From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NppNm-0004zq-9h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:53:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 481D5E0E42; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:53:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f172.google.com (mail-qy0-f172.google.com [209.85.221.172]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74D52E0DEF for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:53:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk2 with SMTP id 2so491371qyk.1 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:53:15 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: antarus@scriptkitty.com Received: by 10.220.80.78 with SMTP id s14mr305971vck.26.1268340794818; Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:53:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201003111132.22476.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <201003100745.21823.vapier@gentoo.org> <20100311061000.0ea722bd@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> <201003111132.22476.vapier@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:53:14 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: cfd62bd97f33ebfa Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo calendar for tracking Gentoo events From: Alec Warner To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Jeroen Roovers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: d1b538fb-cc21-4f9f-8ed2-8cae8e3b7dc2 X-Archives-Hash: 01d5ffb4dbfdae705f8d277beb528173 On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 11 March 2010 00:10:00 Jeroen Roovers wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:42:43 +0000 (UTC) Duncan wrote: >> > So a gmail account is now considered mandatory for Gentoo devs, at >> > least if they want calendar access? >> > >> > What about those who might think that Google knows enough about them >> > with search and the web crawling and database correlation Google >> > does, and whatever ad serving might leak thru, and object to having a >> > gmail account on principle? >> >> That's OK. I'm a Gentoo dev and I won't be "subscribing". Fair enough? > > you dont need an account to "subscribe" (read/track updates). =C2=A0anyon= e can do > that anonymously. > -mike > I think Duncan's point is that in the Social Contract it talks about how Gentoo should only rely on open source software. The question is does this apply to our 'product' or does it apply to everything. Certainly users can continue to use Gentoo without using this calendar at all; however if it becomes some kind of integral part of Gentoo (which I doubt it will) we will have to look at switching to something else (which is easy given the many export formats of Google Calendar :)) I am all about trying out new things and working out the details after the fact;so +1 to the calendar as well. -A