X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/wiki.git/blobdiff_plain/5c90f35e6fdbb6ded2bf2c149835a86986b0f773..80e56e9dc80559c9b8c3bd03e733cf51394abd03:/join.mdwn diff --git a/join.mdwn b/join.mdwn index f9a89be..ebfbeae 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. +[[!meta title="Joining SIPB"]] ## 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. @@ -21,19 +14,21 @@ 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 projects, homework, or anything else by providing an array of amenities: * Nice chairs, big monitors, many computers, table space for laptops -* Music: ours (CDs or [LAMP](https://lamp.mit.edu/)) or yours (via AirTunes or a certain "printer") +* Music: ours (CDs or [LAMP](https://lamp.mit.edu/)) or yours (via a certain "printer") * Tons of equipment and supplies from video adapters to an oscilloscope to Band-Aids * A diverse technical library, including popular textbooks * Soda and snacks for late-night sessions, cheaper and closer than Verde's