Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Use the Sign Up page to create a new account or use your SDN (Sun Developer Network) account.

If you're trying to sign up and see the error message, "DUPLICATE_USERNAME: Username already exists in registry," there could be two causes:

• You entered an SDN username and password on the Sign Up page. SDN members don't need to create a new account. Just exit the Sign Up page and login with your SDN username and password.
• You don't have an SDN username, but you're still seeing the error message. In this case, you've entered a username that's already being used by another user. Try another name.

For more troubleshooting tips on registration and login, see Troubleshooting Login and Registration Issues.

For this beta release, project creation is by invitation only. If you have received an invitation email, click the link in the email body. You will also be able to send three invitations to friends and colleagues to enable them to create their own projects.

If you've been invited to create a project, for the first project, you need to click the link in the invitation email. For subsequent projects, you log in and go to either My Page or the Projects page, where you click the CREATE PROJECTS button. For more information, see Creating a Project.

If you want to get involved with a project, you can do a couple of things.

• You can click Watch This Project on any project's project page and become a project member with limited, observer status. The project and its forum info will then show up on your My Page.
• If you want to get involved as a developer, start connecting with other members of the project in the project's forums or mailing lists and get to know how the project is being worked or managed. Once you get to know everyone, try asking one of the project administrators for a higher role in the project like Software Developer or Content Developer.

You need an invitation only if you want to create a project. We are doing this to keep things a little more controlled during the Beta. You don't need an invitation to register on the site and get involved with an existing project. Just jump in and get going. One way to get an invitation is to get to know some of the project admins for the existing projects. Everyone who got an original invitation also got extra invitations to give out. If you think you have a really great project that could be hosted on kenai.com, you can also send an email to kenai-admin@sun.com describing what kind of project you want to host here and requesting an invitation.

There's currently no automated way to send out emails to all the folks you want to invite to join your project. You have to create and send that email yourself. After your friends get the email, here's what they do:

1. Sign up for an account on network.org.
2. Send email to you with the username they used when signing up.

You can then open your project page, click Manage This Project, and, on the Members tab, add them to your project and give them appropriate roles in the project. For more information, see Managing a Project.

When you change your email address in your Profile Settings (as described here), emails are sent to your old email address and your new one. For the change to show up in your user profile, you must verify the change by clicking the link in the email that is sent to your new address.