I'm curious as to why people are so opposed to this move. Cornell moved to Google's hosting last year, and it's meant a massive usability improvement - usable webmail, docs, etc, and hosting that doesn't end when you graduate. The only privacy loss is that, instead of being hosted on campus servers of unknown quality and unknown admins, it's hosted on Google's servers of unknown quality, and unknown admins. At least if you sue Google for screwing it up they can't mess with your academic record. You can always choose to not use the campus email, anyway.
(Full disclosure: I interned at Google this summer) -- Alec Story Cornell University Biological Sciences, Computer Science 2012 On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Aditi Rajaram <[email protected]>wrote: > Was going to send this out but I guess you beat me to it! I went back and > re-read the Yale thread (when this happened at Yale), and while I wholly > disagree with it - I think that even though I use Gmail, the choice is > what's important - the general reaction I've heard is "thank god, NYU's > email is terrible." Which it is - and I, like many others, forward my NYU > email to my Gmail - but that's my choice. It's also going to save the school > a ton of money (around 400k a year, apparently?) so that's a huge > motivator/NYU is cheap. > > So the CS/math department has their own emails, but they're maintained > separately so my guess is that they won't move. > > I was thinking about taking the same route as Adi and writing an Op-Ed w/ > SFC NYU about it, but I haven't really come up with any other > possibilities..what are others' thoughts? > > > On Nov 1, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Alex Leavitt wrote: > > For the general SFC crowd, but particularly interested in what the NYU crew > has to say: > > > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/passing-torch-to-cloud-nyu-is-going.html > > *Today, NYU announced that it’s moving to Google Apps for > Education<http://google.com/a/edu>, > providing cloud-based email and collaboration tools to the entire university > community. This announcement comes just weeks after New York State created > an > initiative<http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/10/im-in-google-apps-state-of-mind.html>to > bring Google Apps for Education to their K-12 schools.* > * > * > So what do y'all think? > > Alex > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > >
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