Re: desktopsummit registration forces gnome users to have a kde identity

2011-03-11 Thread Richard Stallman
It seems to me that GNOME deserves equal treatment with KDE as regards any sort of registration for the event. Whatever system is being used could be put on another machine, and some pages could be changed, so that it would mention GNOME and KDE equally. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free So

Re: desktopsummit registration forces gnome users to have a kde identity

2011-03-11 Thread Jeff Mitchell
On 3/11/2011 3:28 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > > Frederic Muller wrote: >> It seems that there are 2 options and the identify.kde.org choice was >> taken out of convenience for one party. Why not chose the neutral option >> being fair for both sides instead and avoiding the issue of GNOME asking

Re: desktopsummit registration forces gnome users to have a kde identity

2011-03-11 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 03/11/2011 09:28 AM, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Frederic Muller wrote: It seems that there are 2 options and the identify.kde.org choice was taken out of convenience for one party. Why not chose the neutral option being fair for both sides instead and avoiding the issue of GNOME asking it's user

Re: desktopsummit registration forces gnome users to have a kde identity

2011-03-11 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Frederic Muller wrote: > It seems that there are 2 options and the identify.kde.org choice was > taken out of convenience for one party. Why not chose the neutral option > being fair for both sides instead and avoiding the issue of GNOME asking > it's user to register at identify.kde.org inste

Re: desktopsummit registration forces gnome users to have a kde identity

2011-03-10 Thread Jeff Mitchell
On 03/10/2011 10:03 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > Some concerns were raised, and one potential solution suggested by one > of the KDE admins (Jeff Mitchell) was to use OpenID or something > similar, to allow people to authenticate with whatever service they > already had an account for. > > This didn't g

Re: desktopsummit registration forces gnome users to have a kde identity

2011-03-10 Thread Jeff Mitchell
On 03/10/2011 01:57 PM, Ben Cooksley wrote: > Implementing such a checkbox for further privacy is not feasible (due > to the fact that accounts can never be deleted and your details will > never be shared assuming you never login anywhere again) Ben, Could a checkbox be implemented indicating tha

Re: desktopsummit registration forces gnome users to have a kde identity

2011-03-10 Thread Frederic Muller
On 03/10/2011 11:03 PM, Dave Neary wrote: At the time, there were two choices: require everyone to create a Drupal account just to register for the conference, or use the authentication system which KDE already had in place. After some discussion, for the sake of expediency (this is an existing,

Re: desktopsummit registration forces gnome users to have a kde identity

2011-03-10 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 07:57:53AM +1300, Ben Cooksley wrote: >> Due to the way the application is built, a entirely seperate copy of >> the application would have to be set up, and it would administer the >> same data. > > Ok, seems too much

Re: desktopsummit registration forces gnome users to have a kde identity

2011-03-10 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 04:47:28PM +0800, Frederic Muller wrote: >> What a nice answer... The problem is not about growing up but about >> preserving the GNOME identity. > > What is the problem exactly? I'd feel weird registering at an KDE sit

Re: desktopsummit registration forces gnome users to have a kde identity

2011-03-10 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 07:57:53AM +1300, Ben Cooksley wrote: > Due to the way the application is built, a entirely seperate copy of > the application would have to be set up, and it would administer the > same data. Ok, seems too much effort. > >  * guarantee that my details are only used for De

Re: desktopsummit registration forces gnome users to have a kde identity

2011-03-10 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Olav Vitters wrote: > What is the problem exactly? The problem was setting up registration for the Drupal instance which will be the conference website. In December, we agreed to use Drupal and COD (a Drupal conference organisation module) for the website. KDE have a well-established Drupal

Re: desktopsummit registration forces gnome users to have a kde identity

2011-03-10 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 04:47:28PM +0800, Frederic Muller wrote: > What a nice answer... The problem is not about growing up but about > preserving the GNOME identity. What is the problem exactly? I'd feel weird registering at an KDE site, because I'd only register for Desktop Summit (which I view

Re: desktopsummit registration forces gnome users to have a kde identity

2011-03-10 Thread Frederic Muller
What a nice answer... The problem is not about growing up but about preserving the GNOME identity. I would appreciate if the desktop summit organizing committee could consider the request from the GNOME foundation members, and take this seriously. On 03/10/2011 02:52 PM, Kenny Duffus wrote