[Penguicon-Concom] Mind dump looking for feadback

[Jer]

Right off the top of my head:
*It would increase availability - when is the last time Google went down?
*It would allow us to stop using forwards and contain all emails to a
department for perusal in future years.
*It would make the management of email accounts and such easier for the
administrator.
*It would allow us to place our Google docs in a job-related account rather
than a volunteer-related account (meaning, all of our sponsorship stuff
won't be in Matt Arnold's Google docs, counting on Matt's continued good
will and survivability, but in the "sponsorship" account, accessible by the
manager and whoever is currently running sponsorship... etc)

These are just the benefits I see off the cuff.

On Nov 1, 2007 11:33 AM, 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
> > http://www.ibloviate.org
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-jer
jer.lance at gmail.com
http://www.ibloviate.org
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