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Anonymous Comment Form Doesn't Work #8

Closed kennybytes closed 9 years ago

kennybytes commented 9 years ago

The anonymous comment form still doesn't work (can be found on this page: http://www-ee.eng.hawaii.edu/~eesab/contact/).

I believe we have to confirm our email with the form provider still.

kennybytes commented 9 years ago

@felixjos: any update? does @kaleonorman need to confirm any email?

kennybytes commented 9 years ago

bump @felixjos @kaleonorman

kennybytes commented 9 years ago

This is particularly important; students can't make any comments if there is no venue for them to do so... I'd like to advertise this at the new IEEE general meeting (and continue to do so to provide our students with a voice).

kaleonorman commented 9 years ago

We'll have to migrate it to Formspree. Does anyone know how to do this?

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Kenny Luong notifications@github.com wrote:

This is particularly important; students can't make any comments if there is no venue for them to do so... I'd like to advertise this at the new IEEE general meeting (and continue to do so to provide our students with a voice).

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/IEEE-UH-Manoa/eesab-website/issues/8#issuecomment-72307953 .

kennybytes commented 9 years ago

Looks like we need to find another alternative:

http://blog.brace.io/2014/11/17/squarespace/

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kennybytes commented 9 years ago

Is there anything wrong with just creating a google form that users can submit comments to? We can set the form to notify the SAB email address when theres a new response.....

I can't remember what we discussed earlier but this may be the easiest way to get something on there...

ghost commented 9 years ago

At least as a stopgap measure, a google form is not unreasonable. We should consider that whoever is the "GApps administrator" or other responsible individual at UH will probably have access though, and move to something different afterward.

kennybytes commented 9 years ago

I can't recall - what was the original benefit of the previous system we were proposed to use? Was the concern that we needed to verify that the comments were from an actual student?

Otherwise, we could just create a form outside of the Google@UH domain which would circumvent the UH GApps administrator having access to the form.

ghost commented 9 years ago

The main thing we were focused on was ensuring the comments were anonymous and more or less directly reached the SAB.

felixjos commented 9 years ago

I've been looking at a couple of possibilities, I'll try them out then create some branches to test.

kennybytes commented 9 years ago

Cool, thanks - as long as we have something before the next IEEE meeting (Feb 18).