The MIT SIPB Webmasters

There are ten +/- 2 webmasters, and we are all students or graduates of MIT. With classes (and jobs), we're doing our best to keep up with mail to webmaster@mit.edu.

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. By the way, here are some of our policies and Frequently Asked Questions. And here's a table of contents:

Who we are. The list right below.
Our non-webmasters. No comment.
Our history. It won't make the bestseller list.

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.

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. Eri also does maintenance, writes short useful guides and blurbs, and has even started mucking with CGI scripts. Perl is your friend (sometimes). Did we mention the graphics on the official MIT server? Alas, but Eri has no time...

Fred (tritan@mit.edu)

Fred maintained the MIT Activities homepage list. He also has begun doing maintenance work with other parts of our server.

Mike (mjbauer@lcs.mit.edu)

Mike is adding homepages and getting lots of mail about the server.

Jake (harrisj@mit.edu)

Jake is back in town and working as a webmaster again. His current projects involve hacking out CGI scripts, answering user mail, and thinking of absurd projects to do on the web server.

Jessie (sorokin@mit.edu)

Our boomerang webmaster.

Wrong Mike (mwhitson@mit.edu)

Web Serf and Perl Peasant, he tries to be as helpful as he can. He is currently working for I/S on the official MIT web server, as well as trying in his copious spare time to hack together a threaded version of httpd.

Yonah (yonah@mit.edu)

Our newest addition. Well, not quite.

Jeff (jcb@mit.edu)

Jeff is learning the layout of our web server so he can figure out how he can be most useful.

Richard (basch@mit.edu)

Has just joined the ranks of the Web maintenance. He is currently helping add homepages, and hopefully will fix the flaky weather service. While he is not involved with SIPB, he spends his time hacking on Athena officially as an employee of I/S.

Yoav (yoav@mit.edu)

Yoav is officially, at his own insistence, not a webmaster, but he helps us out with maintainance of the machine.