Local Storage and creating mulitiple profiles for the same event on the same device

[cmuld3r]

hey @kyletns, can you comment on this?

What would be the way for someone to signup multiple people for one rideshare? clear cookies? or is there an easier way we could implement like a url parameter? i ask because it would be great to get the callforbernie people or staffers/volunteer callers targeting carpooling for events but they may need to sign up multiple people on the same device and right now, on the same device it will load up your existing profile and you can't create a new one for the same event.

@buddhistsforbernie and I were talking through this. seems like it could be addressed on the profile page by perhaps asking for the phone number first, then populating the profile if one exists already for the event, or continuing with a blank profile if none exists for that phone number and event. What do you think? Is this a paradigm shift?

[kyleschmolze]

Hmm! I think that first we should ensure that we need it. Have we talked to volunteers who need this, and are signing up people on the same device? We need each driver / passenger to have a phone, because we're texting them, so how much worse is it to ask them to sign up on their own?

If we are sure we'd need it, then we're talking about being able to "sign out" of an account, without deleting it. That's not so crazy, but of course then we'd need "sign in", and basic auth in general. I love the idea to just ask for someone's number, but we can't then give them write access to someone's account just for getting the number correct, so we'd need to either text them a code, much like a 2-step auth system, or text them a shortlink which logs them in.

I wouldn't call it a paradigm shift, but it's not suuuuper simple to build, either. It's probably one we'll need eventually, but do we need it now?

[cmuld3r]

Great questions. As a phonebanker myself, I'm not sure how much this will be adopted by callforbernie people and local offices calling volunteers... and it's only really an issue when targeting an event where you are signing up multiple people from the same device.

With the changes to the homepage in pull request #24 we can probably just drive people to ridewithbernie.com and have them find the events on the map. I definitely see the point about write access and how it would be especially important if we're collecting more personal info in the future.

I will ask callforbernie people and organizers to gauge their interest a little better.