[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo calendar for tracking Gentoo events

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Mike Frysinger posted on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:45:21 -0500 as excerpted:

> the front page of http://gentoo.org/ now links to a Google Calendar (see
> side bar).  this has been around for a while, but it seems it's been
> more of an "underground" thing, so it's time to raise its awareness.
> 
> like other aspects of Gentoo, all Gentoo developers have access to it to
> add their own events.  anything Gentoo related may be added of course !
> meetings, events, scheduled package events, etc...
> 
> the access step requires a bit of help though -- simply e-mail me off
> list your gmail account and we can get you set up.  once you have
> access, you may easily pass it on to other Gentoo peeps.

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?

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