Domain names

We will be using the following domain names for our Gmail systems:

@myci.csuci.edu for current student email
@alumni.csuci.edu for alumni email

Alumni email; project team

We had our second project team meeting yesterday. Much of it was spent on a preliminary conversation on how the alumni.csuci.edu email domain will take shape, including:

• What is the campus definition of an alum?
• Which alumni should receive Gmail accounts? 
• When should they receive them? 
• What will happen to alumni's prior student email accounts?

Meeting notes are being distributed today to the core team.

Also, the core team for the project is made up of the following campus representatives:

1. Mosinskis, Peter (project lead) (IT)
2. Aquino, Herbert (IT)
3. Berman, Michael (IT)
4. Blue, Damon (Records & Registration)
5. Craig, Kevin (IT)
6. DuBransky, Marc (IT)
7. Evans-Taylor, Genevieve (Associated Students)
8. Fisch, Neal (IT)
9. Garcia, Tania (Alumni)
10. Powell, Cris (Housing and Residential Education)
11. Rice, Toni (Student Communication)
12. Scamardo, Peter (IT)
13. Swanson, Judy (IT)
14. Whitesell, Douglas (Associated Students and student representative)

We've only just begun...

The Dolphin Gmail project just kicked off yesterday with the first team meeting.

Although the meeting was short, we covered a lot of ground, including:

• why we're going with Gmail (more storage, better features, reducing cost)
• who will be involved in the project, and their roles (to make sure we're not missing anyone important!)
• scheduling a good recurring meeting time (we'll probably meet every week, at least to begin)
• choosing our domain names

This project will likely have an intense implementation schedule; the goal is to roll out Gmail for students for the start of the fall 2010 semester. Fortunately Google has provided a fairly comprehensive technical and marketing roadmaps on which we will base our project plan and timeline.  

Choosing domain names: this seems to be pretty easy. We're creating a few DNS entries today and setting up a test domain for our pilot group. It's likely we will use "@my.csuci.edu" as the production domain. The only gotcha is that the domain my.csuci.edu is currently in use by our quasi-portal, myCI. We're going to check with our Google account rep to see if this will cause any conflicts (hopefully it won't!)

We're on our way to Gmail!