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United-TI is a Programming group for Texas Instruments Graphing Calculator s. It has a Forum that discusses programming in general the TI calculator community, Computer Advice , and anything else of interest ('Open Topic'). There is a Browser -based Java client to connect to the IRC channel #UnitedTI. UTI HISTORY Around December of 2002, many members of Cirrus, Calcbasic, and The Calc Site realized that the Webmasters David , Justin B. , and Alan (in respective order) were really acting as one large group because they were as active at other sites as their own. Site Visitors and members believed they should join forces since they already had an indirect . It did not take long for an agreement towards Consolidation in the effort to improve the efficiency of all sites by optimizing the presentation of information. After some time, a unanimous decision was made to call the new site United-TI. Each affiliated site would be granted one Administrator . This made the main goal of UTI to be a place for all programmers to help each other, share ideas, and discuss anything. Not everything went according to plan. The original plan was to merge Cirrus Programming, Calcbasic, and The Calc Site into one efficient, consolidated group. However, the Webmaster of The Calc Site pulled out to commit to personal obligations and Outer Limit Software requested to join. It was agreed the best way to handle the drop of The Calc Site was to accept The Outer Limit Software with Bryan , its webmaster. Realization that another problem stood in the way of success sunk in: there was not a web host for the new merger. However, as luck would have it, there was another calculator website who wished to join: Prokul Interactive founded by Glen . Prokul also came with Justin W. as a co-founder. On , was quickly promoted from member to moderator of the Open Topic and Web Design forums and shortly thereafter to full Administrator. At this point, UTI still did not have a Domain registered so a vote was held as to what it should be out of a few choices featuring the name United-TI. Once the majority decided United-TI.org, Jon registered it and quickly set everything up. Although not exactly as planned, everything was starting to fall into place. Unfortunately, one great stumbling block stood in the way: the main page was merely a blank white page with a link only to the forum and the forum contained a couple of threads talking about what the main page soon would be. A thread was started to get feedback on this item, and post the ideas the United-TI Staff had for what should be made for the main page. After a few months, Jon put his project Zabotage in place of the homepage, as it was certainly better than a near-blank white page. As updates have come out for Zabotage, they have been added to the United-TI main page, more so then even on the official Zabotage project page. Over the course of time, changes occurred. On , 2004 Chris was appointed as an Administrator with the primary responsibility of global forum moderation. SEE ALSO MAJOR PROJECTS
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