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-# MIT Student Information Processing Board
+[[!meta title="MIT Student Information Processing Board"]]
+
+<div style='float: right; width: 15em;'>
+<iframe src='http://sipb-door.scripts.mit.edu/widget' />
+</div>
 
 We are MIT's volunteer student computing group, improving computing at
-MIT since 1969.  Today, [[SIPB projects|projects]] provide innovative [[services|projects]] and
-special expertise to the MIT community.  We have an office just
+MIT [[since 1969|history]].  Today, [[SIPB projects|projects]] provide innovative [[services|projects]] and
+special expertise to the MIT community.  We have [[an office|office]] just
 outside the Athena cluster in the student center W20, and you are
 welcome to come by to [[ask us for help|computer_help]] or to hang around, use our
-computers, and maybe [[get involved|join]].
-
-This site is a wiki.  Edit, be bold, start with the [[sandbox]] to play around.
+computers, and maybe [[get involved|join]]. You can find out what's abuzz in the SIPB community at [Planet SIPB](http://sipb.mit.edu/planet).  We host a number of events, which are enumerated on our [[calendar]].
 
 ## SIPB Projects and Services
 What does SIPB do for you?
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 * [scripts.mit.edu](http://scripts.mit.edu/)<br/>
-Get your own blog or wiki, or run any web app!  The SIPB scripts server runs CGI scripts out of your Athena locker.
+Get your own blog or wiki, or run any web app!  The SIPB scripts server runs CGI scripts out of your Athena locker. ([Trac](http://scripts.mit.edu/trac/), [Wiki](http://scripts.mit.edu/wiki/Main_Page))
 * [xvm.mit.edu](http://xvm.mit.edu/)<br/>
-Your own virtual server.  Reliable, easy, and flexible.
+Your own virtual server.  Reliable, easy, and flexible. ([Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/invirt), [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/xvm), [Trac](https://xvm.scripts.mit.edu/))
 * [debathena.mit.edu](http://debathena.mit.edu/)<br/>
-The power of MIT's Athena environment on your own computer.
+Bringing MIT's Athena environment to Debian and Ubuntu, first for our laptops, and then back to the clusters. ([Trac](http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/))
 * [[Your project here!|join]]
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 * [linerva.mit.edu](http://linerva.mit.edu/)<br/>
-Dialup access to Debathena.
-* [[Documentation|documentation]] <br />
+Remote login access to Athena on a powerful Debian GNU/Linux server running Debathena.
+* [[Documentation|doc]] <br />
 Helpful and informative documents about various computing topics at MIT, written by SIPB.
 * [[Computer Help|computer_help]] <br />
 Have a computing question or need some help? Come drop by our office.
@@ -32,8 +34,14 @@ Have a computing question or need some help? Come drop by our office.
 ## SIPB Events
 Every year, SIPB offers a number of awesome computer-related events to the MIT community. Here's a list of some of our events:
 
+<img class="right" src="photos/hackathon-1.jpg" alt="hackathon" />
+
+* [[Ubuntu Global Jam|events/2009-ubuntu-global-jam]]<br />
+Saturday October 3rd. Learn more about Ubuntu and how to contribute.
+* [[The SIPB's 40th Reunion|reunion]]<br/>
+Saturday, October 10th SIPB is having its 40th reunion.
 * [IAP classes](http://sipb.mit.edu/iap)<br/>
-Teach or learn.  Knowledge is power. <br />
+Teach or learn.  Knowledge is power.
 * [SIPB Cluedumps](http://cluedumps.mit.edu/) <br />
 Every year, SIPB hosts a number of computer-related technical talks on a variety of subjects.
 * [[Hackathons|hackathons]] <br />
@@ -42,22 +50,13 @@ Like coding? Come work on cool projects with us at SIPB! We're always looking fo
 At the beginning of each year, SIPB offers tours of the MIT computing infrastructure, including Athena server rooms, interesting labs.
 * [[SIPB Computer Stories|computer_stories]]<br />
 Come listen to interesting computer stories about MIT in this annual event.
-
-
-![hackathon](photos/hackathon-1.jpg)
+* [[SIPB Reading Group|office/readingGroup]]<br />
+Every week we pick, read, and hold a discussion about a different paper relating to computer science.  Come join us!  Blanche yourself onto sipb-reading-group@mit.edu for announcements and access to the papers.
 
 ## Getting Involved
 
 SIPB is always open to new contributors.  You can join one of the projects above or start your own.  Learn more about [[getting_involved|join]].
 
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-This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info).
-
-Unless otherwise specified, all content on this wiki is released under a dual license of
-
- * the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license, and
- * the GNU Free Documentation License, with no Invariant Sections, no
-   Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover-Texts.
+## Contact
 
-This follows the [SIPB Documentation Licensing Recommendation](http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/admin/text/policy/documentation_licensing.txt).
+Our [[office]] is W20-557 in the Student Center at 84 Mass Ave. You can call 617/253-7788 (x3-7788) or e-mail [sipb@mit.edu](mailto:sipb@mit.edu) with questions.