Re: Trying to get help with group join UI issue

Hi Mark,

I’ve attached a screen shot of (part of) the join page as I believe you are seeing it. There are two checkboxes on that page. Did you check both of them?

Ian



> On Oct 11, 2018, at 10:53 AM, Mark Hughes <mrh@happybeing.com <mailto:mrh@happybeing.com>> wrote:
> 
> I couple of weeks ago tried creating an issue for a problem (see below),
> then sent an email similar to this one, to w3t-sys@w3.org <mailto:w3t-sys@w3.org>. I haven't had
> a response, so today I tried to join this group again with the same
> results, and then saw this site-comments email address.
> 
> Please can you forward the following issue, or tell me how to get help
> with this.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> theWebalyst (W3C username)
> --
> ISSUE:
> Unable to confirm affiliation 'None' is blocking joining Solid community
> group
> 
> 
> DESCRIPTION:
> I just signed up to a free/public account
> https://www.w3.org/users/110158 <https://www.w3.org/users/110158> and don't have any affiliation.
> 
> Trying to join the Solid community group:
> https://www.w3.org/community/solid/join <https://www.w3.org/community/solid/join>
> 
> If I click 'Sign contributor agreement' it says:
>> Your request failed because you did not confirm your affiliation.
> Please try again.
> 
> If I click 'try again' it takes me back to the join page.
> 
> I don't have any employment affiliation so have entered None and don't
> understand if there is a way to confirm this, or if it just won't let
> unaffiliated people join the Solid community group.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> PS I don't know what the 'Raised By' drop down should be so I left it as
> is. Maybe I'm not supposed to know about this, but can't see how else to
> find help. I got here by searching 'confirm affiliation' and found an
> issue about the UI from 2013 I think.
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> 

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