customer surveys over the past couple of
	years, student input from focus groups associated with the
	1-to-1 computing initiatives, and with student
	interviews conducted during the past year in clusters
	an in areas near clusters (e.g., the lounge area of
	W20 on the first floor) We also have been looking
	carefully at what other schools are doing in
        their student computing spaces to discern the trends that
	these reveal. I addition, we have reached out to both
	the GSA and the UGA to get representatives on a more on-going
	basis to several advisory groups (e.g.  Stellar Advisory
        Group, and forming in the fall of 04 a Learning Spaces
	Advisory Group).  The UGA indicated that they would
	prefer to identify someone in the fall rather than immediately
	to coincide with their usual pattern of assigning committee
	memberships at the start of the school yea We look
	forward to their input.
         ---

	
	hartmans: It sucks that they went to the UA and GSC instead of
		us

Computer Services:

Publications Report:

	ocschwar: Bleed on iLatex before I kill trees. I'm working
		with sasen on it.

Orientation Report:

	[jbarnold allocation: $150 for combined fees for ASA FYSM ]
	jbarnold: we also need to provide stuffers (people who go and
		sit and stuff envelopes) for this thing.

IAP Report:

CokeComm Report:

	aerynne: We're out of regular diet coke. I sent mail.
	jtu: jenselby is only cokecomm for one more run.

Other:

	jtu: I'm down to ruling one column [of twinkiedom]

Other Other:

	hartmans: svk is a cool version control system

The meeting was adjourned at 19:41:45.

	Minutes taken and submitted by ike.