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-Stuff to try doing at the hackathon on Saturday, October 25th.
+Here are ideas you can try to get started on a SIPB project.  Some of these are mature projects with active new development a new contributor can help out with, others are only grand plans that need someone to take them on as their own.
 
-Most of these will also be good things to try before or for some time
-after the hackathon.  Talk to the people identified for each project
-to see how you can help.
+Talk to the people identified for each project to see how you can help, or ask the SIPB Chair (`price`) or Vice-Chair (`nelhage`).   The descriptions here are usually accurate but the projects are constantly changing.
 
-If you have a project and want people to help, add it.
+If you have a project and want people to help, go ahead and add it.
 
  * `scripts.mit.edu` -- Talk to `geofft` or `quentin`
   * Find some software we don't have an autoinstaller for, and write an