[gopher] History and future of "the gopher project"

[kaltheat at googlemail.com]

Hi,

I recently asked similiar questions in IRC (#gopherproject on freenode), but
without sufficient responds. So here again (with wider audience?):

What was "the gopher project"?
What is "the gopher project"?
How is "the gopher project" related to Debian (the mailing list runs on a
debian domain)?
What should "the gopher project" be?

I can't find informations on the purpose of "the gopher project". If it really
is a project it should have its own gopherhole.

I am kind of new to gopher and maybe these questions were already discussed
somewhere (please give me a hint in that case). But if I'm allowed to give my
two cents to the discussion of the purpose of "the gopher project", it's this:

The project should reflect the history, present and future of gopher as a
protocol and gopherspace as the usage of the protocol. Speaking of the future
this would mean that it could coordinate new developments (protocol, software,
services) and "recruiting" of new users/developers. To be able to do this sort
of things the project (as any project) needs a structure and people creating
and taking part in this structure. Maybe one can think of "the gopher project"
as a W3C for gopher (I must admit that I don't exactly know how the W3C works
and what it does).

What do you think?

Regards,
kaltheat

PS: Please correct my english (might be better to correct it in personal mails
to not spam the list with too much off-topic stuff). This would help me on
improving it ;)