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Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of Proposal/ProjectSimpleAccountCreation

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3	3	BOINC supports multiple ways to create accounts for any given project. Creating accounts on a BOINC project via the project website hasn’t received as much attention in previous years as it probably should have. This revised process is an attempt to better capture volunteers that are visiting a project website via press releases and other forms of advertisement.
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5		At present the current system asks the volunteer for account creation information and then shuffles them off to web page to download the BOINC client software. Once the software has been downloaded the volunteer has to walk through the project attach wizard and once again the volunteer must answer questions about account credentials.
	5	At present the current system asks the volunteer to remember the projects URL and then shuffles them off to the BOINC website to download the client software. Once the software has been downloaded the volunteer has to walk through the project attach wizard and then volunteer must remember the project URL and answer questions about account credentials.
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7	7	We received a lot of feedback about the BOINC sign-up process over the years, and most of the feedback has been it isn’t as simple as SETI@Home used to be. Now that enough of the pieces are available in the client-side architecture we hope to put this issue to rest once and for all.