“If you order your mice from a pet store, you won’t have this problem.” —hartmans Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2007-03-26 The meeting was called to order at 19:30 by tabbott. In attendance were Voting members: andersk jbarnold jhawk kchen nelhage tabbott tilia Associate members: asedeno hartmans ocschwar Prospectives: austein mathmike | jwalden Guests: Officer Reports: tabbott: We had a special meeting at the EC last Wednesday to discuss the incident at the hackathon. There was a statement we sent out by email. “It is the conclusion of everyone involved that the horseplay incident at the hackathon was not harassment, intentional or otherwise. However, the participants in the horseplay apologize for any discomfort that was caused to other members of the community. We recognize that the Board and its individual members can do more to promote a welcoming office environment and that the Board should take steps towards this goal.” tabbott: Move to reinstate SIPB’s policy against violence in the office. “There shall be no violence in the SIPB office.” mathmike: The idea is that anyone in the room can say “I’m not okay with what’s going on.” hartmans: If that’s the intent, the policy should be reworded. jhawk: mathmike is referring to the case where the violence is borderline, and suggesting that we should have an informal policy that says that if you think there’s violence, you should point it out. Reasonable people can disagree about whether something is violence. <4-0-6, motion passes> jhawk: There was talk about restoring the policy about conflict resolution. tabbott: I forgot to send mail about that. Will deal with this next week. MIT Computing Report: kchen: -i dns is getting updates from DNS. SIPB Projects Report: nelhage: austein and I deployed an OpenID provider that uses MIT certificates. It’s currently at auth.mit.edu because jis stole openid.mit.edu. Use auth.mit.edu/username to log in to any OpenID consumer, such as LiveJournal or Doxory. tabbott: nelhage and I have been preparing an email to ISDA about our interest in a virtualization project. hartmans: I’m going to a meeting tomorrow about how ISDA can cooperate with SIPB. tabbott: People seem to be using the stapler service outside the door. mathmike: Spend money. tabbott: We have this list of things we came up with last meeting, including better chairs. People should continue thinking about what things we should buy, and maybe come up with actual proposals. Office Report: tabbott: The paper cutter is now located next to meadow above lola-granola. austein: It has a laser? jbarnold: Class 2 even. tabbott: There’s a pile of stuff underneath laptop land. tabbott: Are you going to get extension cords and highlighters? jhawk: Yes. jbarnold: Some user requested a mini-USB cable. tabbott: Getting a supply of various common cables would be useful. Is anyone interested in doing the purchasing? … I guess not. tabbott: nelhage, do you want try getting more mice? The last ones disappeared. nelhage: Move to allocate all of our remaining money for mice. tabbott: Friendly amendment to $100? nelhage: Move to allocate $100 for mice. hartmans: I’ll point out that if you order your mice from a pet store, you won’t have this problem. nelhage: The shelves for the machine room finally shipped. Education Report: kchen: What is this report? tabbott: This is the merging of the Orientation, IAP, and Education reports. jhawk: I produced a new edition of the Comprehensive LaTeX symbols list. This version only contains 1624 symbols, unlike the previous 2826, so this reflects the symbols that actually work on Athena LaTeX. nelhage: Hackathon this Wednesday! nelhage: CPW is soon. tabbott: SIPB Inode and fsck Block Party on April 13! jbarnold: We need to start looking for an Associate Vice Chairman in Charge of Independent Activities. hartmans: While I commend the choice of title, it needs to be enhanced to include a reference to vacuum. Will work on this after the meeting. Other: tabbott: I visited CMU over the weekend, and their equivalent of SIPB expressed interest in a DVD. nelhage: We should challenge them to a hunt tournament too. hartmans: Did you meet any of the SIPB prospectives at CMU? tabbott: I ran into some people I recognized, but was not aware that any of them were prospectives. ڛϥザණжആஇṎᑑ⺛א jbarnold: We should talk about the HCS thing. tabbott: wdaher had this great plan that we should challenge HCS to a game of hunt. jbarnold: On their website, they challenge anyone to Doom 2, so we may also have to play them in Doom 2 as a result of this. jhawk: As the senior SIPB hunt player, I suggest that SIPB needs to get better at hunt first. We’ll have training sessions every night at 9PM. jbarnold: No! Not for the minutes! asedeno: It’s okay, just put lots of UTF-8 around it. They’ll never see it. ڛϥザණжആஇṎᑑ⺛א jbarnold: People told me I should run QTopia on my mobile device, and I didn’t believe them. So I’ve been trying to run X and Iceweasel, which Debian describes as a “lightweight” browser. It ate 70% of my memory and took several minutes to start. jwalden: You should try Minimo. Other Other: jhawk: Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye. jwalden: Mozilla has a developer day at Hotel@MIT on Friday; I’ll be going. nelhage: Haskell’s kind of cool. tabbott: I discovered that at CMU, “Theory” means “Type Theory”. Discussion Report: The meeting was adjourned at 19:56. Minutes taken and submitted by andersk.