Re: Suggestion re: Joining process

On 12 Sep 2011, at 7:44 AM, Jarred McGinnis wrote:

> When someone posts on the community group should I be getting an email
> to notify me? 

Hi Jarred,

We do not have that configuration set up. 

I was wondering whether you think it might be valuable for _all_ group participants to be notified when there is a new post. (That may be easier to do, but I need to investigate whether it's possible at all.)

Ian

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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:public-council-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Ian Jacobs
> Sent: 09 September 2011 20:12
> To: Tom Baker
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> Subject: Re: Suggestion re: Joining process
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> On 9 Sep 2011, at 1:28 PM, Tom Baker wrote:
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>> On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 12:46:43PM -0500, Ian Jacobs wrote:
>>>> Unless I'm missing something, on
> http://www.w3.org/community/vivo/join one
>>>> can join a group by clicking on one of two mailto: URIs (either one
> has control of
>>>> patents and copyrights, or one doesn't).  But I do not see a way to
> join
>>>> without clicking on a mailto: URI...?
>>> 
>>> That's the view you see because of the current state of your account.
> Other people see other things at the same URI depending on their account
> information.
>>> 
>>> Here's what's going on:
>>> 
>>> * You are an invited expert
>>> * Before you can join the group we need to update your account with
> information related to IPR. In the future you'll be able to update your
> account yourself and not need to email the team. 
>> 
>> Understood.  However, the text says "Currently, your account does not
> have this
>> affiliation information, so we request that you update it by following
> one of
>> the following links"...  It doesn't say: "Please send email to the
> team at
>> (address) or following one of the following links".
> 
> Good feedback. I'll make that change.
> 
> Thanks, Tom!
> 
> Ian
> 
>> 
>>> * You only need to update your account once (by sending us the info
> we need).
>>> * Then you can join.
>>> 
>>> Other people (not in this situation) see a checkbox and a submit
> button. 
>> 
>> Sounds good - thanks!
>> 
>> Tom
>> 
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>> Tom Baker <tom@tombaker.org>
>> Dublin Core Metadata Initiative - http://dublincore.org
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