X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/wiki.git/blobdiff_plain/5c90f35e6fdbb6ded2bf2c149835a86986b0f773..7531580195a302fecdd4bcb21dbad1cac1aa9c13:/join.mdwn diff --git a/join.mdwn b/join.mdwn index f9a89be..936e42a 100644 --- a/join.mdwn +++ b/join.mdwn @@ -1,17 +1,10 @@ # 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 in helping users with unusual computing questions, consider becoming a -member. Full membership in SIPB is granted after sustained +member. Full [[membership|members]] in SIPB is granted after sustained contribution to the organization, and confers several benefits: * A permanent Athena account. @@ -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), -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