[Penguicon-Concom] Mind dump looking for feadback

[Molly de Blanc]

Oooh. Well, I like g-mail's interface, but that's just me. I think the idea
is that it's an easy to organize setup and will be useful for posterity. Or
something.
FY,
Molly

On 11/1/07, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Molly,
>
> You know how one person can have multiple Gmail accounts? Well, one of
> the differences from our present arrangement would be that our
> @penguicon.org addresses would be accessed through Gmail. In the Gmail
> login screen, you'd type talentwrangler at penguicon.org (or whatever it
> is) and a password, and you could access the emails sent to that
> address through a Gmail interface. Of course, as with all Gmail
> accounts, you can set it to forward to another address, which most of
> us would probably want to do.
>
> -Matt
>
>
> On 11/1/07, Molly de Blanc <majorarcanna at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > -jer
> > > >   jer.lance at gmail.com
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> > --
> > Faithfully yours,
> >
> > molly.
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-- 
Faithfully yours,

molly.
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