event RSVP without creating an account

[steviepubliclab]

It looks like only people who are PL members can RSVP on events. I'll be having PL new comers who might not be ready to register just to RSVP. Don't want to deter people from coming. Perhaps this makes us look like more closed community? Any way we could just have people submit names instead of their user name on this function?

[jywarren]

that's a good idea - maybe it could be kind of like an "onramp" to signing
up... you put in your email address and you'd still get email notifications
for comments. after the event the organizer can do a followup, for example
-- and the notifications for non-logged-in users could have a prompt to
create an account. At some point in the future we could even use the email
address to match so that if they create an account, all the RSVPs they'd
made would be linked to their new account?

If we don't allow them to post text or a link, we don't have to worry about
spammers signing up.

[steviepubliclab]

Oh perfect. this would be Great!

[ebarry]

+1, very cool if we could have this.

[btbonval]

Who will see the list of email addresses that RSVP'd? If the list is
published publicly, spammers will probably drop their URLs into the email
form somehow (like jessicarabbit@pornsite.com/checkoutmylink). I'm guessing
people don't want their email addresses published publicly anyway.

So then there's the question of being closed. We don't want to appear
closed, so how much about an event do we share and with whom?

[steviepubliclab]

Good point. Can these RSVPs be emailed to the person who write the research
note?

[jywarren]

My thought was that nobody sees the email addresses, but that those
addresses are email-notified either whenever anyone else comments, or only
when the note author comments.

[steviepubliclab]

great. but how do we get info about who RSVPs?

[jywarren]

names would show up as they currently do, in the comments feed -- people
would have to put in a name and email.

[steviepubliclab]

sounds good.

[steviepubliclab]

Has this changed yet? Just wondering because I posed another event for a
place that doesn't have a lot of PL members yet.
-Stevie

[jywarren]

Log in or Create an account - or if you prefer not to, simply RSVP with your email:

The form could look like this!

[grvsachdeva]

@jywarren how about opening a new issue for this one? Thanks!

[jywarren]

I'm still not sure how we'd do this... it is easier now with the OAuth login. Is that as easy as entering your email address? Could we consider making an "incomplete user record" that can't do anything but receive emails?

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[grvsachdeva]

I think we can do that. We can create a new table of temporary users which will just contain the required info like name, email, etc.

We can consider to the same in main users table but if in future user try to create account on Public Lab then it could get complex?

[grvsachdeva]

@jywarren

[jywarren]

Hmm, I think we could do this but we would have to search for email users anyways on signup. So maybe we should store them as users with status=5 or something? And look them up when people sign up, and use the same uid? What do you think? But honestly it seems like a fragile system give you can use oath to signup in such few steps.

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[grvsachdeva]

Yes, OAuth really makes signup eassyy. I may be wrong but I think that if anyone is really interested about a event then they can signup?

[jywarren]

Yes. Let's ping @publiclab/community-reps about this -- it's a substantial new system to track just emails, but we could do it if it's a priority. Or we could rely on the newly much easier Login with Twitter/FB/Google process and close this issue.

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