Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 09/1/97


The meeting was called to order at 19:30:00 by kretch.

In attendance were 
	Voting members: amu amsmith kretch svalente yonah | nygren danw
		annmarie
	Associate members: srz mhpower tlyu kcr xiphmont rjbarbal jhawk 
		jonathon
	Non-voting members: 
	Prospectives: "Martyn Peck" bev goodell jfmurphy jewell lockhart
	Guests: lima tcs

Treasurer's Report:
	nil

Chairman's Report:
	yonah: Cool documentation project idea.  Talk to me.
	kretch: Can you give us a hint?
	yonah: Yes.

Office Report:
	amsmith: The SIPB office has a problem with cockroaches and
		ants. Perhaps we should get the office fumigated.
	nygren: If it's one ant or cockroach, maybe it was an isolated
		incident, we should wait and see if there are more.

Office cleaning report:
	jhawk:  Someone spilled coke in the recycling bin.
	rjbarbal:  Scheduled office cleaning did not happen last friday.
		Perhaps we should change the time.
		Also the collection tray under the fridge needs cleaning.
	kretch: I wasn't around, am disappointed that cleaning didn't
		happen. Will send mail about fridge tray.
	jhawk: Was it cleaned two weeks ago?
	rjbarbal:  No.  Not since the fridge was moved in here.

MIT Computing Report:
	danw: There's a test dialup.  It's called test.dialup.  It's
		average usage is 2 people, sometimes getting as large as
		10, in busy periods.  You should use it so we can test
		things and you'll have a nice fast machine.
	yonah: Should mention it on cfyi.
	kcr: And tell Random.
	kretch:  Rumor has it that it has some security fixes too.

Computer Services:
	yonah: One step closer to the www migration.
	kretch: WebSIS is down the day before reg day.  Go figure.
	amu: RH-athena 4.2 hasn't happend yet; currently in beta.

SIPB Backup Report:
	kretch: AFS is happening as we speak.
	jhawk: Planning to update btc to 8.1.
	amu: Some software built against 8.1 won't run on 8.0, btc is the
		last 8.0 machine in the office.
	jhawk: Should we keep an 8.0 around?
	srz: Until IS desupports it.
	jhawk: What does that mean?
	srz: Until IS no longer has public machines running it.
	amsmith: lots of private workstations still run 8.0
	danw: they deserve to lose
	amsmith: They may be just trying to fix scripts so that the update
		won't mess them up.
	jhawk: People having broken scripts is not a sufficient reason to
		keep a non-current OS around. We can fix problems w/o
		replicating them exactly.
Publications Report:
	kretch: Dealing w/ iLatex.
	yonah: We're also out of Linux-Athena.
	amu: We should probably wait until the new release.
	kretch: print out a few of something.

R/O Report:
	jewell: Tours are this thursday, will need tour leaders
		Needs someone to deal with food
		Postering tonight, means finding a 24 hour copy store
		(people volunteered)
		Also, more stops would be nice.
	jweiss: Move to allocate $100 for tour food.
	jewell: and photocopies?
	jweiss: Accepted.
	White ballot.
	

IAP Report:
	nil

CokeComm Report:
	jhawk: We have more coke.
	srz: Who's cokecomm?
	amsmith: Currently arranging transfer to Heather Drake.

Other:
	jhawk: This morning the repeater on 18.181.0.30
		(W20-575A-SIPB-REP-STUB) stopped pinging.
		This is somewhat disturbing.
	jweiss: Occasionally they stop pinging and management fails, but
		the repeater continues to forward frames just fine.
	jhawk: Yes, but only intermittantly; I'll drop a note to network
		if it doesn't clear up.
	jhawk: Time on 18.181 seems awful off.   People maintaining
		services on that network should look at their time
		configuration.

Other Other:
	jweiss: Laverdes is back to normal hours.
	kretch: Coffee House is also on normal hours if it hasn't been
		mentioned previously.
	jhawk: I have $2 bills.  I may even have an infinite supply of
		them.

Everybody look at Jonathon Report:
	jweiss: You want to come to post meeting ultimate.  Some people
		from out of town will be there.


The meeting was adjourned at 19:49:17.


	Minutes taken and submitted by kcr.