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

[Mateusz Viste]

Hi Kaltheat,

In fact, I think you understood the gopher "project" as something more 
than it actually is.

"gopher-project" is the name of this mailing list, but it might just as 
well be named "gopher-community". There is no project per se, other than 
gathering a community together which shares a passion for Gopher.

cheers,
Mateusz





On 01/08/2015 12:45 AM, kaltheat at googlemail.com wrote:
> 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 ;)
>
>
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