Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1983 20:40 EST Message-ID: From: PSR%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA To: sipb-minutes@MIT-MC Subject: minutes of the meeting of 07.11.83 Treasurer's Report Multics MTD 5647.79 YTD 42600.03 Sipb MTD 533.50 YTD 9215.36 Also... Remember to ask how many terminals we have to give out ... See the letter attached to the froboz. --drm To meeting applications: Fencing. They want to tie 10 monitors together for a big display system for their fencing tournament. They wanted Multics time and Helfferich, Stephanie. word processing for couse 10 eval guide. given 100. Weiner, Bob. text editing. "I'd like to give it to him personally."--psr. given 50. Meya, Robert D. had 150, wants 50. all for papers. "Move to tell him not to take so many humanities." -cbf. given. Taiwo, A. had 150, wants 50. for differential equation solving. given. Sweetser, Douglas B. had 135, wants 65 for resume, cover letters, and papers. given. EC: Laks, Mitchell P. had 175 ec'd in 2 chunks (150 and 25) since last week to look at DNA sequences. Used macsyma and lost. Coop application: King, Tony S. wants 150 to do letters and resume. given. (taken?) Chairman's report: I have yet to do anything about the Calling Card (ie find out how easy it is to change it). I spoke to Jim Bruce about getting more money. PSR can fill you in on the details. The upshot is that if we give him a series of proposals for different increases in funding (and concomitant increases in services) he will pick one and push it. The increase should be substantial but not enormous. DFM and I (and perhaps CLM) will work on this in a few weeks. There may be official SIPB seats on the Athena Committees yet (stay tuned for more). Athena report: New report which will get the representatives report from committees and random gossip about the goddess. PC's in clusters (large computer rooms) where students can get to them. There will be some to go to professors after they apply to do course work on them. There will be some vax's this january. they will run raw 4.2 bsd because there is no time to spruce it up before then. So far, they are only alotting $250 per machine to license software (pc's). There is a guy from senior house that walked up to the 3rd floor of tech square wanting to remove a vax for senior house. he has succeeded in convincing people who ought to know better that there is really a vax at senior house and that cables should be laid. Office Report Telecommunications report. Dinarte is in the process of dealing with Living Groups over terminals. Pubs. psr took nets, nums, etc to get put into racks at pub room of ips. Iap nil Other Other Other friday is a holiday. Go to Guys and Dolls--Barry. Mrs. Pig came in third behind a management person who bought the election. She got aobut 269 dollars. Each contestant gets the world ugliest plant. Strange. Oops. We almost lost. We have someone that has been to 4 meeting and we almost forgot. It is Bill Habeck. Come and elect him next week. Minutes taken and submitted by PSR.