Hi all — this shouldn’t affect you at all if you are a legitimate user, but today I disabled user registration on the main THATCamp site at thatcamp.org because of a recent spate of spam user registration and spam forum posts. If you want to attend a THATCamp, you can still register through that camp’s subsite (such as hss2019.thatcamp.org/). If you do not have a THATCamp account and wish to register a THATCamp, please use our Contact form to request an account. Let me know if you have any trouble!

Our thatCamp is going to be for 3 days. Can the dropdown be changed to accomplish this?

Hi there! I would like to upload the document resulting from my THATCamp Florida session. Unfortunately, I do not see the “Post” option on the Dashboard sidebar where I normally see it on WordPress sites. Any help would be appreciated!

Our camp is this Friday and i’m just now learning that many registrations have gone missing. When I heard about the first couple I figured it was user error, but now I’ve have about 10 people indicate that they filled out the form on the Register page but for some reason it didn’t go through to the THATCamp registration database.

Any idea why? It’s a bit late to do anything now, but I’m getting nervous that we’re not going to have enough food…

ritdhss2016.thatcamp.org/

The THATCamp registration template says “You should receive a separate e-mail with your login and password information,” but campers trying to register for my THATCamp aren’t receiving this information. Is there a way I can manually set their log-in usernames & passwords? The wordpress log-in page has a link for new users to register, but that takes them to the main thatcamp.org registration. Thanks!

Me again – I have registrations but I can see no Campers at this.thatcamp.org/campers/ Do I need to edit something on the template/widget side to get these up?
Thanks in advance for your help!
James

Our THATcamp DC2014 ended 7 months ago, and all was quiet until about four weeks ago I started getting notifications about these bogus new registrations pending. I get between 5-10 a day now. The names they use to register don’t match the emails, mostly @yahoo.com. I don’t want to delete the site, but I do want to close registration. It is getting tedious to mark them as spam one by one… No idea why all of the sudden our site is getting targeted, and what would they get out of joining, anyway? Akismet has filtered 431 bogus comments, FYI. Any directions would be most appreciated.

After we’ve accepted new registrants they don’t show up under the Campers tab. Our site is piedmont2014.thatcamp.org/ . In the past I think the Campers page would be populated automatically. Has that changed?

Also, heads-up: even after the Friends plugin has been disabled, the site is running frustratingly slow.

Hi all

Last Friday, we created the THATCamp page for THATCamp Belgium 2015: belgium2015.thatcamp.org/. However, the THATCamp is not visible in the list on your home page, nor in our personal “camps” page (thatcamp.org/people/ghent2013/camps/).

There were some server problems (500-errors) during the registration. Could this be related to the problem?

We are organizing a THATCamp in 2015 as part of our regular conference and will be charging a low registration fee. We are aware that the Paypal plugin only allows for voluntary payment, but is there any reason why we can’t embed the code from Paypal that would generate a payment button to allow people to register/pay directly into our account? We don’t have a site up and running so we haven’t tested this out. Just trying to find out whether this is possible. Thanks!

Anna Kijas

2014 will be THATCamp Philly’s 4th year. However, we have been having severe drop offs in attendance and pre-unconference participation the previous two years. We had our suspicions as to why, but surveyed organizers and participants to clarify why they were not coming and it was clear that many of the issues could be tied to fatigue with the unconference format. In order to try and answer these concerns and keep the event going we have decided to mix things up a bit, leaving/stripping unconference bits people liked/disliked while adding in traditional conference parts people appear to be missing.

We’re all fine with trying out this experiment this year, but it raised questions internally about whether or not it can still be branded as a THATCamp, so that is my question to the group. Below are how we are transforming things, so let us know what you think on the whole branding angle. The main concerns are with reduction (not elimination) of the self-organizing and spontaneous aspects. Not all of these changes are something outside of other THATCamps but I wanted to be complete:

-Moving from two day format (Fri/Sat) to one day format (Fri)
-Introducing a theme for the first time (TBD)
-Holding structured workshops in tracks throughout the day by pre-determined leaders
-Holding unconference sessions in simultaneous time slots with the workshops
-Adding additional networking opportunities during the day separate from sessions and workshops

There are other changes but are more on the detail side. I would like to add that the organizing group is not closed and we always encourage new people to join. With the workshops in particular, however, we have had to start planning months in advance and the vast majority of attendees show no interest in working on organizing until they arrive at the event and even then it is iffy. Last year we had a real struggle getting people to propose unconference sessions ahead of time through the THATCamp’s site or the day of.

When the participant submits the registration form, s/he is sent an email with a link to access the THATCamp Gainesville site. However, when s/he click on the link, s/he get the following error message on the website: “You attempted to access the “THATCamp Gainesville 2014” dashboard, but you do not currently have privileges on this site. If you believe you should be able to access the “THATCamp Gainesville 2014″ dashboard, please contact your network administrator.”

Meanwhile, that person’s registration form is not recorded in the system so the admin for THATCamp Gainesville can’t approve the new registration and give the user access.
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I looked up the general error message, and one post suggested the issue was browser/cache/plugin related, and another suggested going in as network admin(?) to add the user:
premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/you-do-not-have-sufficient-permissions-to-access-this-page-1#

wordpress.org/support/topic/you-do-not-currently-have-privileges-on-this-site

Any trouble shooting suggestions are welcome.