Minutes of the SIPB Meeting
		of 12.19.83

	The meeting was called to order at 7:38 by rdz.
						
In attendance were 					
	Voting members:wcs,amy,rdz,whbh,lee,dfm,amy,djb
	Non-voting members:rk
	Prospectives:Julius
		
		->MTG APPLICATIONS 

Brown Jr., Gary E: Had 200, wants 75 for papers. Given.
Haque, Reaz: Had 100. Wants 50 for a newsletter. (originally autoed, questioned
	by rk. ) Someone should call him. Deferred.



		TREASURER'S REPORT

No treasurer, no treasurer' report.
Flaming ensues...

spending: (from rdz)
	spb/spba:	$12675/$30000
	total: $86K
	user: 74K/120K

This means we will spend at least 150K in the entire year. 

		CHAIRMAN'S REPORT

Julius has been nominated for membership. We have 8 voting members here.
He wants to become a member because he wants to get exposed to computers.

Most of this comes under Athena report.


		OFFICE REPORT

We are running out of pink pads. wcs will get some more. 
The h19 came back again. 



		COMPUTER SERVICES

The TOOL. We want some way of taking applications on line. 
rk says before we do this, we should fix up add_student. Flaming ensues.
Ramin flames about end of term appications. People who are at auto limit at
end of term, should have money added, retroactively taken to ec. This is
official policy (says rdz..).


		TELECOMMUNICATIONS REPORT

Julius is appointed telecommunications chairman.
Alan paid the terminal fees for Random.
PKS has an la36 of ours and owes us $200. They claim they haven't used it
	since spring of '81.
Student center wiring: we will work on this in the beginning of January.
The service contract was renewed with DEC, rather than going to dataterm. 


		PUBLICATIONS REPORT

We need more form b's. We are almost out. 



		ATHENA REPORT

Athena is interested in student consultants to be in the terminal room and
answer question. They are willing to pay, in addition to giving out accounts.
They may also be interested in hiring students to work on the athena staff. 
There will be 3 levels of consulting:
The SIPB will hopefully be able to give out "hacker" accounts for informal
consulting.
Paid consultants will be paid >= $6.50 /hour. 
Some students may become members of the Athena staff. lee and whbh are
marginally interested. 

Ramin talked to Steve Lerman. There is a concensus in high places that the
SIPB should come up with a proposal. It's unclear what they want us to do, but
it's in their interest to cultivate hackers.
We may give accounts for people to to mini-projects, Hopefully we will not
become the student text processing board. 

		IAP REPORT

Bernie Greenberg will teach the IAP lisp course. We are still going to try to
get people to help him, however.
RF explained about athena lossage over IAP. Students will not be able to take
labs from athena. ccc cannot help us with hardware. We may try to give a unix
lab on our own.

		OTHER
nil of interest.
		OTHER OTHER

There was a winning diner at next house for Rick. People was amusing, it was
lots of fun. 

	The meeting was adjourned at 8:40:16


	     Minutes taken and submitted by wcs.