Slack Directory

Non-team specific Channels

While SSI consists of 6 distinct teams, a large number of channels are general to all SSI members. These channels are great for cross-ssi discussions.

General Channels

• #general - typically for general SSI-wide announcements
• #random - for things you want to share with SSI that doesn’t belong in any other channels
• #dankmemes - pretty self explanatory. Try typing "/dank" in the channel.
• #spacenews - to talk about the current state of space affairs
• #ssipac - politics
• #best-of-slack - compilation of the best moments on SSI slack
• #welcome-to-ssi - channel to welcome new members and answer any questions
• #diverssity - A place to speak about relavant issues
• #women - A place for women and gender minorities to speak about relavant issues and bond and stuff
• #new-frosh - for the new frosh to speak among each other about young people problems

Fun channels

• #ssi-finds-a-path - DnD roleplaying
• #ssi-does-exercise - ssi desperately attempts to stay fit
• #ssi-makes-stuff - a channel to discuss non ssi related personal projects
• #ssiplacesblocks - ssi’s minecraft group
• #ssi-plays-video-games - video games in general, played together.
• #ssi-jams - ssi makes melodic noises

Non team-specific Engineering Channels

Interteam collaboration on a technical projects. Why is it called raccoonworks? Ask someone, there's a story.

• #raccoonworks-eecs - to talk about and get help with random EE or CS related things
• #raccoonworks-me - to talk about and get help with random ME related things
• #prak-ssi

Class Channels

Want to collaborate on a classes with other SSI members? We make channels for classes in the format: #ssitakes[course#]. Ex:

• #ssitakesme203
• #ssitakescs106b

Team Channels

Each team has a general announcements channel of the format: #[teamname] (ex #rockets) where general team wide discussion and announcements will be made. Sub-projects, and often subsystems of subprojects will be in their own channels. This is usually where the engineering takes place!

Rockets

• #rockets
• #rockets-olympus- our largest project each year. We're building a liquid rocket for the world's biggest rocket competition.
• #rockets-pheonix - an experimental staging system rocket for the FAR1030 competition.
• #rockets-themisto- learn how a rocket works for the first time!
• #rockets-iocaste- learn how a rocket works for the first time!

Balloons

• #balloons
• #balloons-cycloon - fly into hurricanes!
• #balloons-baloonarang - get your balloon to come back!
• #mission-control - SSI's mission control software

Sats

• #satellites  - sats general channel.
• #satellites-avionics  - building computers, cameras, and solar panels.
• #satellites-software  - teaching those computers some sweet machine learning.
• #satellites-gnc  - pointing the satellite correctly
• #satellites-structures  - having a satellite.
• #satellites-systems  - putting it all together.

Bio

• #biology - general Biology channel.
• #biology-backspace - biology experiments.
• #biology-device - biology EE/CS for moving fluids around.

Operations

• #operations - running SSI.
• #operations-community - making SSI fun to be at.
• #operations-diverssity - making SSI welcoming to everyone.
• #operations-marketing - making SSI look pretty.

Policy

• #policy - doing the podcast, articles, and lobbying
• #policy-twis - planning our podcast, This Week in Space

Mars

• #mars- designing Mars colonization technology

Contacts

• @Ahmed Abdalla  and @Maya Harris  - Co-Presidents
• @{{{display-name}}}  and @{{{display-name}}}  - Operations Co-Leads.
• @{{{display-name}}}  and @{{{display-name}}}  - Balloons Co-Leads
• @{{{display-name}}}  and @{{{display-name}}}  - Rockets Co-Leads
• @{{{display-name}}}  and @{{{display-name}}}  - Biology Co-Leads
• @{{{display-name}}}  and @{{{display-name}}}  - Policy Co-Leads
• @{{{display-name}}}  and @{{{display-name}}}  - Sats Co-Leads
• @{{{display-name}}}  and @{{{display-name}}}  - Mars Co-Leads