[Penguicon-Concom] Mind dump looking for feadback

[Molly de Blanc]

Now I shall reveal how un-tech savvy I am.

What do you mean by Gmail would host our e-mail n'at?

FY,
Molly, who can think of about five different things that phrase may mean.

On 11/1/07, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think everybody knows by now that I'm a big promoter of online
> services, so coming from me, it means a lot that I don't see any point
> to this. I've used Google Apps for Domains on my own domain, not
> because I needed it, but just to look at what it can do. It's didn't
> see anything useful that isn't already provided by our individual
> accounts in Google services.
>
> I wouldn't oppose getting this, but I don't see how anything would
> change. Maybe it's because we don't like our existing mail hosting
> provider?
>
> -Matt
>
>
> On 11/1/07, Jer <jer.lance at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Personally, I think this is a great plan. Gmail's interface is easy to
> > use... Google Apps for Domains is pretty feature-full, and this would
> allow
> > us to set up calendars and everything else for the key members of concom
> to
> > help when setting up meetings and such.  Most importantly, it's a
> > high-availability solution that we have a significant amount of control
> > over.
> >
> > -jer
> >
> >
> > On Nov 1, 2007 1:58 AM, Ron Blanchett <muteid10t at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > How would everyone feel about having a Penguicon branded Google email
> > account?
> > >
> > > Does anyone on the Board have any objection to running our mail this
> way?
> > >
> > > Google would host all of our email account and we would still host our
> > > mailing list.
> > >
> > > The email would be hosted via Googles Apps for Domains and Penguicon
> > > already has an account for this with Google, we just don't use it
> > > right now. In case no one knows what this is it is a service that
> > > Google offers for organizations they give you GMail, Docs, Calendar,
> > > Chat, & a few other features that can all be branded with your domain
> > > and images. The form of this service as we currently use it is free
> > > but Google also has a more feature full version with some advanced
> > > option that is a pay service (we don't have the pay service).
> > >
> > > Now that we are on a new webhost setting up our mail this way will be
> > > very trivial. I just want the opinion of every Especially the Board
> > > before I go ahead and set things up this way.
> > >
> > >
> > > -Ron Blanchett
> > > Penguicon Webmaster
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> > > concom at penguicon.org
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> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > -jer
> >  jer.lance at gmail.com
> > http://www.ibloviate.org
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-- 
Faithfully yours,

molly.
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