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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 colclark at 2024-01-05 21:24:28 | ||
| 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 huydai at 2023-09-11 23:25:24 | ||
| doorpi | ||
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| Description: Doorpi senses when the SIPB Office door is closed & open and displays this information in at https://doorpi.mit.edu | ||
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| Last revised by almonds at 2023-10-06 20:36:37 | ||
| DormDigest | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: Dormdigest 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! Future plans include utilizing running open-source LLMs to improve date/time parsing, adding support for event edit + creation on the website, and Google Calendar integration. | ||
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| Last revised by huydai at 2024-02-25 11:38:24 | ||
| Hydrant | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: Hydrant is a class planner for MIT students. | ||
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| Last revised by colclark at 2023-11-21 12:30:05 | ||
| 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 toomas at 2023-08-07 19:45:29 | ||
| 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 2023-08-02 22:18:49 | ||
| Petrock | ||
| Status: active | ||
| Description: Petrock is a new 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 2023-11-20 11:11:32 | ||
| 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 bds at 2023-08-16 19:43:12 | ||
| 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. | ||
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| Last revised by ryang2 at 2023-09-25 20:01:45 | ||
| SIPB LLMs | ||
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| Description: To provide access and to promote understanding of large language models (LLMs) to MIT students, researchers, and instructors. The LLMs we offer are open-source 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 2023-09-25 19:22:48 | ||
| 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 2023-10-07 18:02:30 | ||
| 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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| Last revised by markchil at 2023-08-09 19:03:44 | ||
| SIPB Scripts | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| Last revised by amigdal at 2023-08-11 00:54:20 | ||
| SIPB Website | ||
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| Description: Keeping the SIPB website nice-looking and up-to-date | ||
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| Last revised by huydai at 2023-05-22 20:30:06 | ||