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-# Joining SIPB
+[[!meta title="Joining SIPB"]]
 
 ## Membership
 
@@ -18,9 +18,20 @@ and either create a new [[SIPB
 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