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[06] CAN I GET A HISTORY OF ARPA MEMBER VOTES?
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ARPA member votes are usually called to help shape membership policies
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and dues. A vote will usually stem from a discussion on the BBOARD if
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the topic seems like a worthwhile voting topic. Votes are handled
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through the 'vote' command.
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1994 SUSTAINING MEMBERSHIP DUES (pre-ARPA)
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A meeting was held at The Great Outdoors sandwich shop at Preston RD
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in Dallas. There were 10 SDF members in attendance. There an idea
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was proposed to create an SDF Membership to help with operational
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costs. Prior to this, donating to SDF was purely voluntary. In order
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to make the membership desirable, it was discussed and decided that
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the 'ARPA Network Services' be a premium and available to SDF members
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that supported SDF. A vote was called on the system to set the dues
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at $5/month.
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1996 ARPA MEMBERSHIP DUES REVIEW
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A meeting was held at Pasand Indian Restaurant at Coit Rd and Campbell RD
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in Richardson. There were 16 SDF members in attendance. The group
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proposed a review of the ARPA membership dues as there was only 1 or
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2 people paying the monthly dues. A discounted schedule was proposed
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and later voted on SDF to have the following dues schedule:
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$8 - Monthly
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$20 - Quarterly
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$36 - Bi-annually
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$60 - Annually
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It was also noted that ARPA membership would allow SLIP/PPP via SDF's
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dialup numbers as well as an IRC BOT process.
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1998 ARPA MEMBERSHIP REVIEW AND SUPPLEMENTAL MEMBERSHIPS
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In order to make the membership dues easier to pay, it was proposed
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that it become a one time 'initiation fee'. It was then discussed what
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would be considered an appropriate one time initiation fee. A survey
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was run on the system with roughly 200 responses with ranges between
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$200 - $10. It was decided that the intiation fee for SDF ARPA
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membership would be set at $36 so that it would be large enough so
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people would take the membership seriously, but still affordable and
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not a financial burden. Also a vote was taken on new supplemental
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memberships with specific features for ARPA members. These supplemental
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features would help with operational costs:
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users - free
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arpa - $36 one time
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100mb home, 100mb web, 100mb mail
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telnet, ssh, ftp, ytalk, irc, snarf,
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gcc, g++, perl, python, ruby, php
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dns - $20 a year
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domain name service for an internet domain name
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vhost - $14 a month
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webhosting for your domain
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dns, vpm and a private http log
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server - $20 a month
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ability to run a server (talker, mud, bbs)
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background process on a private server
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access to crontab
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robot - $10 a month
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ability to run an IRC bot
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background process on a private server
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access to crontab
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tweak - $20 a year
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ability to customise and increase your quota
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vpm - $20 a year
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20 'virtual pop3' mailboxes
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2003 METAARPA MEMBERSHIP
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MetaARPA was proposed as a sustaining membership and a tier above the
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one time ARPA membership. This membership was designed to allow for
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IRC bots and server processes which were previously their own
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memberships. MetaARPA would also have advanced programming privileges
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to languages such as lisp, java and other CPU / memory intensive
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systems which would be run on dedicated MetaARPA-only servers. Software
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collaboration was also made available with the addition of individual
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member groups, as well as a shared bin directory which could be made
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available to all SDF users.
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MetaARPA - $36 a year
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- MetaARPA only server
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- crontab (mkcron) and background processes (screen)
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- access to advanced programming languages (lisp, java, squeak)
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- shared public bin dir (/sys/sdf/bin)
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- user collaboration (setgrp)
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