Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of October 13, 1980.

	The meeting was called to order at 18:30 by William M. York.
		
	In attendance were  JLF, GMP, RLL, WMY, DCP, NML, BARMAR, WER,
		MG, RDM, Jay, BIM, JPT, JIS, and Naha.
			
	Late were: c|, BEE, DPC, TZS, RMF, RK, and Alan.

	The minutes of the meeting of October 6, 1980 were read and
		accepted as corrected.

	Treasurer's Report:

		Spending for the month of October is $5572.84.  The
		month of October is 2 and 1/2 weeks old.  Wes Burner
		has told us that we have a $100K budget.

	Chairman's Report:

		WMY talked to Wes about the local ACM programming
		contest.  Last year we funded the local contest, but
		we are looking into getting Wes to fund it.  We are
		trying to help them win with terminals also.

		The chairman also talked to a former CISLian that is
		now working at PRIME about PRIME computers.

		c| came in during the chairman's report.

	Office Report:

		DCP is concerned about people not coming to the office
		during their signed up office hours and that there are
		some slots that are not signed up for.

		People should also be doing SIPBADMIN work sometime
		around 5:00 PM so that when users call later in the
		evening we can tell them their Userids.

		Output from the Spinwriter queues that has a
		destination of CISL or IPS should be taken to the
		operators in Dispatch.

		There was discussion about the current price of the
		ECS Manuals which is now $.75.  There was a motion to
		reduce the price to $.25.  It passed.

		Alan, DPC,and BEE walked in during office report.

		The office has ACM membership forms.

	Computer Services:

		We were misinformed about 6.034 students being able to
		get computer time to practice Lisp on the EECS computer.

		The new_user tool now gives 30 records of quota by
		default.

		Naha talked to SCEP and they gave us the impression
		that they need the 900 records of storage they have,
		until finals week.  BIM will contact them and work out
		the best arrangement.

	Telecommunications Report:

		WER will be sending terminal requests to all the
		Living Groups by the end of the month.

		Someone from Baker called us and asked to remove the
		DecWriter from Baker House.  We will wait while DCP
		talks to the Baker house terminal chairman.

		There was talk about the Spinwriter queues and about
		what to do when someone queues many copies of one
		file.  Suggestions were made to talk to Jean Bonney
		about higher rates for the queues and what to do about
		people who clog the queues.

		CAH sent a letter to Jean Bonney that detailed the
		costs of the Spinwriter.  She will be buying it for
		the IPC.

		BARMAR, Jay, WER, and several other people left for
		the Asimov lecture during the Telecommunications
		report.

	Publications Report:

		We need NUMS.

		BARMAR suggested that we include documentation on the
		Lister program in the NUMS.

		The ECS manual is being worked over.

	IAP Report:

		Alan has an idea for the programming contest.

		WMY says that the Multics course is gaining support in
		terms of teachers.

		WMY also would like to know if we are going to
		administer IPC's IAP projects.

		BSG might not be teaching all of the Lisp Course.
		Alan, DLW, and others are planning on giving some of
		the lectures.

	Other:

		HGA found the old AML requests that CAH had submitted
		last spring, and gave them to RK.  Ree Dawson might
		want us to provide more information than we really
		consider necessary.  RK will submit them again, and we
		will wait for the next reply from her.

		Many people at HLSUA are interested in getting
		together a global AML.  Due to Honeywell Brain Damage,
		employees cannot do this, and many people would like
		to see the SIPB coordinate the effort.  It is possible
		that Roger Roach could pay for the disk space.  The
		question is, can the SIPB do this?  It was moved that
		we become the administrators of the Honeywell Global
		AML.  The motion passed.  GMP will tell JSL who is at
		HLSUA.

		RMF popped in and out of the office during other.

		The issue of active members was brought up.  BIM
		suggested that members should take some form of test
		to see if they know how to take applications and use
		the results of the test as a basis for deciding
		whether that person could take applications.  We
		decided that the chairman will still be deciding who
		is active and inactive.  People at the meeting were
		also requested to think about elected members that are
		not furthering the aims of the SIPB.

		TZS walked in during other.

		BIM wants to change the way the minor devices are
		handled with the spinwriter queues.  We will wait
		until CAH shows up at a meeting to discuss how to deal
		with this problem.

		BIM says he will write up Lister documentation to be
		included in the NETS.

	Applications:

		Brewster Kahle wants $UNKNOWN to develop a program to do
		fraternity steward work.  Deferred for more information.

		Frantiska Frolik, a secretary from building 35, wants
		some computer time to improve her secretarial skills
		by learning text processing.  She was given $75.

		Mike Golding was given $100 by EC vote.

		Robert Proctor paid an additional $20 towards his
		Coop account.

		Total appropriations: $2430 without Coop
		  Autoed: 
		    Student: $1955
		    370:     $ 200
		  To Meeting:, all Student.

		Coop: $20

	Other Other:

		Several people went to the Loft Party this past
		Saturday.

		Some people from the Multics Educational Marketing
		Division are interested in trading ideas and
		documentation with us.  WMY will be talking with them.

		A medium sized Multics was announced at the beginning
		of the HLSUA.

	The meeting was adjourned at 20:45.
 
		     Minutes taken and submitted by Richard L. Lawhorn Jr.
 
 

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