X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/wiki.git/blobdiff_plain/92ba171e861e84030d0750a38adba3d2d7725bd0..74ca3ada0724031f376747e49fe8e3e938bb0117:/join.mdwn diff --git a/join.mdwn b/join.mdwn index ebfbeae..e1bf693 100644 --- a/join.mdwn +++ b/join.mdwn @@ -12,15 +12,26 @@ contribution to the organization, and confers several benefits: * A vote at SIPB meetings and (for current students) elections. Prospective members interested in becoming full members should attend -our weekly meetings regularly, participate in SIPB activities like +our weekly meetings regularly (they're Mondays at 7:30 PM), 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|projects]] or help with some existing [[SIPB projects|projects]]. This process generally takes about a term of active participation. +To get involved in SIPB projects, you can hack on an existing +project—begin by talking to the people currently working on +it—or start a new one. 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. + + ## The office -![The office fills with people working together in a hackathon.](../photos/office-hackathon.320.jpg) +The office fills with people working together in a hackathon. Prospective members are encouraged to hang out in the SIPB office anytime it is open, which it is on a typical weekday afternoon and