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

[Phil Hurvitz]

A note to those instructors who want student versions: if you neglect to 
fill out the form I will probably ignore your request.

-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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On 9/29/2010 9:59 AM, Phil Hurvitz wrote:

> 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]:

>