SIPB PROSPECTIVE SPIEL CHEAT SHEET
originally by Richard Tibbetts (tibbetts@mit.edu)
contact the Chair (sipb-chair@mit.edu) for current questions
lives at /afs/sipb/admin/text/members/spiel.txt

NOTES TO PROSPECTIZER
The most important part of prospectivization is to make the
prospective feel welcome!  You should be friendly and outgoing, and
DON'T pressure them to get involved with a project immediately.  The
goal is that they should leave feeling like they want to come back and
hang out at the SIPB office again and again!

BEFORE PROSPECTIVIZING THEM:
 - chat with them; find out what they do, what they like, why they're at SIPB
 - don't talk to them like you're trying to figure out what they like so they
   can work on a project; just be friendly and casual -- be interested in them
   for the sake of being friendly and interested in them

TELL THEM WHAT SIPB IS HERE FOR
- Make computing at MIT (and the rest of world) better.
- A place for geeks to hang out.

EXPLAIN ALL THE COOL THINGS SIPB DOES
- Answer user questions
  - "Hot seats" are by the door
- Run servers
  - scripts
  - linerva
  - SIPB afs cell
  - XVM
- Write software
  - Debathena
  - Invirt
- Maintain software on Athena
  - sipb and outland locker
  - other random projects (e.g., python, wine)
- Perform advocacy for increasing computing resources for students
  (e.g., better networking)

WHAT RESOURCES SIPB HAS (make sure they know they should feel free
use any of them!)
- Other SIPB members and prospectives
- Workstations
- Books (should not leave the office)
- Soda fridge & snacks. Instructions on the door.
- Stereo: sipbmp3

THE OFFICE
- encourage them to spend time in the office
- tell them they don't have to be working on SIPB projects to be
  in the office
- most members spend the majority of their time in the office hanging out
  or tooling
- of course, tell them that they should work on a project (if they
  want to), but make sure they know they don't have to start on anything
  right away
- they can come hang out in the office whenever they want to, as long
  as it's open (and warn them that if they're the last person in office,
  they might be kicked out)

WHAT YOU CAN DO AT SIPB
- Answer user questions (in a hotseat or not)
  - You don't actually have to know the answer, you just have to be
    willing to ask the office on behalf of the user.
- Work on your own projects
  - If you need or want SIPB resources to help with your project, just
    ask.
- Work on SIPB projects.
  - There are several outstanding lists of SIPB projects.
    http://sipb.mit.edu/projects/ is generally most current.

HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER
- Get to be known by SIPB people.
  - Subscribe to the SIPB zephyr class (not required!)
    - Lurk for a while to figure out how things work.
  - Ask people in the office what they're working on.
- Further The Goals of SIPB.
  - contribute to projects
  - help users
- more details at /afs/sipb/admin/text/members/how-to-become-a-member.txt .

* Add the new prospective to members_and_prospectives, and the moira list 
  sipb-prospectives.

* Ask if they want to be added to sipb.  Tell them what the list is for,
  that they should feel free to respond to questions, but that they
  should lurk for a while to get a sense of things.

* Add them to the low-traffic lists sipb-minutes, sipb-soc, and
  sipb-jobs, while telling them what they're for.

* Tell them about -c sipb and point them to izephyr if they're not
  familiar with zephyr in general.