Sign In (certificate required) | Project List | FAQ
Getting involved in one of our projects is one of the most common ways to join SIPB. If you would like to get involved, please email the primary contact for each project.
SIPB has the resources and the expert advice to make your project to improve computing at MIT (better, the world) happen! Come by our office at W20-557 and say hello.
Please email the SIPB Vice Chair at sipb-vice-chair@mit.edu if you would like to get more information about projects or need help figuring out what to do (they don't bite, and would love to help!).
All projects | Active projects | Inactive projects
| arkos | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: ArkOS gives everyone a personal agent that handles their digital background noise. Email, calendar, follow-ups. It plans before it acts and asks when it needs you. | ||
| Link(s): | ||
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by nmorgan at 2026-04-18 17:22:43 | ||
| Courseroad | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: Maintaining and adding features to the courseroad.mit.edu website, a degree planning tool for MIT courses. Our backend is shared with Fireroad (fireroad.mit.edu) and our frontend is written in VueJS. | ||
| Link(s): | ||
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by dtemkin at 2025-12-13 21:23:41 | ||
| delta | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: vhosting is hosting multiple servers from the same machine. delta is a best-effort vhost server for ad hoc open source services. the project was started by almonds who figured it would be more convenient than Web Scripts, XVM, or lemonpepper, for quickly spinning up as-needed services, without allocating new IP address, only CNAMEs. in theory, delta's servers are guided by a principle of statelessness; databases for delta services ought to be from dedicated database servers, like Scripts MySQL. | ||
| Link(s): | ||
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by almonds at 2025-09-08 17:54:11 | ||
| doorpi | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: Doorpi senses when the SIPB Office door is closed & open and displays this information in at https://sipb-door.mit.edu. | ||
| Link(s): | ||
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by turino14 at 2026-01-28 00:57:52 | ||
| DormSoup | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: DormSoup is a web service that takes in student emails from dormspam, extract the event's time, date, title, and location, and automatically add it to a website that all MIT students can peruse through! | ||
| Link(s): | ||
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by almonds at 2025-09-15 21:38:05 | ||
| Eventful | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: Eventful is an event calendar mainly designed for use in viewing the sheer volume of events during REX and CPW. The server's hostname is eventful.mit.edu, running on NextJS. | ||
| Link(s): | ||
|
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by skylarh at 2025-07-22 23:35:18 | ||
| Hydrant | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: Hydrant is a class planner for MIT students. | ||
| Link(s): | ||
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by turino14 at 2026-01-28 00:58:27 | ||
| join-dormspam | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: A one-click wizard for first-year students (and others) to join their dormspam-receiving mailing list by using WebAthena and directly subscribing to the corresponding Moira or Mailman list. | ||
| Link(s): | ||
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by turino14 at 2026-03-16 11:50:22 | ||
| Mastodon | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: https://mastodon.mit.edu is an instance of the Mastodon federated social networking platform, a part of a Twitter-like communications network of independently-run servers. Anyone on any individual server can communicate with the global ecosystem of federated servers, creating a decentralized social network where no one person or corporation has control of everyone’s data. | ||
| Link(s): | ||
|
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by xy at 2025-09-07 15:39:46 | ||
| MIT IdentiBot (SIPB Discord) | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: A catch-all Discord verification bot to allow for various use cases, allowing to verify whether someone is on a specific mailing list, of a given class year, different authentication backends (Touchstone, MIT Admissions website / Slate), and more. | ||
|
Link(s):
|
||
|
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by turino14 at 2026-01-28 00:59:40 | ||
| MIT Matrix | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: SIPB Matrix (codename Uplink) is SIPB's effort to bring the Matrix (matrix.org) network to MIT, providing not just another hosted homeserver, but a practical way to communicate that works with the school's existing social dynamics and ecosystem (class group chats, Moira lists, etc), aiming to reduce the usage of proprietary alternatives such as Facebook Messenger, and exclusionary and proprietary alternatives such as iMessage. | ||
| Link(s): | ||
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by rgabriel at 2025-09-07 11:53:57 | ||
| MIT PeerTube | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: PeerTube is a free and open source federated video-sharing platform leveraging ActivityPub. This is MIT's PeerTube instance hosted by SIPB. Videos can be shared with either the public, the MIT community, or archived privately. | ||
| Link(s): | ||
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by hng at 2026-02-16 19:37:44 | ||
| OpenGrades | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: A student-run project that supports crowd-sourced information about classes at MIT since Fall 2021. This platform is limited to students only so you don't have to worry about your professor seeing your review about the class. The platform is just kicking off, so there might be some bugs including incorrect/missing classes. | ||
|
Link(s):
|
||
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by turino14 at 2026-01-28 01:00:06 | ||
| Petrock | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: Petrock is a service that allows your sites to log users in with their MIT account via Touchstone. Petrock is intended to replace IS&T's now defunct OpenID Connect Pilot and can be an accessible alternative to setting up a Shibboleth server or using CSAIL's Shimmer. For more details, contact us by email or at SIPB's weekly meetings. | ||
|
Link(s):
|
||
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by almonds at 2025-09-08 17:55:16 | ||
| SIPB Analytics | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: Private analytics for SIPB projects! | ||
| Link(s): | ||
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by turino14 at 2025-07-22 21:14:45 | ||
| SIPB Documentation Project | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: The SIPB Documentation Project is a project to document in written form the collective knowledge that SIPB members take for granted or use in maintaining services and projects that is not otherwise written down anywhere. | ||
| Link(s): | ||
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by turino14 at 2026-01-28 01:00:41 | ||
| SIPB Hardware Operations | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: The HWOPS team maintains the physical server rooms for SIPB: maintaining and upgrading our physical infrastructure, coordinating with IS&T and Facilities, and communicating with other SIPB projects that have or need physical computing resources. We are responsible for the operation of the machine room in W20-575A, as well as for some operations of SIPB's servers in W91. We provide physical server space, server hardware, and server support services to other SIPB projects. | ||
| Link(s): | ||
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by turino14 at 2025-09-13 12:04:37 | ||
| SIPB Hyades | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: The SIPB Hyades project is SIPB's next-generation computing infrastructure service, designed to eventually replace Scripts and XVM with a self-configuring Kubernetes cluster deployed on bare metal servers. Hyades is a cluster computing management system (SIPB's internal AWS). Whether a user wants to host their website, run code for a class, or work on a side project, our service will give them a container to fit these tasks. | ||
| Link(s): | ||
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by turino14 at 2026-01-28 01:02:52 | ||
| SIPB Mattermost | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: SIPB's Mattermost instance for communication. Mattermost is an open source, private cloud Slack alternative hosted on XVM. By the way, a lot of SIPB communication happens on Mattermost -- would recommend joining if you haven't already! | ||
| Link(s): | ||
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by turino14 at 2026-03-16 11:53:23 | ||
| SIPB Minecraft | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: Virtual MIT in a Minecraft server! Contact: sipb-minecraft-root@mit.edu or William Moses, wmoses@mit.edu Backup Contact: Shayna Ahteck, asahteck@mit.edu | ||
|
Link(s):
|
||
|
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by turino14 at 2026-01-28 01:03:56 | ||
| SIPB Scripts | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: Scripts is SIPB's most used service, which hosts thousands of websites for the MIT community. scripts.mit.edu is a Linux/Apache web hosting platform for the MIT community. Any Athena user or group locker can host dynamic web applications written in PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, or any other language, or automatically install blog, wiki, and other software via the quick-start autoinstallers. | ||
| Link(s): | ||
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by turino14 at 2026-03-16 11:54:17 | ||
| SIPB Website | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: Keeping the SIPB website nice-looking and up-to-date | ||
| Link(s): | ||
|
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by turino14 at 2026-01-28 01:01:44 | ||
| SIPBlink | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: (WIP!) SIPBlink is an FPGA remote build system, for building, simulating, & uploading digital systems projects to FPGA hardware in the SIPB office or server room, accessible anywhere through a web interface. Our pipeline uses vendor-neutral FOSS steps with fast build times. | ||
|
Link(s):
|
||
Communications Channel(s):
|
||
Role(s):
|
||
Contact(s):
|
||
| Last revised by turino14 at 2026-03-16 11:54:40 | ||