Minutes of the Fermilab/Dzero group meeting 
                        April, 27, 1998 
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    1) Changes to the masthead
       There were 56/61 responses to the survey, a response very much
       appreciated by the ib reps. As a result Seung Ahn, Dan Green, Nancy
       Grossman, Michael Tartaglia, Zhou Yongshen and John Hobbs were removed
       from the masthead, and Don Lincoln was added. There are two request for
       addition to the masthead by Mike Martens and Linda Stutte. 

    2) At the recent IB meetings the admission procedure for senior colleagues 
       and the criteria for limited authorship were approved; Saclay, IN2P3, 
       Kansas State University and the University of Washington were admitted; 
       The University of Kansas was accepted as full member, as opposed to 
       provisional, based on increasing time commitment from its people. 
       Discussions continue with regard to NIKHEF. The committee on authorship 
       rules feels little need for change. 

    3) There is a call for nominations for a new deputy IB chair. Nominations 
       should be sent to Wyatt and Marcel by noon Friday, May 8. 
       (see also previous mailing)
 
    4) The term of the Fermilab IB reps is two years and Marcel's term is 
       up, so a call is out for nominations for a Fermilab ib rep. Nominations
       should be sent to Wyatt by noon Monday, May 4. The procedure adopted
       is that the person receiving more than 50% of the vote is elected. 
       Runoffs will be scheduled until a candidate achieves that level. The 
       number of candidates in the runoff will be determined by the ib rep. 
       (see also previous mailing) 

    5) Fermilab will be hosting the d0 summer workshop from July 7-11, 1998. 
       There was a call for volunteers to help organize this and think about 
       what cachet to give the workshop. There was some sentiment that holding 
       the meeting off-site, but close to Fermilab might be beneficial. 
       Pheasant Run in St. Charles was suggested. 

    6) Computing for Fermilab physicists. The Dzero department has about 
       $100K in CompDiv funds for support of physicists. In addition to 
       our own physicists, Fermilab supports about 20 desktops for those 
       collaborators who do not have the resources to support themselves 
       adequately. The suggested expenditure of these funds is on desktop 
       PCs, home PCs or Xterms and 'tmp' disk on Challenges (or local UNIX 
       boxes). The typical costs are: 
       'top of line' PC: $2K cpu, $1.2K 21" monitor
       'low end' PC: $1K cpu, $250 15" monitor
       'home pc':  either 'low end' or hand-me-down
       disk: ~$100 per GByte
       UNIX workstation (of reasonable size): $5-10K. 
       A questionnaire will be distributed to everybody asking for their needs 
       with respect to computing.