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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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| ARK Subproject-C | ||
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| Description: ARK Subproject-C is a smart calendar module with a chat-based interface that enables students to manage their schedules using natural language. The interface is built on a modular framework based on LLM tool-calling, allowing the quick integration of future modules (apps) developed. tldr. LLM app store, calendar module "Subproject-C" is our first app | ||
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| Last revised by nmorgan at 2025-04-05 14:53:18 | ||
| Cluedumps and IAP Classes | ||
| Status: active | ||
| 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 colclark at 2025-03-03 19:57:38 | ||
| 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. | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| Last revised by almonds at 2025-09-08 17:54:11 | ||
| 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! | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| Last revised by skylarh at 2025-07-22 23:35:18 | ||
| Lemonpepper | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: Lemonpepper is a server that has libvirt installed to create virtual machines and a network (bridge) setup that allows the virtual machines to get their own IP addresses. Useful if your project requires a virtual machine with more resources or a more recent operating system than what XVM can easily provide, but if getting a physical server would be overkill. | ||
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| Last revised by rgabriel at 2025-01-27 21:38:27 | ||
| 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. | ||
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| Last revised by xy at 2025-09-07 15:39:46 | ||
| 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. | ||
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| Last revised by rgabriel at 2025-09-07 11:53:57 | ||
| 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. | ||
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| Last revised by almonds at 2025-09-08 17:55:16 | ||
| SIPB Analytics | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: Private analytics for SIPB projects! | ||
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| Last revised by turino14 at 2025-07-22 21:14:45 | ||
| 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. | ||
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| Last revised by turino14 at 2025-09-13 12:04:37 | ||
| SIPB LLMs | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: To provide access and promote understanding of large language models (LLMs) to MIT students, researchers, and instructors. The LLMs we offer are open-source (permissive use) and self-hosted by SIPB. Our intention is to implement the project responsibly, informed with the input of as many stakeholders involved as possible. All project members/roles are encouraged to attend the weekly meetings and contribute to discussion. <3 | ||
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| Last revised by almonds at 2025-03-24 20:05:54 | ||
| 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. | ||
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| Last revised by almonds at 2025-01-28 09:46:59 | ||