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Comment by PommeDeTerre | Hacker News Reader

Needing a GitHub account to vote is quite obnoxious. It's no different than those sites which require a Facebook login, for instance.

At least give us the option of using an email address, even if it may mean implementing this voting some other way.

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Using GitHub seems like a pretty good way to try and filter out fraudulent votes (almost impossible with email address logins) - and it isn't really that much of a imposition given the nature of the conference - if you want to contribute pull requests to Django you need a GitHub account these days anyway.

> if you want to contribute pull requests to Django you need a GitHub account these days anyway

technically, you don't.

Hey, thanks for your opinion. We try to keep it simple. We know that when someone has a Github account he's probably a programmer.

Really? Is there a test? What if I like Mecurial and use BitBucket? Does everything have to be based/hosted on Github?

I use Bitbucket too, but get over it, it's just a poll, not that this breaks your workflow or prevents you from using tools or anything. It's a throwaway use case.

It's not a bad approach, but I wonder if the talks oriented toward novices who may be new to Python/Django or programming in general are willing to sign up for a GitHub account (or even know what it is) to vote. Maybe this should be taken into consideration as these vote totals will probably trend lower than other talks.

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