PRESENT: Dave Tompkins, Dave Brent, David Kirkpatrick, Irmtraud Meyer, Sohrab Shah, Baharak Rastegari, Hosna Jabbari, Chris Thachuk, Sanja Rogic, Andrew Carbonetto, Piam Kiarostami, Lin Xu, Chris Fawcett, Massih Korvash, Ashiqur KhudaBukhsh, Mirela Andronescu, Vian Chan, Anne Condon

DISK MOVE (Dave Brent):

• everything is done but not wiped out yet - will give a week's notice before doing this

SPACE (Dave Brent):

• same amount of space as before plus some raid space
• beta raid space available everywhere
• there have been a number of requests for purchase but need to know amount of space required
• create a wikki page and a people directory

PRINTER/SCANNER:

• getting a new printer has been suggested and Dave Brent will check out the cost
• let tech staff know if printer is being moved
• paper is jamming in the Canon copier - Evelyn will call for service

OLD HW:

• remove all old hardware - Dave Brent will take care of it

READING GROUP:

• schedule meeting for the first Tuesday of the month
• use Bioinformatics reading time
• use LCI format: meeting in the first half and talk in the second half

WEBPAGE (Piam):

• new page done and URL will be emailed to beta-lab
• undergrad students want to volunteer for project work

SEATING POLICY (Dave Tompkins):

• seating is done by seniority (i.e. number of years at UBC)
• Chris Fawcett, Frank Hutter, Ashiqur KhudaBukhsh and Lin Xu are moving up from the LCI Lab
• Dave will assign lab space