On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:37 AM, C Bergström <cbergst...@pathscale.com> wrote: > Sorry to shoot and run, but I think you're trying to tackle this > problem in the wrong way. The problem isn't to drop the mail. The > solution is to change email hosting providers. As a non-profit I > believe Google hosted apps would be an option (free).
In general we try to stick to our social contract, and that means trying to avoid depending on proprietary technologies such as gmail. Now, I could see just using a FOSS-based IMAP/SMTP/POP provider, perhaps which allows things like forwarding and such, which allows us to have a copy of all our configuration and such in case we want to migrate. I'm not super-familiar with the wordpress.com model but something like that also seems reasonable - we leverage donations of hosting services but we aren't bound to anything proprietary and have the ability to migrate off. I'd REALLY like to see a FOSS alternative to Gmail (a good one, that is), and ditto for Google docs (or whatever the latest branding for that is). There is nothing magical about cloud-based services any more than there is anything magical about letting somebody else host your website. The key is to ensure that the technologies are open so that you aren't bound to a single provider. -- Rich
