Thanks for bringing that to my attention, Achal.
It looks like you indicated at the time of your registration that you needed a visa, and at that time some fields we now require were not on the registration form. It was simply asking you to fill in the missing information before continuing.
This wasn't an intentional design decision, and since anyone who needs a visa has either already applied or is probably too late, I've disabled that validation.
As of right now, 83 people have confirmed their attendance, and as the e-mails continue this morning I expect many more. I appreciate you working around the problem, and I hope nobody was terribly inconvenienced by this.
Austin
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Achal Prabhala aprabhala@gmail.com wrote:
I thought I'd let you know that there are a few problems with your form:
- "Visa assistance" details are required by default, regardless of
whether one needs visa assistance - (without passport details the form is incomplete) - which is clearly an error
- The date fields in the "visa assistance" form which I filled out only
to get past the confirmation do not have a disclosed format, so one has to guess the format that works by trial and error.
You might have registrations confirmed faster if these bugs are fixed.
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