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The Technology in Alcoholics Anonymous Board and membership make decisions through group conscience. We operate in accordance with Alcoholics Anonymous Traditions, Concepts, and principles. Additionally, the Forum Board maintains transparency about all financial decisions — budgets, contributions, and expenditures. We use funding prudently and solely in support of AA’s primary purpose. Consequently, we ask only Forum members to contribute to our Forum’s support.

The “Contribute” button on the top left of the Forum Home Page shows the current funding level. Specifically, the button’s background color changes to reflect contribution levels. The colors mean the following:

 

    • Red — The Forum has exhausted, or nearly exhausted, its reserves and cannot continue to function. Without a significant increase in contributions, necessary services will stop. Furthermore, the Forum will close within a few months at this level.

    •  Yellow — The Forum covers most or all operating expenses. However, contributions have not yet fully funded the prudent reserve, which requires a minimum of six months of operating expenses.

    • Green — The Forum covers all budgeted operating expenses. Moreover, contributions have fully funded the prudent reserve up to nine months.

    • Blue — The Forum covers all operating expenses and the prudent reserve. As a result, the Board can commit to additional features identified as important. The Forum’s regular Treasurer’s Reports discuss these features in detail.

 

TIAA-FORUM, a registered Colorado charitable association with IRS 501(c)(3) status, supports the forum community. Members fund the forum entirely through voluntary contributions. Therefore, this community exists only through the service and generosity of its members.

This community only exists through the service and sacrifice of its members.

Instructions for Completing this Form

Name:

The name you use here is not verified and only used to control for spam and bot submissions. It will not be tied to your account. You can create and edit a profile disclosing the account name and information you wish to expose to the community (not publicly visible outside the forum) when and after you join.

Email:

Email where the invitation to join will be sent. This will also become a secondary way of logging in or recovering your password. We recommend a personal email address (e.g. your_name@example.com) instead of a “positional” email address (e.g. webmaster@your_intergroup.org) unless you intend for you membership to rotate with the person holding the position in the future. This email address can be changed after you join if you wish to change it by editing your profile information.

Affirmation:

By the group conscience of the members, this forum is only open to members of AA and those non-members of AA supporting AA services (e.g. Intergroup offices, AA service structure, etc.).

Topic Interests:

If you are interested in conversations in more than one  technical topic area (e.g. web sites, answering services, virtual meetings, etc.) or have a general curiosity about AA discussions in general (e.g. topics above and beyond technology like committees and group dynamics), you would probably want to select the default “General” option.

If your primary interest is in Archives only, you probably want to select the “Archives” option. Note that with either option, you will still have access to all topics on the forum but with the “Archives” option, your “home screen” will automatically place you in the “Archives” category where most of those conversations happen.