Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 03/27/95


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

	In attendance were 
		Voting members: shabby nocturne jhawk ghudson rshah yoav
			beaners rjbarbal | tlyu marthag
		Associate members: mhpower jtkohl yandros | mcmullan srz
		Non-voting members: 
		Prospectives: sipb3(matt bear) cordelia jeffk@ai mib@gnu.ai
			sipb7(rhonda peck) karat
		Guests: 

	Secretary's Gratuitous Pre-Meeting Comment:

		I think I'll Mime this.

	Treasurer's Report:

		she's not here.  (she showed up)

		jhawk: The Treasurer went home [from the med center]
		last week on Wednesday, I think, last week.

		yoav: I'd like to move for the new Stroustroup C++
		book. Move to allocate $70 for the new C++ book.
		White-balloted.  yoav will deal.

	Chairman's Report:

		yoav: shabby and I worked on the guest accounts thing,
		there are now two files; guest-accounts now only
		contains names that should be checked up on
		occasionally, such as sponsored accounts.  Now there's
		member-guest-accounts, which are for people sponsored
		by SIPB, who are members, including charon accounts.
		Double-check it, there are people there from, like,
		1923.

		shabby nominates cordelia for membership.  he accepts,
		vote is unanimous.  There will be elections next week
		for Andy and Ping.

		rjbarbal: I need to talk to Greg about Bylaws stuff.
		There'll be a poll-type thing that everyone should
		respond to sometime this week.  

	Office Report:

		mib: The office is a pit.  Shut up, mib.

		rjbarbal: If you spill something in the fridge, clean
		it up.

		yoav: We should become UTP'ed RSN.  ghudson: We need
		to get out of the office Friday during the day for
		this to take place; we should clean up Thursday night.

	MIT Computing Report:

		rshah: The W20 cluster will also be rewired for UTP
		and parts may be off-limits for a while.

	Computer Services:

		yandros: The SIPB locker reorg happened, I didn't do
		it on the active SIPB locker, it's currently in
		/afs/sipb/project/sipb-new.  Look at it and send
		comments to me.

		ghudson: I announced installation of octave, a Matlab
		clone, on all the platforms you care about.  It does
		most of what Matlab does.

		ghudson: I plan to take down old-rosebud, the RS/6k,
		since we planned to keep it up 'til Spring Break, and
		it's Spring Break.  yoav: send mail to cfyi explaining
		the possibility of delays and stuff.  jhawk: Have you
		considered that it might take longer to get the
		CellServDB change to go through since probe isn't here?

		mhpower: It's getting to be time to remove references
		to USA Today from the news server.  If you know anyone
		who's relying on USA Today, they should let us know
		right away.

		mhpower: There's occasionally been a problem on the
		news server with old clients keeping the history file
		open.  Two comments on this.  1) I don't think this
		would happen under NT.  2) We have a script that will
		randomly kill processes as news, and it runs in the
		early morning, there's a slight risk that people might
		lose connections in the early morning.

	SIPB Backup Report:

		Someone should do an AFS backup this week, since no
		one seems to have done it last week.

		cordelia: We got a new cleaning tape.  ghudson: did
		you do that?  cordelia: yes

		All non-AFS machines were backed up.

	Publications Report:

		ghudson: did we get iLaTeX yet?  yandros: bert was
		supposed to do final editing, and my guess is it
		didn't get done.

		sipb7: Anything ever happen with iFrameMaker?  jhawk:
		I made this list of things to do, and it's in
		/afs/sipb/user/jhawk/iFrame.todo

		cordelia: alpha version of iAthena will be out by the
		end of the week.

	R/O Report:

		'()

	IAP Report:

		'()

	CokeComm Report:

		rshah: We need coke.  yandros: Current jerk (George)
		is in Florida. 
	
		ghudson: People are doing a really bad job of keeping
		the fridge stocked.

	Other:

		mhpower: People working on advertising for the MIT
		Press seem to be following C&S's advice...

		shabby: I installed OS/2 Warp Connect Beta

		rjbarbal: Coffeehouse is closed 'til Sunday.

		mhpower: jik readded himself to rtfm-maintainers and
		owner-mail-server.  ghudson: This is because no one
		else seems to be doing Usenet group vote collection.

		rshah: Monty leaves tomorrow for Japan.

	Other Other:

		cordelia: Discount Records in Harvard Square has an
		excellent selection of Boingo.

		rjbarbal: 9859 minutes.  

		yandros: It's probably too cold to play Ultimate after
		the meeting.  If anyone wants to play Ultimate at 6am
		tomorrow, talk to me.  beaners: Where at 6am?

		jhawk: yoav is doing weird things with a pair of
		scissors, and should be stopped.

	The meeting was adjourned at 19:46:10.


	Minutes taken and submitted by shabby.