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Mike Frysinger posted on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:45:21 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> the front page of http://gentoo.org/ now links to a Google Calendar (see |
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> side bar). this has been around for a while, but it seems it's been |
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> more of an "underground" thing, so it's time to raise its awareness. |
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> like other aspects of Gentoo, all Gentoo developers have access to it to |
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> add their own events. anything Gentoo related may be added of course ! |
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> meetings, events, scheduled package events, etc... |
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> the access step requires a bit of help though -- simply e-mail me off |
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> list your gmail account and we can get you set up. once you have |
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> access, you may easily pass it on to other Gentoo peeps. |
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So a gmail account is now considered mandatory for Gentoo devs, at least |
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if they want calendar access? |
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What about those who might think that Google knows enough about them with |
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search and the web crawling and database correlation Google does, and |
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whatever ad serving might leak thru, and object to having a gmail account |
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on principle? |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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