Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2007-03-19


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

In attendance were 
	Voting members: andersk aseering golem jhawk k_lai nelhage
		tabbott tilia wdaher
	Associate members: asedeno dkk mitchb ocschwar
	Prospectives: jwalden mathmike
	Guests: 

Officer Reports:
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MIT Computing Report:
	jhawk: I got some three-year-old messages and they were not
		the fault of the mail system.
	tabbott: So apparently the mail system doesn’t suck this time?

SIPB Projects Report:
	mathmike: In an attempt to improve the uptime of SIPB’s most
		critical service, I installed a stapler on the wall
		outside the door with some tape.
	nelhage: It’s been up for approximately 24 hours.

	mathmike: course.mit.edu now allows you to save a link as the
		correct one, and then will go to that link fast.
		There are plans in the future to have a
		certificate-based system that allows people to add
		arbitrary links rather than ones that are found by the
		system.

	nelhage: We had a hackathon this weekend.  Projects were
		hacked on.  andersk did some magic that made
		Linerva-etch slightly closer to done.
	tabbott: He had this probabilistic build system that would
		build packages ¾ of the time, and eat disk space ¼ of
		the time.
	andersk: I fixed that bug.

	mathmike: I move to allocate $10 additional for the hackathon
		yesterday since we went over.
	<white ballot, motion passes>

	wdaher: These german guys I was trying to buy that RFID reader
		from just stopped responding, but I’m looking at other
		ways to get one.

	dkk: Is that project “Barn FS” or “Bar NFS”?
	andersk: Both!
	mitchb: So what is that?
	nelhage: No comment.

Office Report:
	wdaher: I found hunt on binkley.
	nelhage: hunt has also been installed on Linerva at
		/usr/games/hunt.  And jhawk is scarily good at hunt.

	tabbott: There’s a bunch of junk on the table.

	tabbott: It would be good if we had more markers that we could
		put along the sill of the whiteboard.

	tabbott: There’s some food leftover from the hackathon.

	asedeno: I found the other DVI-to-2-VGA splitter thing, so we
		now have two dual-head office heads.

	nelhage: I think the office should have a copy of CLRS.  We
		currently have a water-damaged copy of CLR.  Move to
		allocate $100 for CLRS.
	<white-ballot, motion passes>

	wdaher: I talked to Leiserson about CLRS.  He’s not interested
		in CLRSD.
	nelhage: I’m disappointed that CLRS does not include
		Boyer-Moore searching.

	tabbott: I believe jbarnold declared himself the office czar,
		and there have been some drawer reallocations.  If you
		need a drawer, talk to jbarnold.

	tabbott: I see “extension cords” written on the board?  Do we
		have extension cords?

	aseering: At the hackathon, some number of people decided that
		the proper way to discipline geofft was to thwhack him
		with the wrist rest.  I move to reinstate the
		no-violence in the office policy.
	tabbott: As the person who will have to sign our anti-hazing
		policy in the Fall, I should point out that we need to
		have equal-opportunity thwacking.
	<3-3-7, motion fails>

	nelhage: The whiteboard got mounted.
	tabbott: It’s even mounted in read-write mode!  I think we
		should commend k_land.

Education Report:
	nelhage: We scheduled a CPW event during the hackathon.  We
		declared it the “SIPB Inode and fsck Block Party”.
		Featuring such exciting events as “Name That
		Vulnerability!” and usability faceoff between OLPC and
		binkley.
	tabbott: Does binkley still turn on, by the way?

	nelhage: If anyone wants to play hunt on linerva, Team 1 has
		been officially designated the anti-jhawk team.
	nelhage: We looked at the HCS website after suggestions that
		we engage in some sort of activity with them, and they
		challenge us to Doom II.  I think however that we
		should challenge them to a hunt tournament.

Other:
	nelhage: We still haven’t used our last copy of “Using
		Discuss”.

	tabbott: I think I’m going to be missing the meeting next week
		as well due to visiting grad schools.

Other Other:
	dkk: I’ve been a member for close to 20 years now, and this is
		the first time I’ve ever attended a meeting by
		accident.

Discussion Report:
	(no minutes)

The meeting was adjourned at 19:48.


	Minutes taken and submitted by andersk.