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FREE CONTEST!
Fill out this form and send it to STAR to be entered in a free
drawing. Win the Apogee product of your choice plus a free STAR
tee shirt! No purchase required to enter the contest.
Name:
Address:
Address:
Phone:
If you want to join STAR, answer the following questions:
Membership class preferred:
[ ] user
[ ] developer
[ ] distributor
Annual membership dues enclosed: (Make checks payable to STAR)
[ ] user $30.00 (non-voting membership)
[ ] basic $50.00
[ ] contributing $100.00
[ ] supporting $175.00
[ ] Super STAR $250.00+
Joining STAR entitles members to receive future issues of
STARgazer (which may or may not be distributed through shareware
channels) as well as the benefits and discounts that become
available.
Comments to STAR: (Use additional paper if necessary)
Mail the above form to our treasurer and membership chairman:
Roger Arias
Membership Coordinator, STAR
c/o Contact Plus Corporation
P.O. Box 372577
Satellite Beach, FL 32937-0577
If you are having any trouble filling out this form online,
try printing the file "orderfrm.txt".
About STAR's Officers
èPresident: Glenn Tippetts
Glenn Tippetts was born 35 years ago in Henderson, Nevada
and currently lives in Bend, Oregon. His company, OSCS
Software Development, Inc., was founded along with Dave
Riley in February, 1990. Currently OSCS employs 9 people.
Their primary product is QuikMenu, a graphical menu
interface for DOS. Shareware and commercial versions of
QuikMenu are available. Currently they have registered
users in over 30 countries. QuikMenu was voted the Best
DOS Graphics Menu Program by both PC Journal and the
Institute for Technical Advancement, and was nominated
for Best New Product at the 1992 Summer Shareware Seminar.
OSCS is planning to release more shareware products in the
4th quarter of 1992.
èVice President: Gary Alston
Gary L. Alston is the owner of Alston Software Labs of Modesto,
California. ASL produces a variety of software titles, some
of which are available as shareware.
By day, Gary is 50% stock holder and Chief Technical Officer
of ITP, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA.) a silicon valley equipment
manufacturer of measuring and inspection systems. ITP sells
$2.5M - $5 M annually and has 18 employees, with branch offices
in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Germany and the U.K. ITP sells
hardware and software into the semiconductor and biomedical
industries.
ASL, started in 1991, is an effort by Alston to expand into
the consumer software market. Their first effort, Collect!,
is a tool for collectors. This VGA based GUI driven program
allows collectors to work intelligently with any collection
type, and is mor analysis tool than database. Subsequent
efforts are Windows-based programs. The latest ASL release,
FuzzGen, is an outgrowth of the realtime logic disciplines
required by ITP. FuzzGen, a shareware CASE tool, allows
modeling and source code generation of Fuzzy Logic Decision
making algorithms in Pascal, BASIC, and C.
ASL now has six employees and is on pace to produce a minimum
of 6-8 shareware and 2-4 retail programs per year.
èTreasurer and membership coordinator: Roger Arias
Roger is the Marketing DIrector for Contact Plus Corporation,
producer of Contact Plus contact management systems. Born Roger
A. F. Arias on July 11, 1961 in Burlington Vermont, Roger earned
a bachelors degree in Business Management from the University
of Central Florida in 1986. After serving 4 1/2 years as an
active duty Aviation Officer in the U.S. Army flying UH-60
helicopters, Roger elected to pursue a civilian career while
continuing to serve in the Army Reserves. In August of 1990
Roger was introduced to Ed Trujillo, the President of E.
Trujillo Software, now Contact Plus Corporation, and subsequently
joined the company.
Present responsibilities include product awareness including
reviews, product packaging, marketing materials, introduction
of products into marketing channels, sales, and providing input
on product development.
èSecretary: Richard Jolitz
Richard is 26 years old. He is originally from Indianapolis
Indiana, and is currently living with his mother and grandmother
in Winter Springs, Florida. He is a certified Paramedic and
works in the Emergency Room of Humana Hospital.
Richard is a self-taught Pascal programmer and blossoming
shareware author. His first program is called MEDBASE, a
home medical database that will allow you to input various
bits of medical information along with family information
and will print out a report. This report will be ready to
take to the new physician, or the ER.
Richard's company is called "High Ventures". It is a
diversified company that includes some shareware vendor
interests.
Richard is currently working on a freeware project entitled
"Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About AIDS But Were
Afraid to Ask" and is interested in hearing from Turbo
Pascal programmers who want to help. If you want to get
involved, write to Richard at P.O. Box 195853, Winter
Springs, FL 32719.
About STAR
Mission Statement
STAR is a trade association established to provide the shareware
community with a vehicle for networking, resource-sharing,
publicity and marketing assistance. STAR promotes the free and
open exchange of information, creative expression and quality
and ethics in shareware. STAR will heighten the public's
awareness of shareware and will advance the state of the
shareware industry.
Brochure Information
Shareware Trade Association and Resources
WHAT IS STAR?
STAR is a revolutionary idea in the shareware industry: an
association embracing all members of the shareware community.
Membership in STAR is open to all authors, sysops, vendors,
publishers, distributors and users of shareware. All members of
the shareware community are invited to join in the discussion of
shareware issues and enjoy the benefits of the information and
services provided by STAR.
PURPOSES
1. Education
Educate the software buying public as to what shareware is:
licensed, copyright protected software, with few restrictions on
distribution, and a limited payment-free trial period. Endeavor
to increase public awareness and understanding of shareware as
an attractive software alternative.
Educate shareware authors and vendors about what their
respective rights and responsibilities are.
2. Foster Open Communication
Provide vehicles for discussing issues relating to shareware.
Reasonable efforts will be made to discuss shareware issues
publicly so that all may benefit from the information.
Vehicles for communication will include such things as public
forums and conferences on bulletin boards, echo-mail
conferences, and electronic information services, with the
understanding that as technology changes, efforts will be made
to expand communication channels.
Provide a newsletter for members and nonmembers (in electronic or
other format) to present information as well as opposing
viewpoints, and strive for a balanced presentation of shareware
issues.
3. Marketing Assistance
Provide information for shareware developers and distributors
about what kinds of development and marketing strategies are
most effective.
Understand that shareware exists in the larger software
community, and discuss methods and advantages of marketing
shareware through retail channels and retail software through
shareware channels.
PHILOSOPHY
STAR will promote standards of shareware ethics and quality.
All elements of the shareware community are welcomed. Members
shall not be excluded from STAR because of the size of their
company, the popularity of their products, or the quality of
their product or marketing effort. Successful members are
encouraged to help other members improve products and marketing
strategies.
Members shall not be excluded from STAR based on race, creed,
religion, sex, health, sexual preference, physical appearance or
mental fitness, or any other physical or cultural basis.
STAR will not interfere with the business practices of its
members other than to make suggestions and provide information.
Important policy decisions shall be based on democratic
principles, with developers and distributors both having the
right to vote on policy. A system of checks and balances will
prevent one subset of the membership from imposing policy on
another subset.
Issues will be discussed openly with the understanding that
opposing points of view exist and are beneficial to
discussions. Issues shall be considered separate from club
policy, and regulations based on issues shall be kept to a
minimum.
Whenever possible STAR will collect data to facilitate the
discussion of issues.
We will keep current with changing technology and the changing
marketplace and make information available so members can adjust
their programming and marketing strategies accordingly.
Members who violate commonly-accepted standards of ethics and
morality, or who break laws of any community, may have their
business practices subjected to public scrutiny and debate, and
possible censure by the membership.
BENEFITS FOR MEMBERS
(subject to change)
-- Networking with authors, vendors, publishers, sysops and
users
-- Access to current information about shareware technology,
issues, events and marketing
-- Forums for discussing concerns about shareware issues on
CompuServe, Genie, and Ilink.
-- Mailings to distribute disks to vendors, sysops, user groups,
etc.
-- Mailings to distribute information about programs and shareware
developments to the media
-- Discount on Jim Hood's $hareware Marketing $ystem newsletter
and mailing list
-- Discount on hardware, magnetic media and services
-- Discount on advertising in Shareware Update magazine
-- Much more!
DEFINITIONS
Developer: Anybody who has ever developed software and given
permission for that software to be copied freely under any
limited or unlimited circumstances, or is in the process of
creating such software.
Distributor: Anybody who provides evaluation copies of
shareware to the public for free or the price of the media and
the service, including vendors who sell shareware through
catalogs and sysops who distribute shareware on bulletin board.
User: Anybody who has evaluated and registered one or more
shareware programs.
(Note: a publisher is anybody who markets and supports software
written by somebody else. A publisher will be considered a
developer if actively involved in the development of the
software he or she is marketing, otherwise the publisher will be
considered a distributor.)
VOTING
Initially there will be two voting classes, and one nonvoting
class:
* Developers (voting)
* Distributors (voting)
* Associate members, including users (non-voting)
Members choose which class they belong to. They can only belong
to one membership class.
Both voting and nonvoting members may fully participate in
discussions of issues. Discussions will be held in public.
While the entire membership may participate in discussions, all
voting will be conducted within each voting class. For example,
authors will vote with the developer class while vendors and
sysops will vote with the distributor class. Policy decisions
require a majority vote within both voting classes. A class may
not establish policy under its own name or that of STAR by
itself.