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We are the **Student Information Processing Board** (**SIPB**), MIT's first computer club, circa 1969. We have weekly meetings and monthly dinners, and we work on [projects](/projects) that serve the MIT community.
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## About us

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More officially, we are MIT's volunteer student computing group, in service of the MIT community, providing innovative services and expertise.

* We hang out, pset, and snacc in our office **W20-557** on the 5th floor of the [Stud (W20)](https://whereis.mit.edu/?go=W20)

* We meet every **Monday** at **19:30**, in **W20-557**, where we catch up on projects and the latest news on technology or the world. See [our meeting minutes](https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/admin/minutes/).

* [Join the Mattermost](https://mattermost.xvm.mit.edu/signup_user_complete/?id=pnfpw5qkpjnxxrq319ynh94eke) to be part of the discussion.
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* During the semester, we have hackathons with pizza and snacks (dormspammed).

* We have monthly dinners at various restaurants (usually Chinese food, suggestions welcome!).

## Join us

* If any of our [projects](/projects) catches your eye, feel free to reach out to the people working on it. Or come with a project of your own!

* Even if you don't plan to work on one of our projects, feel free to attend our meetings or hang out with us on dinners and in the office. You don't need a project to be a member, and your presence will still be appreciated!

* You don't need computer science experience or ample knowledge to join, so come learn with us! Additionally, projects are not just code -- other contributions (such as design, strategies, and art) are appreciated.

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## Trivia

* The **Student Information Processing Board** is the oldest computing club at MIT! We were founded in January **1969**, and still hold weekly meetings on Mondays at 19:30 which are open for anyone to join.

* We work on several projects you probably use, such as [Hydrant, the course picker](https://hydrant.mit.edu). We also maintain MIT's instances of [Mastodon](https://mastodon.mit.edu) and [Matrix](https://matrix.mit.edu), the federated, free, and open source microblogging platform and messaging protocol, respectively.

* We have our **server machine room** (**SMR**) right next to our office, that provides physical servers to our projects and the MIT community (ran by our [hardware operations team](https://hwops.mit.edu/)). In general, we can provide resources for your project, particularly if it serves the MIT community.

For a full list of our projects see [Projects](/projects).

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