[gopher] Gopherplus.org management

[James Mills]

I wholly agree ;)


James Mills / prologic

E: prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Kevin Veroneau <kevin at veroneau.net> wrote:

> I believe the port 80 version of gopherplus.org should be a fancy
> gopher2web proxy or we'll be mocked as a community for being hypocritical.
>
> For example, the Python Web development community has many unfortunate
> blogs which are not made in Python.  This has lead to some interesting
> arguments online about how some Python Web developers are hypocrites.  I
> personally made a custom blogging platform when I launched PythonDiary.Com
> to avoid this criticism...
>
> So gopherplus.org:80 should a fancy gopher2web proxy of gopherplus.org:70
> to easily showcase the gopher protocol.  So RSS feeds should be either fed
> in via a cron script, or dynamically using a mole.
>
> Personally I'd like to see a tree view of all of gopherplus.org, much
> like that Java gopher client is being built.  It would be interesting for
> people who may have never seen gopher before understand the fundamental
> advantage of gopher menus.
>
>   Original Message
> From:denis.bernard at laposte.net
> Sent:January 28, 2016 12:59 PM
> To:gopher-project at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Reply-to:gopher-project at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Subject:[gopher] Gopherplus.org management
>
> Many thanks for your offerings of hosting gopherplus.org! However it not a
> technical support I am requesting: I can host this Internet site on my own
> home server (both for 70 and 80) like I do it for my domain oceamer.com.
> Today, gopherplus.org is hosted on a commercial web site provider that
> already mirror my home server under the domain oceamer.fr. (yes, only on
> port 80!) for a cheep price. This is to prevent power or ADSL outage since
> I
> moved last year from a big city into a small village.
>
> My idea for gopherplus.org is to do something like these planet websites
> using RSS/ATOM feeds to aggregate posts from several personal weblogs. I am
> looking for somebody fluent in English to receive voluntary posts from
> Gopher users, edit these texts (mistakes, typos…) and moderate them if
> necessary. An other difficulty is about clock time: we are all living all
> around the planet, we need some rest, so this task can’t be distributed
> among several editors living in different time zones.
>
> As the goal of this new Internet site is to inform on a large scale people
> about Gopher, it is absolutely necessary to be on the port 80; it is
> necessary too to have a Gopher version of that website as a proof of
> concept. More, I think it is important that the port 80 version of this
> site
> should look like any mainstream websites. (Using graphical chart like those
> websites owned by geeks or activists could ruin our credibility!)
>
> Today, gopherplus.org is a simple static website powered by a soft I
> wrote.
> My blog engine is a replacement of Nanoblogger blog engine wrote in Bash. I
> did, in the a past, a converter (nb2gopher) to provide Gopher menus
> (translating HTML posts into plain text using the “dump” option of Lynx)
> from Nanoblogger. For the present time, I am rewriting fBlog because
> Fortran
> programming is in strong progress. I plan, in the future, to have fBlog
> playing 70 port. This is a huge task because I want to code everything by
> myself even for Markdown support. In fact, I don’t have choice  according
> there not libraries available for Fortran outside intensive computing. But
> for the person accepting to steer gopherplus.org, the choice of the
> software
> is up to him!
>
> There is no urgency, I am waiting for any offer posted to my mail box for a
> while.
>
> I am also writing an introduction what about what Gopher is that I will
> publish on this site. Soon, I will ask you to verify this text!
>
> -- deber
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