[FC-discuss] Yale switching to Google Apps / Gmail

[Michael Lissner]

I hear also that Berkeley is considering similar. Not sure if it's for
student email or just faculty, but it's becoming a big debate. In either
case, I think it's a terrible idea. The question is though, who do you
trust more, Yale/Berkeley or a (somewhat) indifferent third party?

Especially when it comes to faculty, it's important that they can
express themselves freely. Think of all the movements (free speech
movement comes to mind) that might not have come about if there was a
fear of communication being monitored.

If interface woes are the core of the problem, there are ways to host
powerful email yourself without using Google's interface (which is
undeniably great). Zimbra comes to mind, for example.

Mike


Adi Kamdar wrote on 02/09/2010 02:48 PM:
> Hey folks,
>
> The Yale Daily News ran an article today about how there's
> almost-definite talk about Yale switching to Google Apps for Education
> and using Google servers/software to host our email.
>
> http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2010/02/09/google-run-yale-e-mail/
>
> I was wondering if you guys had any thoughts or good literature on the
> issues with this (re privacy, data, costs, security, tech, law, etc.).
> For the most part, the students are overjoyed about this since our old
> email system is painful to use, so it'd be nice to address usability
> issues as well.
>
> Thanks a bunch,
>
> -Adi
>
>
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