Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 2007-06-11


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

In attendance were 
	Voting members: andersk jbarnold jhawk kchen nelhage quentin
		tabbott
	Associate members: asedeno ocschwar
	Prospectives: price
	Guests: 

Officer Reports:
	tabbott: We have $800 left.  There’s also $475 from the Tor
		project, and $1200 being held by jhawk.

MIT Computing Report:
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SIPB Projects Report:
	quentin: geofft and I continued playing with asterisk.  We
		have a working security model based on suexec that
		allows people to run scripts out of their home
		directories.  danjared has implied that we’re going to
		get a SIPB VoIP account.
	tabbott: Is this going to be a scripts-style infrastructure
		project?
	quentin: Because of how the telephone system works, it
		shouldn’t be open to anyone that can press a button.
		Currently every VoIP account has a cost object
		associated with it.  I was thinking something we could
		offer to SIPB members and prospectives.
	jbarnold: How hard would it be to put sane limits on the calls
		people place, and then open it up so that anyone can
		get such accounts?
	quentin: geofft is working on a secure filter that we can use
		for that.  It wouldn't be impossible, but would be
		hard.
	jbarnold: Even if it does charge some nominal amount of money
		to SIPB, I don’t think we care.  We’re mainly
		concerned about placing $500 worth of calls to 900
		numbers or international numbers in a month.
	quentin: We should probably revisit that in the new fiscal
		year.
	quentin: We are planning on using a server I donated for
		asterisk.
	jbarnold: In the long term you may just want to use the
		virtualization service.
	quentin: We’re also planning on getting an FXO card, to
		interface with the plain telephone network, such as
		fax receiving.
	jbarnold: It doesn’t seem to me like the best hardware match.
	quentin: Can I ask jweiss about spare ops machines?
	jbarnold: Sure.

	jhawk: What’s the huge table outside the machine room?
	jbarnold: It’s going to be gone by the end of the day.

	nelhage: Move to allocate up to $1100 out of jhawk’s funds for
		more RAM for Linerva.  As outlined in the email I
		sent, we’ll buy 4 2GB sticks of RAM.
	kchen: Second.
	quentin: I think we should think more wisely about spending
		our money.
	tabbott: Do you have any other ideas?
	quentin: No.
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Office Report:
	jhawk: We have a nice new Fluke 179 with true RMS, the
		magnetic toolpack holder, and the TL225 kit of probes.
		[beep]

	tabbott: The office surfaces are a bit messier than they have
		been.

	nelhage: quiche appears to be having issues.  We’re not sure
		exactly why.

	nelhage: Also, we installed that card from quiche into
		mega-man.
	tabbott: What exactly is the goal for having this video setup
		on mega-man?
	jbarnold: It’s easier to play video and audio on mega-man than
		the Athena machines, because it’s Debian.  It would be
		nice if it had speakers attached to it.
	nelhage: I think it would be reasonable for the speaker bars
		to just live on mega-man.
	quentin: [demonstrates the HDTV card on mega-man]

Education Report:
	tabbott: IAP is sooner than you think, as is Orientation.
	nelhage: Have we settled on a title for our IAP coordinator
		yet?
	price: That sounds like a title.

Other:
	jhawk: There’s now a magnet under the staples outside the
		office, to keep them from falling on the floor.

Other Other:
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Discussion Report:

The meeting was adjourned at 19:53.


	Minutes taken and submitted by andersk.