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{\sf\sc\LARGE\bf The Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)}
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\question{Who are we?}

The Student Information Processing Board (SIPB, pronounced sip-bee) is
MIT's volunteer student group dedicated to computing.  We have an
office just outside the Athena cluster in the MIT Student Center, 
and you are welcome to come to the office to ask us for help
or to hang around and use our computers.

\question{Why should you join?}

The best reason to join SIPB is that you are interested in learning
about and helping people with computers.  All that's really necessary 
to join is an interest in computers.  Amongst our members are
some of the most competent and influential programmers in the world,
and while we try to help any MIT student, we help each other with
technical issues even more.  You'd be amazed at how much you can learn
just sitting in the office and listening to the conversations around
you.

The SIPB office is also a great place to hack.  It's a lot more fun
than hacking alone in your dorm room.  And no one here will ever tell
you that your conversation is too geeky.  Plus, we have a print server
to play your mp3's on.

\question{What do we do?}

We make it easier for you to use computers at MIT.  That may sound
kind of boring, but it's actually a lot of fun, as well as being
tremendously important.  SIPB picks up where the official MIT
computing infrastructure leaves off.

Most of the time, we just hang out in the office, doing our own thing
and helping people who stop by or call us with questions.  We also:
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\item Teach classes over IAP about programming and other computer
topics.
\item Make it easier for students to access Athena by helping them
install Linux-Athena on personal machines.
\item Provide software IS\&T doesn't support -- several AIM clients (such as gaim), the Ogg-Vorbis music system, several programming languages, the vim editor, the Mutt e-mail program, etc.
\item Maintain the MIT usenet server, news.mit.edu.
\item Maintain an AFS cell (AFS is the network filesystem that MIT uses)
to provide space for software and other projects.
\item Write documentation to help people learn Unix, Athena, \LaTeX,
Matlab, etc. 
\item Develop and improve software (some of our members have been
integral to the Linux, NetBSD and GNOME development communities).
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We're always looking for more people who want to help improve computing at MIT or elsewhere!

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\question{How do you join?}

We have a two-tier membership system due to the fact that we have
privileged access to a huge array of hardware and some socially
important MIT network services.  Anyone can become a ``prospective
member'' meaning you have access to SIPB's resources.  After you have
been around a while, and there's a perception that what you're doing
is useful to SIPB, then you can become a ``member'', which means you
get your own key to the office and full administrative access to most
of our machines.

Official meetings are Monday at 7:30 p.m. in the office.  You must
attend four meetings before you can become a member.  Before and after
a meeting there are usually more members and prospectives around than
at other times, but you can hang around the office any time it's open,
and it's often more fun at other times.

\question{How can you reach us?}

The SIPB office is W20-557, on the fifth floor of the Student Center.
Feel free to drop by and ask about joining.  The office doesn't have
set hours, but it is usually open.  You can also reach us by calling 617-253-7788 or sending mail to sipb@mit.edu.

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