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CertAssist
Status: inactive
Description: Download and install your MIT personal certificate using the CertAssist website, even if your browser is not supported by ca.mit.edu.
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Description: anything
Prereqs: none
Contact(s):
  • andersk [at] mit [dot] edu (primary)
Last revised by huydai at 2022-11-18 20:16:26
Courseroad
Status: inactive
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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  • mattermost (courseroad-dev channel)
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Maintainer
Description: Maintaining the frontend and backend of Courseroad/Fireroad to fix bugs, add features, and update the course catalog each year.
Prereqs: None
Contact(s):
  • courseroad-dev [at] mit [dot] edu (primary)
Last revised by projects-database-admin at 2024-09-11 08:00:08
Locker Software
Status: inactive
Description: SIPB maintains a variety of software that can be run on all Athena computers (including your own computer, see Macathena and Debathena below!) - whichlocker (add outland; whichlocker) - rolodex (add sipb; rolodex) - gp (add gp; ecm) - Many, many more (look in /mit/sipb, /mit/outland, /afs/sipb/project, etc.)
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Maintainer
Description: Maintaining the /mit/gp locker on Athena. This locker contains a collection of programs for integer factorization.
Prereqs: None
Contact(s):
  • kenta [at] mit [dot] edu (primary)
Last revised by huydai at 2022-11-18 20:16:59
SIPB Badges
Status: inactive
Description: Recording the achievements of our members through interactive SIPB badges!
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Description: anything
Prereqs: none
Contact(s):
  • jnoguera [at] mit [dot] edu (primary)
  • rihn [at] mit [dot] edu (secondary)
Last revised by huydai at 2022-11-18 20:19:36
SIPB Discord
Status: inactive
Description: A project that creates discord bots that authenticate against your choice of MIT lists.
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Description: anything
Prereqs: discord
Contact(s):
  • sipb-discord [at] mit [dot] edu (primary)
  • mwnguyen [at] mit [dot] edu (secondary)
Last revised by huydai at 2022-11-18 20:20:10
SIPB Documentation Project
Status: inactive
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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  • "docs" on SIPB Mattermost
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Documenter
Description: Writes documentation for various SIPB projects, ensure current documentation wiki is up-to-date
Prereqs: none
Contact(s):
  • cjq [at] mit [dot] edu (primary)
Last revised by projects-database-admin at 2023-11-19 08:00:04
SIPB Hyades
Status: inactive
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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  • "Hyades Development" channel on Mattermost
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Computer Systems Engineer
Description: help design, implement, test, and review SIPB's cluster management software.
Prereqs: previous programming experience in any statically typed language, knowledge of Python and Go or ability to independently learn them, 6.033-level understanding of computer systems, experience with Git, experience with Linux
Contact(s):
  • ryang2 [at] mit [dot] edu (primary)
  • lkdc [at] mit [dot] edu (secondary)
  • huydai [at] mit [dot] edu (secondary)
Last revised by projects-database-admin at 2024-09-25 08:00:06
SIPB Library Project
Status: inactive
Description: The Library Project aims to provide a web interface for managing the SIPB Library. This includes an administration and cataloguing UI, as well as a book scanner and checkout process.
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  • "sipb-library" channel on SIPB Mattermost
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Description: anything
Prereqs: none
Contact(s):
  • gshay [at] mit [dot] edu (primary)
Last revised by huydai at 2022-11-18 20:20:44
SIPB Mattermost
Status: inactive
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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  • "Mattermost" channel on Mattermost
Role(s):
Helper
Description: Feed & water the server every now and again
Prereqs: We'll teach you!
Contact(s):
  • almonds [at] mit [dot] edu (primary)
Last revised by projects-database-admin at 2024-05-22 08:00:12
SIPB Minecraft
Status: inactive
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
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Description: anything
Prereqs: minecraft
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  • sipb-minecraft-root [at] mit [dot] edu (primary)
  • wmoses [at] mit [dot] edu (secondary)
  • asahteck [at] mit [dot] edu (secondary)
Last revised by huydai at 2022-11-18 20:21:55
SIPB Mirrors
Status: inactive
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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  • Email
  • Zephyr (-c mirrors)
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Maintainer
Description: Mirrors maintainers have the following tasks. - Routine upkeep of the server, including sysadmin and popping out the occasional failed hard disk drive. - Review sporadic requests to add new new projects to Mirrors. - Monitor news from upstream projects and update sync scripts as needed. - Plan for hardware upgrades, ideally before current hardware is due for retirement.
Prereqs: Familiarity with general Linux server administration is a plus, but we can teach you! Mirrors also uses the following pieces of technology, but none are prerequisites: - ansible - nginx - ZFS - rsync - Jenkins (for job scheduling)
Contact(s):
  • mirrors [at] mit [dot] edu (primary)
  • slz [at] mit [dot] edu (secondary)
  • achernya [at] mit [dot] edu (secondary)
  • asedeno [at] mit [dot] edu (secondary)
Last revised by projects-database-admin at 2024-10-07 08:00:06
SIPB Publicity Committee
Status: inactive
Description: SIPB runs events, which means SIPB needs posters, dormspam, cool swag, and whatever else our publicity committee can imagine -- sometimes even chalking Stata!
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Publicity Committee member
Description: Provide SIPB events with publicity materials
Prereqs: none
Contact(s):
  • emmabat [at] mit [dot] edu (primary)
Last revised by huydai at 2022-11-18 20:22:32
SIPB Social Committee
Status: inactive
Description: SIPB has a lot of cool people and we should hang out outside of meetings! We need people to remind us to do so by scheduling social events Contact: Emma Batson, emmabat@mit.edu
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Social Committee member
Description: bring the SIPB community together by arranging food mobs, game nights, or other study breaks
Prereqs: none
Contact(s):
  • emmabat [at] mit [dot] edu (primary)
Last revised by huydai at 2022-11-18 20:22:44
SIPB WISP
Status: inactive
Description: SIPB wants to become a wireless internet service provider! Join if you want to point antennas around and figure out how to make a secure and reliable network. We’re really all learning together on this one
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WISP Setup
Description: Pointing antennas around and doing network/authentication things
Prereqs: None
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  • sipb-wisp-root [at] mit [dot] edu (primary)
  • wmoses [at] mit [dot] edu (secondary)
  • emmabat [at] mit [dot] edu (secondary)
Last revised by huydai at 2022-11-18 20:23:04
test
Status: inactive
Description: This is a test project, please disregard.
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Nothing
Description: Nope.
Prereqs: none
Contact(s):
  • markchil [at] mit [dot] edu (primary)
Last revised by markchil at 2022-10-06 20:09:39
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