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

[Alex Kozak]

FWIW I think Google has more guts and resources than your average university
legal department.

I don't personally have any issues with migrating school communications
"into the cloud". We're presuming schools administering communications was
safe and secure in the first place. And it has the potential to increase the
collaborative tools available to your average student. I was going to make a
snarky joke about Google Buzz, but now that I think about it, it could be
cool if by default you were exposed to a Buzz steam of your peers.

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Oliver Day <oday at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:

> It could also centralize legal compliance.  Either the government or
> organizations like RIAA could serve papers to a single entity for
> multiple schools.  It seems like the way of things to come though since
> financially Google only has to offer the service for a price lower than
> the cost of employing a few IT people (administrators and the like).
> These days that is bound to be very tempting.
>
> O
>
> Michael Lissner wrote:
> > 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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