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From: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo calendar for tracking Gentoo events
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:32:22
Message-Id: 1268263931.3377.1.camel@keitaro.perronet.esiee.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo calendar for tracking Gentoo events by Richard Freeman
1 Le mercredi 10 mars 2010 à 18:04 -0500, Richard Freeman a écrit :
2 > On 03/10/2010 04:42 PM, Duncan wrote:
3 > > So a gmail account is now considered mandatory for Gentoo devs, at least
4 > > if they want calendar access?
5 > >
6 > > What about those who might think that Google knows enough about them with
7 > > search and the web crawling and database correlation Google does, and
8 > > whatever ad serving might leak thru, and object to having a gmail account
9 > > on principle?
10 > >
11 >
12 > Honestly, Google calendar works well enough that I'm not sure that I
13 > like the idea of re-inventing the wheel. Maybe if somebody designed
14 > some kind of open calendar access protocol that was comparable.
15 >
16 > If you don't like Google tracking all that you do, create a gmail
17 > account and don't use it for ANYTHING but Google Calendar. That will
18 > greatly limit the amount of database correlation they can do.
19 >
20 > If somebody has a suggestion for a reasonable multi-user calendaring
21 > infrastructure that has reasonably close feature parity and isn't a bear
22 > to maintain I'm sure it would be considered.
23
24 that's called caldav. There's at least one opensource server that is
25 working decently well with evolution although it's in php.
26
27 --
28 Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
29 Gentoo

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