Removing identifying information to protect the innocent (for now). But, we've been seeing quite a few "I just created an account in alioth, and I'm having issues registering for the confernce". It occurs to me that those who are *really* interested are likely to take the time to reach out to us, but those who aren't sure, or don't feel completely invited yet, may be discouraged by this.
Is there a delay between account creation and ability to sign in through summit? I seem to remember there being some sort of process that cron'd every hour or some such. (Which creates delays with account creations and password changes and yadda.) If this is the case, should we have something on Summit that advises people that account creation will take <x> amount of time, and to please wait that long before registering? Patty ----- Forwarded message from ***@***.*** ----- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:08:49 -0700 From: ***@***.*** To: [email protected] Subject: attendance by a non-dev? Hi, I'm not a Debian developer, but I'm about 2.5 years into my GNU/Linux odyssey, now working on meta issues, working to help developers and valuable projects like Debian I happen to live in Portland and am interested in attending at least some of DebConf to (A) network with folks (B) see what it's all about (C) find out ways that I can get involved and learn more although I'm not really a programmer, etc. I made an Alioth account, but trying to sign in through SSO with that brought an error. Should I even worry about registration? If I pack my own lunch and just show up, is that ok? Or can I register another way? Also, any way to get a sense of the most appropriate ways for me to participate? ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Patty Langasek [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------- At times, you may end up far away from home; you may not be sure of where you belong, anymore. But home is always there... because home is not a place. It's wherever your passion takes you. --- J. Michael Straczynski _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
