<p dir="ltr">Some user feedback on persona.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Flore Allemandou" <<a href="mailto:flore.allemandou@gmail.com">flore.allemandou@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Apr 18, 2014 4:31 AM<br>Subject: [Webmaker] Webmaker events and persona identification<br>
To: <<a href="mailto:mozilla-webmaker@lists.mozilla.org">mozilla-webmaker@lists.mozilla.org</a>><br>Cc: <br><br type="attribution">Dear webmakers,<br>
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Last week-end, I was hosting a webmaker workshop during an event. Like I did a few times already. And this time, I was struck by how strenuous it is for people to have to create a persona account to save their makes.<br>
Let me explain, the venue provided us with a dozen public computers (nice). We began the workshop by remixing makes and then I had to explain how to create a persona account to save their makes:<br>
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* Enter your personal email address<br>
* check your email, preferably in a private browsing window (but that is not possible with gmail)<br>
* do not store the password<br>
* click on the link to activate the persona account<br>
* choose a password (not your email's password)<br>
* disconnect from your email account and clear history<br>
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It can be very hard for a lot of people: don't know their webmail address, don't know their password, afraid of being hacked, getting discouraged.<br>
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If the maker party lasts one hour, a lot of time is lost because of that.<br>
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It's really a pain compared to the simplicity of the webmaker tools.<br>
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I thought of a workaround but it would be better if we had an official way to do this. Like a sandbox or something...<br>
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* Create an email address for the event (e.g. <a href="mailto:jdll2014@mozfr.org">jdll2014@mozfr.org</a> for my event) redirecting to the maker party host email.<br>
* use this address to create a persona account with a simple password<br>
* connect all computers to this persona account and provide the password to the public.<br>
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Advantages:<br>
* I know that several computers can be connected to the same account at the same time<br>
* No need to spend time explaining how to create a persona account.<br>
* no security risk of connecting to a personal email on a shared computer<br>
* Easy to save makes<br>
* all makes made during an event are grouped<br>
* people can create their own account at home and remix their makes<br>
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Inconvenients:<br>
* We need to create a lot of email addresses that won't be really used<br>
* We don't explain people how to create persona account (yeah I know...)<br>
* People can change the password on <a href="http://persona.org" target="_blank">persona.org</a> (stupid, but hey...)<br>
* We have to change this password at the end of the event (to avoid the former point)<br>
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What could be done (I don't know if it's easy or even possible): Webmaker could provide maker parties with addresses or login, or a way to create account easily on <a href="http://webmaker.org" target="_blank">webmaker.org</a>. Anything to avoid the awkward part about persona wasting time on a maker party.<br>
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What's your experience on that?<br>
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Best regards<br>
<br>
Flore<br>
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