Donations

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All information regarding donations will be here.

As of November 29, 2010

Expenses to date

Upgrade to dedicated server, $190.00 (Will receive $50 credit on next invoice for cancelling VPS after a week of use)

New Board Skin $50.00

Donation Mod $35.00

WRF model operations $815.00

Short URL Domain Registration $8.98

Radio show Headset $32.00

Domain Transfer $29.19

IPB License + IP.Chat Hosting: $229.98

We have exceeded our donation goal! Thank you members! Please see the donation tab for how much we collected.

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EXPENSE

Reimbursement to Met Tech (Cory) of $815.00

WHY

Cory, who is our WRF Tech, purchased hardware parts from newegg.com to build our second WRF Server/node that, when coupled with a donated machine that will serve as the main WRF server, will enable us to run the WRF at a 5KM resolution for the ENTIRE United States instead of only select high density areas. Output will be near NCEP quality. We will have a more detailed write up on this once it is ready for production. Target date is sometime in early to mid December. The purchase was authorized by AmericanWx today and Cory bought the material for the new server this afternoon.

ACCOMPANYING DETAILS

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EXPENSE

Purchace of IPB License and IP.Chat

WHY

We have been currently utilizing the license of a fellow member. We felt it necessary to purchase a license under our board name and have a support line with IPB. The borrowed license had an expired support line. The IP.Chat hosting add-on is to replace the tinychat module to allow moderating within chat and have a more seamless usage between chat and forums.