Among gandi's (http://gandi.net) wonderful features are roundcube and a sizeable mail quota. I like gandi even more now.
Tom On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Thomas Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for all of the wonderful replies! It looks like I'll eventually > set up some of these on my own server. > > And I did mean Google Tasks. In Swedish it's Google Lists. I like that > you can associate dates with the tasks so that they show up in your > calendar as incomplete or completed. > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Jan-Christoph Borchardt > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Tom, > > > >> I'd like to move away from my wonderful, integrated, proprietary, > >> web-based Google Services Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Lists and > >> Google Docs. I ask for suggestions of what to move to. > > > > Great plan! I just finished doing the same, more or less. :) > > And sorry in advance for the linkdump, just trying to help. > > > > > >> Email is probably the most important as my whole life is in there. > >> Proprietary Google searches lead me to > >> http://www.gnumail.org > >> http://www.runbox.com > >> http://www.fastmail.fm > >> These don't seem any cheaper than running a mail server on a virtual > >> private server, which would be more flexible. I don't think that would > >> be too annoying either. Thoughts on that? > > > > I haven’t heard of those at all. At the moment, I have a domain at > > https://gandi.net/ > > They use Roundcube as frontend, which is awesome but unfortunately has no > > own hosting service: http://roundcube.net/ > > I am going to move over to my account at http://tuxfamily.org but the > > domain is still at Gandi. > > > > So, what you want is probably a mail account at https://riseup.net/ (big > > thanks to Parker for recommending them to me again!). But I don’t know > > about their exact approval criteria. The sole reason I am not using them > > is that they only have SquirrelMail and IMP which I am both a bit sick of. > > :) > > > > By all means let me know how it works out if you’re going for them. > > > > > >> There are a bunch of desktop calendar applications, and I'm sure some > >> of them are more awesome than Google Calendar. How does one sync them > >> across computers and version/backup them? My inclination is to use git > >> on a plain text calendar file if I'm not satisfied by the more > >> conventional approaches. > > > > If you plan on using git, you might want to look at > > http://sparkleshare.org/ – it is basically a frontend for git in the style > > of Dropbox (made by an awesome GNOME guy). You can sync to > > http://gitorious.org as well as GitHub and your own server. > > > > For public events, you can do as I do and use http://grical.org/ > > They have groups, I made one for me and add any event I plan to go to there. > > > > > >> I *love* Google Lists for entering school assignment due dates, but > >> it's currently very closed, with no importing or exporting. It may be > >> less useful once I graduate in May as I'm likely not to have > >> assignments due every day, but some more advanced equivalent would be > >> wonderful. Does anyone know of an equivalent for this? > > > > I have not heard of Google Lists, do you mean Google Tasks (in Gmail)? > > Currently, I manage any personal events or todos by just putting them in > > an EtherPad. I have an account at http://titanpad.com/ , an awesome > > EtherPad instance hosted by 3 Debian guys. You can lock the document up > > with a password so everything’s cool. > > > > > >> I don't use Google Docs much except for short-term collaboration with > >> mortals, and I don't mind using it that for situations like that. For > >> other situations, git and ssh is better. And I can use Gobby for > >> brainwriting. > > > > For any kind of text collaboration, EtherPad is way superior to Google > > Docs (the document part). It does not need login, has a dead-simple and > > beautiful interface, integrated chat, nice colors to see who wrote what > > and can export to free formats. So here as well, http://titanpad.com/ is > > the way to go. > > > > > > If you need anymore freedom; I currently build a directory of free and > > open web services at http://libreprojects.net/ > > > > Let me know how it goes and feel free to mail me when you have any > > problems. :) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
