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Brian suggested I give more details, so here is more information ;) |
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23:36 < ferringb> antarus: why are we getting it for free offhand? |
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23:36 < ferringb> well, getting this moreso |
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23:37 < ferringb> (yes, I will look a gift horse in the mouth- it can |
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quickly become a cash-sinkhole if the horse hasn't had proper dental |
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mantenance) |
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23:37 < ferringb> or something equivalent. either way, what prompted all this? |
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23:40 < antarus> ferringb: RANDOMGUY emailed me |
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23:40 < antarus> Standard Edition is free |
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23:40 < antarus> and we are a non-profit so Educational Edition is also free |
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23:41 < ferringb> haven't heard that name in a long while |
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23:41 < antarus> yeah |
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23:41 < ferringb> presume you're refering to the user |
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23:41 < antarus> anyway we have 4 devs on 'team edition' right now |
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23:41 < antarus> so I wanted to gauge interest |
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23:41 < ferringb> team edition is wat? |
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23:41 < antarus> ferringb: individual domain users sign up but haev no |
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domain admin |
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23:41 < antarus> limited doc sharing stuff, no email, etc... |
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23:42 < ferringb> 'k |
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23:42 < ferringb> so... |
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23:42 < ferringb> why don't you go write a *proper* response to spanky |
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w/ this info instead of a freaking link? |
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23:42 < ferringb> ya lazy bastard? |
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23:42 < antarus> I'm le tired, I will nap and then fire ze missiles? |
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On Wednesday 31 March 2010 01:28:56 Alec Warner wrote: |
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>>> Currently a number of developers have engaged Google Apps Team Edition |
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>>> for gentoo.org. However Team Edition does not come with gmail and a |
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>>> subset of Team Edition users would like to host their gentoo.org mail |
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>>> on gmail. |
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>>> Activating Standard Edition is free and likely requires minimal |
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>>> configuration on dev.gentoo.org to setup. Standard Edition comes with |
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>>> Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Mail, Google Sites, Google Video, |
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>>> and probably a bunch of other stuff we could turn on. |
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>> i dont really know anything about these Google things you refer to. could you |
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>> provide URLs and/or some summary background ? |
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> Well you know about calendar since you use it ;p |
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> The corporate spiel is here. |
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> http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html |
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>> personally, i just created a dedicated gmail account and set my dev.g.o |
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>> forward to that. then i fetch the mail from gmail's pop interface. how do |
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>> these offerings provide anything over that sort of setup ? |
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>> -mike |
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> That requires giving gmail your pop password which not everyone likes. |
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> In this setup you could use your d.g.o procmail to forward mail to |
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> something like 'google-hosted.mail.gentoo.org' which would stuff it in |
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> gentoo.org gmail account and you gentoo.org account could be your |
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> d.g.o password, or something different. |
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> -A |
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> PS: I am affiliated with Google, but I don't get sales bonuses. This |
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> thread is in response to a random request I received from another |
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> developer. |
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