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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!).
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Cluedumps and IAP Classes | ||
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Description: SIPB organizes dozens of IAP classes each year on technical topics both serious and fun. During the fall term SIPB also offers a series of Cluedump talks, with a different topic each week. Add yourself to cluedump-announce@mit.edu if you're interested. We're also looking for MIT students to help keep them running smoothly. | ||
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Last revised by cjq at 2022-12-05 17:41:21 | ||
Courseroad | ||
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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. | ||
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Last revised by gshay at 2022-08-27 19:52:57 | ||
DormDigest | ||
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Description: (Formerly dormsp.am). Our project will take emails from dormspam, extract the event's time, date, title, and location, and automatically add it to a website that MIT students can peruse through! We expect to have it operating by Summer 2023 and ready for Fall 2023. | ||
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Last revised by huydai at 2023-05-04 18:41:18 | ||
Hydrant | ||
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Description: Hydrant is a class planner for MIT students. | ||
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Last revised by cjq at 2023-02-28 17:57:47 | ||
Mastodon | ||
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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. | ||
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Last revised by markchil at 2022-08-23 18:35:12 | ||
MIT Matrix | ||
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Description: MIT Matrix (codename Uplink) is a chat app that integrates with the matrix.org network and the MIT ecosystem (i.e. automatic creation of accounts based on kerbs and integration with Canvas classes and mailing lists), allowing MIT students to create group chats or workspaces for their classes or orgs without needing to resort to proprietary/insecure third-party apps like Facebook Messenger, iMessage, Discord, etc. The goal is to provide this server and to give the MIT community a more cohesive and straightforward messaging experience. Note that the roles below aren't mutually exclusive or the only ways you could join and help, and are instead meant to be guidelines on how you can help. If you're interested in helping, but you're not sure how, or if you think the prereqs look scary but you still want to help, feel free to shoot an email! Everyone is welcome to join! | ||
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Last revised by markchil at 2023-02-01 18:17:33 | ||
SIPB Documentation Project | ||
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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. | ||
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Last revised by huydai at 2022-11-18 19:52:23 | ||
SIPB Hardware Operations | ||
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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. | ||
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Last revised by bds at 2022-08-06 23:02:37 | ||
SIPB Hyades | ||
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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. Hyades uses exciting open-source tools like Kubernetes, etcd, Bazel, Envoy, and Ceph. | ||
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Last revised by huydai at 2022-08-10 21:20:10 | ||
SIPB Mattermost | ||
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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! | ||
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Last revised by almonds at 2023-05-22 20:34:38 | ||
SIPB Mirrors | ||
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Description: SIPB is a download mirror for various open source software projects. In particular, we mirror the package repositories for popular Linux distributions such as CentOS, Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu, providing a fast local copy for the MIT community. We also serve as the upstream for local mirrors at other universities and research labs. | ||
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Last revised by slz at 2022-11-06 01:19:05 | ||
SIPB Project Database | ||
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Description: SIPB Project Database is focused on supporting the process of creating and developing projects within SIPB. We want to make it easier for people to join in SIPB projects and for project maintainers to more easily train new people and advertise their projects to the community. Currently we're responsible for the development of the SIPB project listing website (which you see here), and are looking at expanding our scope to things like: hosting regular project showcases, creating informational workshops about SIPB services, and launching initiatives for supporting onboarding of new members. | ||
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SIPB Website | ||
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Description: Keeping the SIPB website nice-looking and up-to-date | ||
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