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Re: Yale outsources email to Google

<quoting name Joseph Esposito" date "2010-02-16" time "17:37:42
-0500">

> The outsourcing trend continues:
>
> http://j.mp/968Sov
>
> Yale is outsourcing its email service to Google.  The question 
> I have is, How long before all enterprise applications 
> (including those for higher ed) are outsourced?  I would think 
> soon.

There was a good discussion of this topic on the Students for 
FreeCulture mailing list last week which turned into an 
unconference session during the SFC conference this past weekend.

See: Forum view of the mailing list discussion:

http://freeculture.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=290&start=0&S=84f283589939efbbcf78372c98f871f4

Unconference notes:

http://wiki.freeculture.org/FCX/Unconference/Google_eating_or_providing_University_services

Summary: Cheap (almost free) is great, but privacy is important. 
Lack of FERPA is troubling. Why don't universities create their 
own "cloud" email service for themselves. Central hosted email 
for all of the CIC, for example.

Definitely good discussion/thinking happening from the Students 
for FreeCulture. It is wonderful seeing undergrads concerned 
about these issues, in my opinion.

Best,

Greg Grossmeier
Copyright Specialist
University of Michigan Library
http://lib.umich.edu/copyright

Open Education Specialist
Open.Michigan
http://open.umich.edu

grossmei@umich.edu