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