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| ## page was renamed from MemberManual/NewMember #pragma section-numbers off OK, so it looks like you'll be joining us! In the descriptions below, we'll assume you've already been approved to join. If you haven't yet received an explicit e-mail saying that your application has been '''approved''', then "you've been approved to join" does '''not''' apply to you! Here's what you need to know about the process from here in. It will definitely make life easier for our volunteer administrators if you read ''all'' of this document before doing anything else with your new account, ''including'' sending a payment. [[TableOfContents]] = To complete the joining process... = == Terms of Service == When you applied for an account, you were asked to review and agree to HCoop's [http://hcoop.net/tos.html Terms of Service]. If you have not done so already, please read and familiarize yourself with them. == Payment == Each hcoop member has a balance, keeping track of unspent money that member has sent to the co-op. Most members prepay about a year's worth of estimated charges at a time and send new payments when they see their balances going low. Our policy is that every member must make a refundable "deposit" of $10 on joining. This is equivalent to requiring that your balance stay above that amount. Before we give you an account on our servers, we need an initial payment from you. This should include the deposit amount and some additional amount, as determined by you. Like we said, prepaying an estimated year's costs is popular. If your balance goes below the deposit amount for too long a period, we'll be forced to cancel your membership, unless there are very extenuating circumstances. This means that paying the minimum amount will require that you remember to make frequent payments. You can pay electronically using [http://www.paypal.com/ PayPal] or [http://checkout.google.com/ Google Checkout] on [http://deleuze.hcoop.net/pay.html the new member payment page]. In the comment field, write that the payment is for "Initial payment for yournamehere," where "yournamehere" is the UNIX username you asked for when you applied. '''NOTE''': In the case of Google Checkout, please email payment@hcoop.net and specify both the username of the Google account from which you sent the payment, and also your HCoop UNIX username. You can use any other reasonable payment method you want, as long as it involves United States dollars reaching our treasurer. However, please e-mail payment@hcoop.net about any method of payment not found on the payment page before using it, and wait for approval before going ahead. Keep in mind the service fees associated with each method. For example, Pay``Pal's fees are such that you save money by sending as much money at once as possible. Google Checkout will have such fees once their no-fees promotion ends in January 2008. MemberDues contains more information on payment policies. = E-mail = You should have chosen your e-mail preferences when you applied. What we're referring to is whether you want e-mail to your account to be stored on our servers (and accessed via IMAP or POP3) or forwarded to an existing e-mail address. If you don't choose to forward it away, '''please''' be sure to check your HCoop e-mail box as often as any other personal mailbox! We may need to contact all members with some time-critical announcements. While there was a one-time way to set this preference when you applied, you can change it after joining by editing/deleting your `~/.forward` file in usual UNIX fashion. == Mailing lists == We'll send important announcements through the `hcoop-announce` mailing list. Every member is subscribed to this on joining. This is for on-topic announcements about the co-op and the services we provide. It's moderated, and we don't allow discussion or anything else high volume enough to encourage members to start ignoring the list. '''Since we currently run based entirely on volunteer labor, we're unable to guarantee any uptime for your services if you don't read every message sent to the announcements list in a prompt manner!''' Sometimes we will need your help to keep your stuff going. For less time-sensitive traffic, we have the `hcoop-discuss` list. It's meant for on-topic discussion. There's also `hcoop-misc`, for anything at all that you think might be of interest to hcoop members. Finally, `hcoop-sysadmin` is where our volunteers discuss all day-to-day decision-making and implementation; this list is also open to any member who wants to help out. Subscription to any of these lists is voluntary. You can also set preferences for them after subscribing, including switching them to digest mode. This means that you receive at most one message a day, containing everything sent to the list that day. This increases the average delay to receive a message but decreases volume, in terms of number of messages sent to you. See the section on preferences below for information on setting your subscriptions. Note that it is '''expected''' that you will get an error e-mail if you try to post to a mailing list with a From address besides `you@hcoop.net`. This is no big deal. Just wait for a moderator to see that your message is legit and add the From address that you're using to our whitelist. = And for all the rest... = Please continue reading the rest of our MemberManual. |
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