-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
-generally takes about a term of active participation.
+We also have a number of more organizational projects, such as running
+[cluedumps](http://cluedumps.mit.edu/) in the fall, and [IAP
+classes](http://sipb.mit.edu/iap). Prospectives often take the lead on
+organizing these.
+
+You can also start your own SIPB project if you're so inclined. 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.
+
+### A possible route
+
+There are many possible ways to get involved in SIPB, but one route is:
+
+1. Take a look at the [[Projects]] page, and identify a project that looks
+interesting.
+2. Look around the website, the bugtracker, and especially any tickets marked
+as being good for new contributors (look for terms like "hackathon", "starter",
+or "straightforward") to get a better sense of what the project is currently
+doing.
+3. Ideally, come up with one or more "tickets" you find interesting. This could
+be a task from the project's bugtracker, or just something that bothers you
+about using the project yourself.
+4. Talk with somebody involved in the project for advice on which possible
+ticket is best to start with and how to implement it.
+5. Code your thing, and talk to somebody involved in the project to get it
+committed.
+
+If you follow something like this process and get some contributions into some
+SIPB project, you're probably doing fine at FTGOS. You probably can't do all of
+that on your own, though. That's fine, since you also need to get socially
+integrated. Feel free to talk to people around SIPB about each of those steps,
+and somebody will probably be happy to help you through them.