Re: Google Groups contingency plan

If someone has all of the email messages going back to the beginning of the group in a Gmail account, it would be very easy to export them that way and then either re-host them elsewhere on the web or else put them into a long term preservation format so that people can download them and use them l

Re: Google Groups contingency plan

I think it’s premature to posit that Groups isn’t going to die. To be honest, I have been thinking along the line of your original post and wondering what would happen should Google adopt a policy change towards groups. Moreover, one cannot be certain that Groups will be perpetual. I will advise

Re: Google Groups contingency plan

Actually, after taking a look I found that there is actually a new version of Groups that is in beta (https://support.google.com/a/answer/9687393?hl=en&ref_topic=14869 ). It seems they are more tightly integrating it with G-Suit

Re: Google Groups contingency plan

> > I think python.org and Django are managed by different (legal) entities > so it doesn't make sense for Django mailing lists to use the domain name > python.org I think it's fine to share with them, if possible. As Tom, says other projects like scikit do. Tom - you didn't mention backing u

Re: Google Groups contingency plan

Hello Tom, I must commend your great foresight as we may be robbed of not only the rich content of our email communication history, our mailing list may also not be available. My suggestion will be for us to look in the direction of something open source as a stop gap between the time that we

Re: Google Groups contingency plan

> I think python.org and Django are managed by different > (legal) entities so it doesn't make sense for Django mailing lists to use the > domain name python.org That’s a good point, it was just an idea. However running mailserver can be annoying and the

Re: Google Groups contingency plan

‪On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 7:34 PM ‫אורי‬‎ wrote:‬ > > By the way, is Django a commercial entity? Why does it use the .com domain > suffix? Python uses .org, but doesn't Django use .org too? From reading the > website I see that the Django Software Foundation is non-profit. > Sorry, I meant: Pyth

Re: Google Groups contingency plan

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 7:14 PM Tom Forbes wrote: > Hello, > Given the recent worldwide situation I’ve found myself thinking a lot > about contingency plans recently. I wanted to raise a question about our > reliance on Google Groups and if we had any contingency plans if this > service was shut

Google Groups contingency plan

Hello, Given the recent worldwide situation I’ve found myself thinking a lot about contingency plans recently. I wanted to raise a question about our reliance on Google Groups and if we had any contingency plans if this service was shut down? To put it politely, it's pretty obvious that Google G