Minutes of the SIPB Meeting of 02 August 1982 in 39-200 The meeting was called to order at 19:31 EDT by Wendy E. Rowe In attendance were c/, CBF, naha, 54, HGA, WMY, GMP, DCP, RK, CAH, WER, RLL. Late were: barmar, LRH, JIS, JSL, Jay [LRH entered during the reading of the minutes.] The minutes of the meeting of 26 July 1982 were read and accepted as corrected. Treasurer's Report: {19:36- Our accounts on the 370 were turned on. Billing will be to last year's account numbers. We have JCF disk storage bills. We spent money last month. No budget yet. 19:37} 21:47- We spent about $3 840.10 in July. 21:47- Jay ordered the part for the chair. Chairman's Report: {19:37- Budget: $109 000 for IPS computers, $1 000 for JCF, rest is vague. It is currently unwritten.} Office Report: {19:38- The Office Game was played last Thursday night. The loft was cleaned by JIS. Steve laundered the bedclothes and some of the stuff on the coat racks. Member's cruft has been collected into boxes and should be removed (before WMY does it for you!). Taking output out of the SpinWronger is difficult. The winning chair still lacks a part. Fiche should be put in the fiche box above the fiche reader. Last year's applications should be filed. Should we keep the weekly accounting totals from last year? Since we have daily data, we have decided to let the treasurer decide. There was a package to be mailed to a Rosenbloom at GMC from SIPB. What was in it? 19:45} 20:47- Maybe we should volunteer Jay to get a drawer for the desk that is missing one. CBF thinks we should get drawers to put under the desks. Computer Services: {19:45- MIT signed their contract with Honeywell for 2 DPS-8's and 2 IOM's scheduled to arrive in April or March 1983. The switch will be made the first week of May, during thesis crunch. 19:47} Telecommunications Report: {19:47- The AJ's cannot be sold and must be given to MIT for property exchange. We won't get any money for them no matter what happens. The property office will handle all transfers. The only things that we can sell and get money for must not have property stickers. CBF thinks that we should talk to Corby or Wes for permission to sell them off so that the funds go back to us. WER will probably talk to Wes. 19:52- Student Center concentrator. CBF believes that we cannot rely on the microwave link and that we should buy backup high-speed modems for it. The gift equipment from DEC has not arrived yet. Sombody should talk to the Student Center Librarian about getting space and possibly furniture for the -11 and the terminals. WER will do it. The office Bell 113 doesn't work. Somebody should call dataset repair. The Graduate Student Council borrowed the office H-19 and modem and will return it this Thursday. RLL thinks that we should keep the AJ's for a little while rather than give them to the Property Office. We got more property stickers from Denny: one for the no-longer-missing AJ at Fenway House and 5 for the UDS 212's. Each sticker is now encased in its own envelope with instructions on what to do with them. 20:03} Publications Report: {20:03- CBF tried to update the ECS manual, but the top-level file (manual.runoff) is missing. He'll look in the backup dumps for it. There is an EMACS handout and some changes for the NUMS on the board. Perhaps the EMACS handout should be included in the NUMS. Changes to the text of teach_emacs are also on the board. 20:08} Annual-Report Report: {20:08- WER got a lot of comments on the annual report. A new copy is on the board. CBF and barmar are deciding how to format the statistics. CBF thinks that the report fails to emphasize the importance of text processing in our budget. 68% of all dollar allocations were for text processing accounts. [JIS entered]. The Institute needs a rationale for supporting text processing. We should suggest that perhaps students get their first and only experience with computers through us. CBF thinks that we should state that we spent most of our money on text processing. Barmar says that applications should be entered in forward chronological order for purposes of statistics. We currently can't tell which of a person's multiple applications came last. 20:28} R/O Report: 20:28- AI will be on the computer tour. ArcMac is still questionable. GMP thinks that we should show W91. The Math Department will be on the tour if they are interested in attracting hackers. 20:34- The phones in DuPont...we have to know when they'll be installed. The phones are supposed to be delivered here. 20:36- WMY thinks that we should try to find useful SIPB members from the freshlings. We should also be training Multics consultants. [JSL entered]. Somebody should remind the secretary to send out reminders. IAP Report: 20:49- We should try to get 10-250 for the Lisp course. WER will talk to Jay about how to get it. Barry will order it. Other: {20:52- Should we make a decision on a $n limit on text processing? CBF motions that we should put a limit of $200 on a single user of text processing and publicize it. WMY and barmar are trying to squeeze information this out of Linus and the database. Motion fails. [Jay entered]} 21:25- More discussion of the limit followed. WMY thinks the limit should not appear on the policy statement. CBF says it should so users can plan ahead. 20:59- Prof. Whitaker needs to know how much money he should ask for from the Seminar Office. It should NOT be a Co-op account. 10-20 students, about 20 terminal hours per week for the whole term. We should probably tell him about $6-$8 per hour. We need more information. CBF will talk to him. 21:05- SIGGRAPH was last week. Tavares, Kazar Kleban were around. 21:06- WER read a letter to the user who helped us revise the NETS. 21:10- GMP says that we're going to need more compose consultants. The Center will supports the use of compose 9.12i. Refer to AP-43. Use compose for fonts, tables, and one more thing. 21:16- Building 11 is now on hold. Somebody else wants it. Applications: 21:19- Reading of auto'd applications. 21:31- ===> Meeting Leung, Albert. Previously given $50 for learning about VM and FORTRAN. Somebody told him he would need more money. Tell him to come back when he does need more money. Mansell, John. Previously had $100. Needs money to text edit papers for 5 12-unit literature courses for the fall. Deferred to the discretion of the office if he needs to do the work now. Poe, James F. $25. Had $95. Needs money for more writing of a 30 - 40 page paper. Given. Tarem, Zvi. $50 Given after he talks to somebody about not using his account during Shift I. E.C. vote ========= TCA, $150 for data entry for the student activity interest forms. Multip needed. Given. Total appropriations: $745.00 without Coop Autoed: Student: $470.00 370: $50.00 To Meeting: $75.00, EC: $150.00, all Student. Coop: $240.00 Other Other: 21:47- Ed Kleban is here. 21:51- Tavares was here. The meeting was adjourned at 21:51 EDT. Minutes taken and submitted by Richard Lai.