You cant apply without a Google account? That’s pretty lame.
EDIT: to highlight how ridiculously lame this is note how I cant apply now without doing something as ridiculous as making a new Google account only for this event. I am working remotely from another continent. I cannot log into my gmail account (an account I don’t use I might add) because it has 2FA enabled and I cannot get the code because it sends it to my phone number which does not work while I am travelling remotely.
There should be other options for 2FA you can setup going forward, like authenticator or using the Gmail app on your phone. Some cell providers allow calls / SMS over wifi now, too. There’s also might be a way to use backup codes.
I use FIDO2 security keysfor 2FA wherever I can and recommend them to everyone. I just don’t have it set up for my Google account since I just don’t use said account so never got round to it. But you are right to encourage me regardless—I should get round to it since I very likely will be forced to use a Google account again in the future and when that happens I might again be travelling.
So just to be clear: the roadblock here is that without a Google account I cannot even view the application questions. So I still wouldn’t have been able to email hello@futureforum.foundation my application. The application is just not publicly viewable without a Google account. There should be a way to configure Google Forms where a Google account sign in is not required but optional. I have set up Google Forms like this in the past for my University group where some students used other email providers. However, I’m aware Google has changed significantly in 6-8 years so maybe now it is required.
Regardless, I ended up just using some other G account of mine for it that I usually wouldn’t. So problem resolved. Note that I expressed annoyance, but I acknowledge I’m an edge case so I’ll understand if this will just not be seen as an important enough issue to fix. That said, restricting applications to only people with Google accounts is still… odd, so I guess I’d still recommend that future Future Forum applications not have this issue.
I think every EA or EA-adjacent org I have filled out half a million forms for at this point always use Typeform. This, I think, is why I’ve never ran into this problem before, despite not using my Google account for years at this point. So it might be a good idea to use Typeform instead of Google Forms in the future.
You cant apply without a Google account? That’s pretty lame.
EDIT: to highlight how ridiculously lame this is note how I cant apply now without doing something as ridiculous as making a new Google account only for this event. I am working remotely from another continent. I cannot log into my gmail account (an account I don’t use I might add) because it has 2FA enabled and I cannot get the code because it sends it to my phone number which does not work while I am travelling remotely.
Fun.
There should be other options for 2FA you can setup going forward, like authenticator or using the Gmail app on your phone. Some cell providers allow calls / SMS over wifi now, too. There’s also might be a way to use backup codes.
I use FIDO2 security keysfor 2FA wherever I can and recommend them to everyone. I just don’t have it set up for my Google account since I just don’t use said account so never got round to it. But you are right to encourage me regardless—I should get round to it since I very likely will be forced to use a Google account again in the future and when that happens I might again be travelling.
I’m sorry this has been roadblocking you—if it’s helpful, you can email your application to the team: hello@futureforum.foundation
So just to be clear: the roadblock here is that without a Google account I cannot even view the application questions. So I still wouldn’t have been able to email hello@futureforum.foundation my application. The application is just not publicly viewable without a Google account. There should be a way to configure Google Forms where a Google account sign in is not required but optional. I have set up Google Forms like this in the past for my University group where some students used other email providers. However, I’m aware Google has changed significantly in 6-8 years so maybe now it is required.
Regardless, I ended up just using some other G account of mine for it that I usually wouldn’t. So problem resolved. Note that I expressed annoyance, but I acknowledge I’m an edge case so I’ll understand if this will just not be seen as an important enough issue to fix. That said, restricting applications to only people with Google accounts is still… odd, so I guess I’d still recommend that future Future Forum applications not have this issue.
I think every EA or EA-adjacent org I have filled out half a million forms for at this point always use Typeform. This, I think, is why I’ve never ran into this problem before, despite not using my Google account for years at this point. So it might be a good idea to use Typeform instead of Google Forms in the future.