VISITOR REGISTRATION
To register your contact data, go here.
For help recalling a password, go here.
Visitors are welcome to browse about this site. If challenged for a password,
you can usually keep going if you just log
in as 'guest'. But first, please consider this:
This Trade Show site seeks to aid professional networking among Java users, but
that cannot work if you stay safely hidden and anonymous. Nor can you have any
impact on us by remaining in such a sorry state. You cannot vote on most surveys, or
edit our open web pages, or join a special group, or request custom information.
We therefore ask ALL visitors, after they browse a bit, to register their professional
contact data - just a portion of what everyone now passes out on their business card. The
process is easy and fast. To initiate it from any booth, just click on the [Register]
link in that booth's header.
Registration FAQ
When you register, we save your contact data securely under a unique but
meaningless ID number and a password you assign. The password, to us, is
really the key part. It lets you quickly prove later to our software that
you are indeed someone we know.
Why Should I Care?
Visitors who register get extra rights and trust, which in turn lets them interact
more with each other by using this web site. They can vote in surveys, for example,
because our software can ensure that nobody votes multiple times (only latest vote
counts). People who lack a known digital identity are immune from such safeguards,
so they typically get barred from voting at all.
Similar notions recur in many areas. The goal we seek is always "know the current user".
If we do, we can trust you to act responsibly on this site, and therefore can make the
site itself more dynamic, interactive, and open to its registered community.
When is my Identity Used?
A booth-holder will get a private copy whenever you specifically request
it, usually by placing an entry in that booth's GuestBook, or explicitly
signing up for some contest, joining or monitoring a project, or subscribing
to a special interest group.
Such things each demand a knowledge of your identity. Once you signal an interest,
the people leading each related VTS activity can award you with access to extra pages
in their booth, or the rights to edit them on-line, or arrange emails announcing
related future events that you'd care about. You can also get rights to download or
remotely run special executable software, or even to upload and run your own.
Are Such Rights Not a Huge Security Hole?
They could be, if registering contact data were all it took. But
posting such data is only step one of a process. Major admin rights
arise from trust, and interpersonal exchanges. Once we know and trust
you, we'll tell our software you're okay.
What About My Privacy?
We will not sell your data, abuse it, or treat it casually. Mostly, we
just want to track who belongs to which working group(s), and who cares
about them. Small privacy losses seem justified if they permit this site
to help people with common interests interact. They let us do things for its
registered members that would be impractical to do for everyone with a browser.
What If My Contact Data Changes?
To update it, just login and return to the data registry page.
The adjustments you make will not impact your unique ID, rights,
etc., but only the adjusted attributes per se. Your password can
be changed in the same independent way.
Why Does VTS Login Only Ask for My Password?
That saves you a few keystrokes whenever you visit. In our design,
your unique ID comes separately from a cookie we leave on your PC,
or (eventually) from an additional log-in field if none is found.
What If I Turn Off Cookies?
Currently, our sessions as well as our login mechanisms depend on
them, so you will be limited to public pages only.
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