[Qgis-psc] Google

[Tim Sutton]

Great, thanks for the update.

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 9:34 PM Marco Bernasocchi <marco at qgis.org> wrote:

> Hi All, I dont think that this wil impact us. as I already suggested some
> months ago, we are registered as association not striving profit in
> Switzerland and have been accepted by the Stifter-helfen.ch
> which is the swiss TechSoup Global's regional arm.
>
> Thanks to that we can apply for a google workspace for non profits.
>
> I'll follow-up on that and let you know at the next PSC meeting.
>
> Cheers
>
> Marco Bernasocchi
>
> QGIS.org Chair
> OSGeo.org Board member
> OPENGIS.ch CEO
>
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2022, 22:34 Tim Sutton, <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Gary and Richard
>>
>> Yes this is going to affect us. In my company we also have the legacy
>> Google Apps for Domains. I believe we have around 6 months to make an
>> alternative plan of:
>>
>> 1) Buying a subscription for each QGIS.org email account (probably we
>> would need one per PSC member who are the only ones actively using such
>> accounts I think.
>> 2) Migrating to another platform for email and cloud storage
>>
>> For email I reckon we could probably ask OSGEO to see if they can support
>> us. For cloud storage we would need to migrate content over to another
>> platform (or git could be nice, I don't think there is much in the way of
>> private content in the cloud storage). There was a previous initiative to
>> look at NextCloud but there was no plan to manage the migration
>> systematically. I can say from using NextCloud in our company for some
>> years that it is pretty good for file sync but pretty bad for collaborative
>> editing. Simpler would be to switch to Syncthing for file syncing, which we
>> use a lot and works very well and some markdown collaborative editor like
>> https://hedgedoc.org/ for communal editing. Hedgedoc seems really great
>> except when I tested it I could not find a way to create folder structures.
>>
>> Anyway, thanks for the heads up Richard, let's see what others in the PSC
>> wish to do....
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 7:38 PM Gary Sherman <gsherman at geoapt.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I’ll defer to Tim for that answer—I haven’t been involved with that in
>>> years :)
>>>
>>> -gary
>>>
>>> > On Jan 25, 2022, at 10:36 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde <richard at duif.net>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I did not mean the mailing lists itself, but the google admin
>>> interface in which we 'define' the mail groups like 'admin at qgis.org'
>>> etc and the psc mailing adresses etc etc
>>> > See screenshot
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> >
>>> > Richard
>>> >
>>> > On 1/25/22 20:17, Gary Sherman wrote:
>>> >> In the beginning, all of the mailing lists used Mailman. I think most
>>> are still are. You can view the list here:
>>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/
>>> >> If a mailing list isn't shown on that page, I don't know
>>> what/where/how it's implemented.
>>> >> -gary
>>> >>> On Jan 25, 2022, at 10:08 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde <richard at duif.net>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Hi Tim/Gary,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I'm not sure if this is for us, but here (in dutch, but feel free to
>>> use google translate ;-) )
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> https://tweakers.net/nieuws/192254/google-stopt-met-gratis-legacyversie-van-g-suite-zet-gebruikers-naar-workspace.html
>>> >>>
>>> >>> they are talking about Google stopping with the G-suite.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Is that what qgis is using for mailinggroups etc etc?
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Did you (or Gary?) ever receive a mail for this.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> OR are we just not using that? Then please feel free to ignore my
>>> mail ...
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Regards,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Richard Duivenvoorde
>>> > <Screenshot-20220125203238-1413x929.png>
>>>
>>>
>>
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>>
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