-# Joining SIPB
+[[!meta title="Joining SIPB"]]
## Membership
project|projects]] or help with some existing [[SIPB projects|projects]]. This process
generally takes about a term of active participation.
+To get involved in SIPB projects, you can hack on an existing
+project—begin by talking to the people currently working on
+it—or start a new one. The best way to start
+a SIPB project is to pick some computing-related problem that is
+important to you, find some like-minded individuals, and try to solve
+it, discussing your ideas and plans around the SIPB office, and
+reporting on your progress to the SIPB. The most successful SIPB
+projects have often been things that the people involved really wanted
+to do, and found resources or collaborators to do them through SIPB.
+
+
## The office
-![The office fills with people working together in a hackathon.](../photos/office-hackathon.320.jpg)
+<img class="right" alt="The office fills with people working together in a hackathon." src="../photos/office-hackathon.320.jpg"/>
Prospective members are encouraged to hang out in the SIPB office
anytime it is open, which it is on a typical weekday afternoon and
projects, homework, or anything else by providing an array of amenities:
* Nice chairs, big monitors, many computers, table space for laptops
-* Music: ours (CDs or [LAMP](https://lamp.mit.edu/)) or yours (via AirTunes or a certain "printer")
+* Music: ours (CDs or [LAMP](https://lamp.mit.edu/)) or yours (via a certain "printer")
* Tons of equipment and supplies from video adapters to an oscilloscope to Band-Aids
* A diverse technical library, including popular textbooks
* Soda and snacks for late-night sessions, cheaper and closer than Verde's