# Joining SIPB
-We are MIT's volunteer student computing group, improving computing at
-MIT since 1969. Today, SIPB projects provide innovative services and
-special expertise to the MIT community. We have an office just
-outside the Athena cluster in the student center W20, and you are
-welcome to come by to ask us for help or to hang around and use our
-computers.
-
## Membership
If you are interested in contributing to SIPB's computing services and
Prospective members interested in becoming full members should attend
our weekly meetings regularly, participate in SIPB activities like
hackathons, [cluedumps](http://cluedumps.mit.edu/), and [IAP classes](http://sipb.mit.edu/iap),
-and either create a new SIPB
-project or help with some existing SIPB projects. This process
+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.
## The office
+![The office fills with people working together in a hackathon.](../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
evening. We strive to make it a fun and comfortable place to work on