Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 7.14.03


The meeting was called to order at 7:33 by golem.

In attendance were
	Voting members: rax golem jenselby merolish | keithw kenta
	Associate members: jhawk marc zacheiss  deberg  seph cfox
	zacheiss dbj ocschwar
	Prospectives: mwp | rradu
	Guests:

Treasurer's Report:

Chairman's Report:

Office Report:

	cfox: Move to allocate $80 for a copy of "Mastering Matlab 6"
	<zacheiss seconds>
	<white ballot>
	[cfox: $80 for Mastering Matlab 6]

	golem: I was thinking of getting a poster to replace the other
		poster. The Bob the Angry  Flower apostrophe poster. Move to
		allocate $20.
	<cfox seconds>
	marc: What the fuck are you talking about?
	jhawk: There is enough wall space for more than one poster.
	rax: We could discuss it offline.
	jhawk: I believe it is relevant.
	golem: angryflower.com
	<5-3-4, motion passes>
	[golem: $20 for poster]

	ocschwar: The APO folks found an old Frame handbook from
		O'Reilly while cleaning. People should look at it and determine
		whether or not it deserves shelf space.

Office Cleaning Report:

	rax: The fact that this cup is still here, while much
		appreciated, is kind of sad.

MIT Computing Report:

	cfox: The network group sucks.

	zacheiss: I should be doing the AFS quota increase this
		weekend. Default user quota will be going to 500 MB.

	kenta: Is there some Athena upgrade?
	zacheiss: 9.2 goes Solaris tonight and Linux tomorrow. Before
		term a patch with Mozilla 1.4 and Evolution 1.4 will come out.

	jhawk: The network group had scheduled outages of routers this
		week during peak usage times, and informed the routers of the
		these plans so that they could break moments before the planned
		upgrades. Go network group.

	marc: Fiscal Year 04 rates for everything went up. It will cost
		an extra couple bucks per phone, $4 per IP address, standard
		subnet fee is going up by 4-7000 dollars. Jack installs now
		cost $375 which is an increase of $175.
	golem: This is actually relevant since you should be aware that
		our budget is being decreased next year.
	jhawk: That is the same budget.
	golem: Apparently our decrease is a few percent. It is unknown
		how much.
	seph: Tibbetts mentioned a potential budget decrease. I assume
		that the funny money will do the right thing.
	golem: That is the question. The way that it works is not that
		they give us as much as it costs to run a network and then
		some. It is not going to increase to take into account this
		cost increase. This may be a more significant problem.
	marc: The treasurer should figure this out. Does the office
		budget include the machine room subnet? That is a monster
		increase.
	golem: We may be able to negotiate.
	zacheiss: Some of this is coming from everyone being upgraded
		from 10 shared to 100.
	marc: If the machine room subnet comes from the office budget
		we will be destroyed.
	golem: The treasurer is currently in Tahiti. We will have to
		wait for him. If it is not Boston it is Tahiti.

Computer Services:

	jhawk: Charon lost its hard drive, and it suspended limekiller
		(the IPv6 server) whose console port is connected to charon.
		arolfe restored from backup. No interesting data was lost.
	golem: Modularity wins again.
	zacheiss: Jonathon hopes to upgrade to the new sun sometime
		this month.
	golem: We could have a wishful thinking report.

SIPB Backup Report:

	zacheiss: They keep doing themselves and UFS is running off of
		the SDLT tape drive and all of the partitions fit on one tape
		again.
	jhawk: Move to merge the backup report with computer services.
	<zacheiss seconds>
	<white ballot>
	rax: I will change the minutes format.

Publications Report:

	jenselby: iMatlab should arrive tomorrow or the next day.

Orientation Report:

	rax: If you have thoughts about tours or midway see me. I will
		be sending mail soon.
	jenselby: We also need a HowToGAMIT blurb.
	golem: I was going to do that. We need to figure out exactly
		what we want to say. It is very whither and all that. Comments
		on that should go to me or sipb-ec.

IAP Report:

CokeComm Report:

Other:

	marc: One of my hard drives at home followed Charon,  but it
		was half of a mirror.
	golem: Modularity wins again.

	rax: I am going to be away Jul 28-Aug11. Someone else should
		take minutes.  I will be in "Tahiti."

Other Other:

	dbj: Boston Dynamics is looking for someone with a combination
		of real time embedded system and electronic
		design experience to work on a cool robotics project over 
		the next year. If you know anyone with skills in this
		area, talk to me.

	ocschwar: My thesis works. That makes me enormously happy.

	deberg: I am probably running for City Council.

	seph: Matt is running against Aimee Smith.

	deberg: There are no districts.

Sucks:

	seph: Network!

The meeting was adjourned at 7:50.


	Minutes taken and submitted by rax.