gg·reciepts Vol. I — Group recipes for Google Workspace
Vol. I · 05 recipes for Google Workspace

Group settings, plated.

A small cookbook of access-control recipes for Google Groups — opinionated presets for the lists you actually run, from company-wide announcements to customer-facing inboxes . Pick one from the menu — the matrix and its caveats unfold below.

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The menu

Choose a recipe

Click any card to swap it into the spotlight below — full access matrix, join policy, and any fine-print caveats. No new pages.

Public/recipe · public-recipes-community

Public Recipes Community

Open community group where anyone in the org can read, post, and invite friends. Modeled after a casual recipe-swap list.

When to use
Cross-team interest groups, social channels (cooking, running, pets), book clubs.
Notes
Members can invite via the group link; external posting allowed so vendors/partners can reply to threads.
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The matrix · as it appears in Admin console

Access settings

Access settings
Group Owners
Group Managers
Group Members
Entire Organization
External
Who can contact group owners
Who can view conversations
Who can post
Who can view members
Who can manage members
Add, invite, approve
Who can join the group
Choose how to add people to the group
Anyone in the organization can ask
People in the organization must ask and then be approved before they can join the group
Anyone in the organization can join
People in the organization can add themselves to the group directly
Only invited users
People can join the group only if they're invited
Allow members outside your organization
Turn the setting ON to allow external people in the group.
Note: You can always add external people to groups in the Google Admin console, regardless of the external membership setting.
Submit your own

Got a recipe?

Recipes live as JSON files in src/content/recipes/. Two ways to add one — pick whichever fits how you like to write things down.

Path A · for the JSON-fluent
Open a pull request

Opens GitHub with a recipe template prefilled in the editor — fork, edit the matrix, commit, PR.

Start a draft →
Path B · for the prose-fluent
Open an issue

Describe the recipe in a structured form — name, audience, access — a maintainer translates it into JSON.

File a request →

Source · github.com/kyeshmz/gg-reciepts

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A note from the kitchen

G oogle Groups has more knobs than settings panels usually deserve. The matrix in the spotlight mirrors what you'd see in the Admin console exactly — five rows of access settings, five audiences along the top, plus join policy and external-membership toggles. Treat these recipes as starting points: copy a configuration, then taste and adjust.

New recipes can be added by dropping a JSON file into src/content/recipes/. Schema is validated at build time; everything renders statically.