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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Announce the hackathon at the SIPB meetings coming up to it.
 
 Send out an email to sipb-announce@mit.edu, mentioning date, time,
 place, name, etc.  Sound excited and enthusiastic.  Add a "tl;dr" for
-lazy people.
+lazy people. They traditionally start 1pm and go until 11pm or so. Any earlier and people don't wake up early enough and the office is lonely. 
 
 Create a Facebook event.  You probably want to be an administrator of
 the SIPB Facebook group for this.
@@ -114,7 +114,9 @@ Note that the wiki has no "create page" button, and there is no "edit"
 button on pages that don't exist.  To create a new page, go directly
 to
 
-    https://sipb.mit.edu:444/ikiwiki.cgi?do=edit&page=<PAGE>
+    http://sipb.mit.edu/<NEWPAGENAME>
+
+and click on the question mark.
 
 To add a redirect on a page, the wiki code you want is
 
@@ -124,7 +126,7 @@ Zephyr:
 -------
 
 Encourage discussion on zephyr, either on -c sipb or 
--c <HACKATHON_NAME>.
+-c $HACKATHON_NAME. Don't spend a bunch of time trying to get people set up on zephyr. Consider asking Matt Goldstien (austein) to set up a gateway from a zephyr class (not -c sipb) to an AIM gateway.
 
 
 Social stuff: