Individual Membership

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Section 1: Background

The Croquet Consortium is a not-for-profit foundation established to support the Croquet community-based software development efforts of institutions and individuals. The objective is to provide industry, educational organizations, and individuals with significant opportunities to leverage the distributed expertise and IT investments of the Consortium membership.

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Section 2: Croquet Consortium Objectives

  • Share: Maintain a clearinghouse of Croquet open source software artifacts for everyone’s benefit
  • Federate: Coordinate and share requirements, plans, technologies, and events with other organizations, locally and internationally, dedicated to related goals and projects.
  • Educate: Provide education and research in the applied use of Croquet-based open technology architectures, services, and applications; disseminate the results of innovative approaches in this field.
  • Promote: Develop a global community of interest among practitioners and institutions and inform that community of international activities, projects, and opportunities in the area of Croquet-based open technology.
  • Convene: Foster, through its various initiatives, including conferences, projects, and outreach, an atmosphere of trust, goodwill, and mutual respect amongst all participants; facilitate and encourage mutual support for Consortium projects among community members.
  • Mobilize: Mobilize distributed resources for development and support of Consortium projects.
  • Support: Establish working relationships between higher education institutions and vendor partners that are successful in creating new, mutually advantageous models for software support of open source projects.
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Section 3: The Croquet Consortium Commitment

The Croquet Consortium will provide:

  • A legal home for the Consortium community and its projects
  • Support and oversight to Consortium projects
  • A focal point on the web and at sponsored events for news and dialogue about Consortium activities and projects.
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Section 4: Meetings and Conferences

The Croquet Consortium will hold annual conferences starting in 2007. The consortium may schedule additional events, such as training, workshops, and retreats. Institutional Members can attend all such events at reduced member rates.

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Section 5: Croquet Consortium Governance

Please refer to the Consortium Bylaws.

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Section 6: Individual Representation in Decision Making

In the spirit of open source collaboration and mutual support, formal membership is not required for Individuals to become involved in the communal development and implementation efforts. The Consortium invites all interested parties to ask questions on our mailing lists, participate in our online discussions, post bug reports, fix software problems, or contribute software source code. Each individual is encouraged to contribute as much as they can afford in terms of time and effort. All individuals gain the benefits of everyone's combined contributions. This is the powerful force multiplier of Open Source communities.

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Section 7: Influencing the Direction of the Croquet Consortium

  • Participate: join in Croquet Consortium Conferences and activities.
  • Contribute: Add to the Croquet community development effort by meeting a particular local objective, then sharing your solution and code with the rest of the community.
  • Promote: Act as an advocate for Croquet Consortium within your institution and the larger community
  • Liaison: Communicate with the Croquet Consortium staff on an issue that matters to you
  • Meet Local Needs: Actively direct and shape the community to meet your needs
  • Evaluate: Provide timely feedback to the Croquet Consortium community and staff on any Croquet Consortium-related activities that you have undertaken
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Section 8: Why Become a Member?

For those individuals who wish to have a larger say in the strategic direction of the Croquet Consortium, access to advanced Croquet-based training, and a way of showing their personal commitment to community goals, the Croquet Consortium offers "Individual Membership."

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The Croquet Consortium Individual Membership Agreement

The Croquet Consortium Individual Membership Program (hereinafter called the "Program") has been established by the CROQUET CONSORTIUM, Inc., a 501c3 not-for-profit corporation. [Individual Member Name] (hereinafter called "Member") agrees to participate in the Program as follows:

  1. Member agrees to pay an annual Membership fee in support of the organization (See "Appendix A: Dues")
  2. Members are encouraged to participate in the CROQUET CONSORTIUM community as described above.
  3. Member may attend conferences, meetings, and events as described above.
  4. Member agrees to bear all costs associated with its participation in the Program as described above.
  5. Member will receive access to CROQUET CONSORTIUM board members and staff.
  6. Member understands that funds provided for the Program will be added to funds from other Members and therefore Member will receive no individual financial reports concerning the disposition of the funds provided by them.
  7. This agreement may be renewed upon written mutual consent of the parties any time prior to the completion of the 1-year period.
  8. This agreement may be terminated by the CROQUET CONSORTIUM, Inc. upon thirty (30) days written notice. Financial obligations to the CROQUET CONSORTIUM, Inc. will be settled on a pro-rated basis with any excess prepayment returned to Member.
  9. The Designated Program Administrator is:

CROQUET CONSORTIUM Membership Administrator
Office of Information Technology
Duke University
334 Blackwell St., Ste. 1101
Durham, NC 27701

Croquet at duke dot edu


Member
Name: __________________________
Address: _________________________
Address: _________________________
Phone: ___________________________
Title: _____________________________

Member agrees to participate in the program for 1 year beginning

_____________ (Date)

_________________________________
Signature

_______________________
Title

Checks should be made payable to "CROQUET CONSORTIUM, Inc." and sent to the CROQUET CONSORTIUM Membership Administrator designated above. If preferred, the CROQUET CONSORTIUM will generate an invoice with payment information upon receipt of the executed agreement.
____ Payment is enclosed
____ Please invoice Billing Contact designated below

Billing Contact (if different from above):

Name: _________________________________________
Title: __________________________________________
Phone: __________________________
Fax: __________________________
Email: __________________________
Street Address: _________________________________
City, State, Zip _________________________________
Country: _________________________________

Contact Information: The information requested above is for administrative purposes. Other contact information for you will be provided only to other CROQUET CONSORTIUM members.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions at Croquet at duke dot edu.

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Appendix A - Dues

Croquet Consortium Individual Membership is open to persons who may or may not be affiliated/employeed by Consortium Institutional Members. The Croquet Consortium membership year runs from July 1 through June 30. No matter when you join you will receive all the benefits of that membership year, with dues calculated on a prorated basis; thereafter, you will be invoiced prior to July 1 for the following membership year.

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Individual Member Benefits

  • The right to vote in the General Board Elections for one (1) member of the Board of Directors.
  • Access to Consortium-sponsored open Croquet Training Workshops.
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Dues

Annual dues for Individual Members are $100 USD.

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