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 # Joining SIPB
 
 # 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
 ## Membership
 
 If you are interested in contributing to SIPB's computing services and


@@ -21,12 +14,14 @@ contribution to the organization, and confers several benefits:
 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),
 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
 
 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
 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