The MIT Webmasters
Well, we know you all are desperately interested in the ever-intriguing lives
of those exciting few, the MIT Webmasters, so here's a page of info about us
just to allow you to feel all that much closer to us and permit us to feel all
that much more important. (no, we don't really look like that picture)
There are six webmasters, and we are all students or graduates of MIT.
Though we're busy with classes and especially the end of term, we've
been keeping up with mail to webmaster@mit.edu
as best we can, so feel free to keep sending it.
We're all members of a volunteer group at MIT, the Student
Information Processing Board (SIPB) (except for one of us, who is a
prospective). Each of the webmasters deals with a slightly different
part of the web maintenance, allowing us to spread the work out.
Please feel free to send us feedback and
commentary.
Web Administrators
- Matthew (mkgray@mit.edu)
- Matthew deals with a lot of the server extensions and writes lots
of perl code. A number of amusing and useful and potentially silly
hacks are in the works. Matthew also preaches the gospel of the web
far and wide with Chad, convincing various MIT groups to put stuff up
on the web, people to write their own home
pages and start their own web servers.
He has been more successful than he ever imagined.
- Jessie (sorokin@mit.edu)
- Jessie rewrites the home page every couple of weeks when we decide
that it is wrong. At the moment she's working on collecting information
and archives focussing on women, especially in computer science and
technical fields. Lately she's been finding herself on Matthew's soapbox
too, and she's managed to fool her boss into paying her to write WWW
propaganda.
- Eric (nocturne@mit.edu)
- Eric has been busy keeping up with mail to webmaster, and writing
extensions to our server, like the
finger and
machine information gateways.
He still follows the other webmasters around and corrects their
typographical and grammatical errors. If you have an idea for a new service
or gateway that we could provide, you might find that Eric is interested in
making it happen. At the very least, you should suggest it to him. :-)
- Eri (rei@mit.edu)
- Eri draws lots of pretty pictures, including the one at the top of
this page. Almost all the artwork in our server is Eri's; keep an eye
out for all sorts of other additions. Eri is also starting to do some
maintenance. She can't seem to get employed in the meantime. Oh well.
- Fred (tritan@mit.edu)
- Fred maintains the MIT
Activities homepage list. He also has begun doing maintenance
work with other parts of our server.
- Mike (mjbauer@lcs.mit.edu)
- As Mike is still under construction, he currently has no specific
duties, although he's adding homepages and getting lots of mail about
the server. He's new. Be nice to him.