Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 12/23/2002


The meeting was called to order at 7:30 by aatharuv.

In attendance were
        Voting members: alex_c
        Associate members: xela, jhawk, dbj, cfox, jweiss, rjbarbal, aatharuv
        Prospectives:
        Guests:

Treasurer's Report:  

Chairman's Report:

Office Report:

	aatharuv: (For jweiss) Move to allocate $600 to repair the UFS
	backup tape drive 
	<white ballot>
	[jweiss allocation: $600 for UFS tape drive repair.]


	alex_c: I'm sick of the office... move to allocate $5000 so that I
			can investigate Australian IT practices.

	jhawk: Black ballot!

	dbj: How does this further the goals of SIPB?

	alex_c: You get to hear about Australian IT practices.

	dbj: I think we should just provide you with internet service.

	alex_c: That's cheap.

Office Cleaning Report:

MIT Computing Report:

	jweiss: The W92 UPS misplaced its "U" on Friday.
	
	jhawk: Noone was bothering to monitor it.

Computer Services:

SIPB Backup Report:

	jweiss: UFS backups have had issues because the tapedrive is broken.

Publications Report:

	dbj: No copies of inessential Usenet, inessential bitmaps or
		 inessential afs.

	aatharuv: move to allocate up to $100 for copies of iAFS and iLaTeX
	<white-ballot>
	[aatharuv allocation: $100 for copies of iAFS and iLaTeX]

Orientation Report:

IAP Report:

CokeComm Report:

Other:
  
Other Other:

	aatharuv: I'm moving out of the Boston area very shortly to do grad
			  school, Villa Nova.  Also, today's my birthday, i'm 23.

Sucks:

	jhawk: Christmas! 

	Ghosts of Christmas tenses: jscrooge! scroogehawk!

	cfox: UPS's.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:38.