[UW-GIS-L] Fwd: 1-year timeout student versions of ArcGIS Desktop v. 10

[Phil Hurvitz]

Oops, I neglected to add "mailstop" to the form, please use this:

Name:
Department/School:
UW Mail Box#:
Course:
Course description:
Quarter/year:
Number of copies of ArcGIS needed:
I agree to provide technical support to students to whom I distribute
student copies of ArcGIS [provide your initials]:
I agree to tell students about software use restrictions [provide your
initials]:

-P.

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     Phil Hurvitz, MFR | PhD Student, Urban Planning | CBE
         1107 NE 45th Street, Suite 535 | Box 354802
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington  98195-4802, USA
phurvitz at u.washington.edu | http://gis.washington.edu/phurvitz
"What is essential is invisible to the eye." -de Saint-Exupéry
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 1-year timeout student versions of ArcGIS Desktop v. 10
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:49:54 -0700
From: Phil Hurvitz <phurvitz at uw.edu>
To: UW-GIS-L <uw-gis-l at u.washington.edu>

To: faculty of the University of Washington using ArcGIS Desktop (all
others may ignore this message):

ESRI is trying to centralize the distribution of 1-year timeout student
versions of ArcGIS Desktop. Right now they are at v. 10 (ArcInfo run
level). I recently rec'd 500 copies of this, so if you need copies for
your students, let me know and I can drop some in campus mail. If we run
out, I'll order more.

This is a very generous offer from ESRI as part of our statewide public
higher ed license agreement, but there are a few things you need to be
mindful of:

Please be respectful of my time by not sending your students directly to
me (they will be ignored), and also try to make single comprehensive
requests for the entire term rather than piecemeal requests.

When students register the software, let them know to make sure to spell
out "University of Washington" completely, otherwise the license request
has to get reviewed by a human at ESRI, which will delay licensing.

While the software comes "free" it is not a "freebie." By distributing
the software you (or your TAs) are tacitly agreeing to provide a first
line of technical support for the installation and operation of the
software.

The software is to be used strictly for **non-commercial** and
**academic** purposes. Students may use the software for coursework or
personal research, but may not use the software for direct financial
gain to themselves or other parties (i.e., they cannot use the software
if they are working as interns for private companies or non-profit
organizations--these entities need to have their own software licenses).

We do have technical support from ESRI, but this is strictly limited to
"software is broken" or enhancement requests--this technical support is
**not** to answer questions about how to use ArcGIS. For support on
software use, direct your students to uw-gis-l
<http://gis.washington.edu/uw_gis_l>.

If students do need technical support, please act as an intermediary to
make sure that the request is legitimate and meets the requirements for
creating an incident at ESRI (see
http://gis.washington.edu/esri/tech_contacts), and submit the request
yourself rather than having the students submit the request. Support
requests that are not legitimate, incomplete, or are actually software
use questions are likely to be ignored.

If you are a student, please contact your instructor in order to have a
request made on your behalf (messages from students directly to me about
this program will be ignored).

If you are an instructor, to make a request, please fill in this form
with your information. If you are teaching multiple courses, please fill
in a description and count for each course (this will be good feedback
for ESRI), and also give a total number of copies needed.

Name:
Department/School:
Course:
Course description:
Quarter/year:
Number of copies of ArcGIS needed:
I agree to provide technical support to students to whom I distribute
student copies of ArcGIS [provide your initials]:
I agree to tell students about software use restrictions [provide your
initials]:

-- 
-P.

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     Phil Hurvitz, MFR | PhD Student, Urban Planning | CBE
         1107 NE 45th Street, Suite 535 | Box 354802
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington  98195-4802, USA
phurvitz at u.washington.edu | http://gis.washington.edu/phurvitz
"What is essential is invisible to the eye." -de Saint-Exupéry
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