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Sign Up as a SIP User
Please sign up as a user of SIP. There are at least two reasons that you
should consider signing up:
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Signed-up users can receive the "SIP Newsletter." From time to
time, I will send out information (a "SIP Newsletter") to those who elect to
receive this e-mail service. You can always discontinue your reception
of the newsletter by simply sending me an e-mail to that effect.
While SIP users from the general public will
benefit from this newsletter service, instructors at colleges/universities or high
schools may find this service quite important. As discussed on the Known
Bugs/Reporting a Bug web page, I plan to correct reported bugs as quickly
as possible, placing the corrected version of SIP online as soon as possible
(one of the advantages of web-based software). Instructors would benefit
from knowing of any such changes to SIP, which would be documented in a very
short newsletter. Furthermore, instructors will want to know of any enhancements
to SIP (such enhancements will only be made outside regularly scheduled
university semesters). Lastly, this newsletter can be used to pass along
any tricks, tips, or other SIP-related information that users have communicated
to me (e.g., websites with particularly interesting FITS images for use
in SIP).
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Demonstrable interest in SIP will help me.
While I certainly plan to address bug issues, and maintain
the quality of the SIP project, it's hard to expend the necessary time
and energy required by this project when
there is very little feedback on the result! While interest in a commercial
software package is automatically recorded with a purchase, a web-based
package such as SIP is free to the user --- and essentially leaves no simple
record of that usage. Please help me by recording
your interest/usage by signing up for this newsletter.
To sign up as a SIP user, please fill in the following form. This information will not be
published on the web (or elsewhere).
I may publish the
number of users of SIP, and the number of users in various categories (e.g., college/university,
high school, private user,...).
The
Title (e.g., Associate Professor of Physics) and Affiliation (e.g.,
Big Campus University) entries are meant for instructors or others using SIP in an
educational/professional setting;
but general users may enter information here if they wish. The E-Mail Address
is important since
I will need it to communicate with you; your Website address is an optional entry which
you might want to use to let me in on what you are up to. Under How You Might Use SIP
please consider telling me about how you might use
SIP even if you are not sure (e.g.,
personal usage, as an instructor in a class called such-and-such with xxx number of students,..).
The Other Comments area is for just that. If you are interested
in providing a mirror site for SIP at your
institution/organization, let me know!
Thanks for your support!
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